Ayn Rand Versus Newspaper ZEIT

If you want to control men, you must kill his wishes, aspirations, and everything that is holy to him. Sneer and derision can destroy what logical arguments can’t. Ayn Rand analyzed in her novel “The Fountainhead” the mechanism of authoritarianism. Amidst our freedom-suffocating crisis there are some who enjoy themselves way too much.

Elisabeth Raether smells blood. The death of capitalism is in the air. Her article, co-signed by ZEIT deputy editor-in-chief Bernd Ulrich and Correspondent for Economics Mark Schiertz, exhilarates in the face of the death of ambition, of market demand, and of hope. The title: Do I Need This? (German: Brauch ich das?)

(article) https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2020-05/konsum-kapitalismus-coronavirus-wirtschaftskrise-globalisierung
(fountainhead excerpt):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jguJM3TIehI