Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Adolf's My Struggle

An Intellect, An Erudite, An Excellent Orator, A Patriot- Jingoist , to be precise. A Genius: the Evil Genius : The appellation given to him by the World.….Yes it’s none other than Adolf Hitler.

And this blog is about the book Mein Kampf :- A single Man’s vision to redeem the collapsed Germany (in the First World War) through his National Socialist German Labor Party and make it as the World-Leader.

The book has 2 volumes :
First Volume is about his early life /His Struggle and Inception of the Party
The second volume is entirely dedicated to the Visions / Ideas/Ideals of his Party.

Ayn Rand & Hitler were ardent believers of one point ,for which they dedicated their entire life.(i.e.) Individualism : No great things in the world was done by a group ,but by a single Individual and exactly on this ,Hitler detested ,the Parliamentary form of Goverment and Rand wrote all her novels about the greatness of Individualism.
About the book : The Human Events, a conservative magazine said this as 2nd most Harmful book of the 19th and 20th century !

  • Hitler,an Austrian born, ordinary Civil-Servant’s son, who lost his parents at an early age ,went on to become the Chancellor of Germany for 13 years (1933-1945)
  • An avid reader ,who believed in the words “ Reading is not an end itself but a means to end “ . He learned from the others’ mistakes (through books) and implemented the learned lessons in the salvation of Germany. He analyzed each and every issue from top to bottom and determined to learn from it.
  • He hated/loathed/detested/abhorred Marxisim (Communism) and Jewism to an extent ,which lead to the killings of 60 lacs Jews ,Holocaust. It was an attempt to completely wipe the Jews’ race / religion. Throughout the book, he says that Jews furtively make every attempt to destroy not only the Germany but also the entire world to rule the World, though no concrete citation has been made as whether any Group was carrying such an massive operation stealthily. His aggressiveness against Jews cannot be described in a single paragraph ; To get the feel, you have to read the entire book.
  • He says his race (German People) is the Superior Race : Aryans, the ones who are born to rule the world. About Negros “Just because they are look like anthropoids ,they cannot be considered as Human” . He tries to substantiate it by “Though Pug(Hutch ad dogs J) and Doberman (not an exact one !) are dogs, they are not same”. Likewise all humans are not same. Only imbecile Jews say that ”All humans are equal” because they don’t have the ability to think !
  • He had a clear cut idea about all : Whom they need to protect / How to educate them / How to train them in military / Who were there allies and enemies and successfully executed almost everything ,he had devised, when he was in Power .

There are so much things that can be written about this his Believes / Ideals / Values but it cannot be done in this single blog.

One thing I personally learnt from this Book is : Read ,Read ,Read & Learn, Learn, Learn from it and Use it in your life !

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Ayn Rand's

More than 2 years! I have heard people talking about this book / blogging about this book / discussing about this book so fervently. There was never a single person who decried this book .Everyone gave a perfect 10 out of 10 .All these piled up my curiosity to get my hands on this book !
Ok no more suspense; it’s the Superlative Novel “The fountainhead” by Ayn Ryand.
I lived on this novel, for the past two days, completely immersed, imbued, inebriated on its 670 pages!
Ayn Ryand – The Writer – I would strongly recommend to those ,who want a carrier in Film Direction/Photography , to step into the art of film making by start reading this novel. She brilliantly portrays the scenes, characters and every minute detail with such a precision you would never imagine! If you just grasp the scenes she describes and blindly try to photograph what she had said, surely you would beat PC Sreeram of Kollywood ,hands down ! (Sorry I can’t recollect Hollywood biggies’ name now) .To write a novel of such intensity and content, she should have thought about the concept alone for more than 2 years (!), if my guess is right.
The characters of the novel : Howard Roark,Peter Keating,Dominique Francon,Ellsie Toohey ,Gail Wynand are so real for me after 2 days of head-to-toe indulgence ! I could see /feel, how MANLY Howard Raork is (Just to say this name alone, I feel a sense of pride /insolent-ness of the character),how GORGEOUS Dominique Francon is ,how INCOMPETENT Peter Keating is , how CLEVER Ellsie Toohey is,how CUT-THROAT person Gail Wynand is ! 
There are lot of things I admire about each and every character of what Ayn Rand has portrayed. Their peculiarity,curtness,rudeness,the types of words they exchanged,intellectual speeches .
I noticed some words she used exhaustively throughout the book : gay,reproach,impertinence,insolence,bromide,presumptuous.
I guess she prefer lean people to fat ones. All of her characters are lean! 
The comfortable way of relaxing oneself,according to her, is lying on the floor using support of elbows.
A man can have his own identity through what he does: His profession.
But one thing is clear, no one can live the characters she visualized, let alone fictional ,thanks to the queerness associated with every character but one can listen to the author’s word through her characters’ mouths .That’s worth a million dollar.May be much more than that !!
Individualism & Collectivism is the core-concept of the book. Individualism is nothing but Individual, who thinks of his own and creates things of his own- a Creator.Collectivisim is nothing but group of people .who don’t give a thought about themselves but about others as a group, to run after the word PRESTIGE for the want of appreciation,recognization,money,pride etc. 
I’m tempted to write briefly about the contents but I’m afraid it would take me 3 full days to do that  :( 

I’m planning to read it as many times as possible, to understand the new meaning or any overlooked inner-meaning on my first perusal. For those of you who haven’t read this book, Save your Soul ,read this novel, before you feel that you missed something invaluable in your life (i.e.) This book !