The Fountainhead

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you let others decide for you?"

As two men on the extreme sides of conformity and independence, it is hard
for Keating to understand how someone could be so sure of himself, whereas
it is incomprehensible for Roark to believe that Keating could have so
little self-assurance and such a lack of resolve regarding the decisions he
chooses to make. In this regard, Howard Roark is greater than Peter Keating.
Often times in world affairs, smaller nations adhere to a state of
Finlandization; they buckle under the pressures of a larger nation because
they lack the strength to strive for independent thought. Howard Roark, is
a man who refuses to succumb to that greater entity and is able to think
and judge for himself.

Egotism is defined as an exaggerated sense of self importance. Often
times, independence and conformity play a very large part in egotism.
Whether a man is a conformist or non- conformist, he is affected to some
degree by his own egotism. Is ego, then, harmful or ...

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