• • • The hero of The Fountainhead on the Harlem Shake 
Sarah Nardi, Chicago Reader Altruism  |The Fountainhead  |Individualism  |Image  | Several weeks ago, when an Internet meme swept the nation, we believed we were presented with the work of an individual creator, a prime mover from whom the imperative “Do the Harlem shake” had risen like the first tall building to punctuate the sky. Now we know that the song’s purported creator, a DJ known as Baauer, is a man of borrowed vision. He is a second hander, feeding from the work of others.   Published: 2013-03-12