I recently read The Fountainhead for the first time and my god did it blow my mind, as soon as I finished it I immediately started reading it again. Have never had a book show me, in such exacting detail, what is wrong with our world and how it happened; Atlas Shrugged goes into even better detail for the failures of society. I think a lot of people miss the spiritual aspect of both of these books, it comes down to following your life's purpose and refusing to conform to what society thinks, if more people followed this the world would be so much better off. Rand wasn't saying "oh, let's all be selfish and live like degenerates", she was saying that to truly live one must go by their internal compass, only by following that will you find that for which you seek.