There is no safety net. The safety net is an illusion created by the socialist thinking of FDR that requires ever more sacrifice from future generations that haven't even been born yet.
The safety net is being paid for with our own slavery.
Ayn Rand's philosophy is the first in history to project life from a source of reason in its complete, consistent form. After centuries of mystic irrationality & living one's life for others it must be very traumatic for these creatures to open their eyes to the enormous fraud that has been perpetrated on man all these centuries.
What's the objection to bringing intelligence and men of the mind to Washington?
He ends "I don't blame her, you don't need a God if you believe that [that men's rational self-interests are in harmony]. What an amazing confession he makes there! He's saying, because we think that men are animals fighting over a static amount of nature-given wealth (and this in the internet age!), we invent the notion of a supernatural Being who threatens us with (imaginary) Hell to keep us animals in line!
I find it interesting that Rand's world view has suddenly emerged as a kind of alternative humanism for people on the right. And that it has happened through the sales of Rand's novels in the market, not because government & academia have pushed it upon us.
1/4 “The justification of sacrifice, that your morality propounds, is more corrupt than the corruption it purports to justify. The motive of your sacrifice, it tells you, should be love-the love you ought to feel for every man. A morality that professes the belief that the values of the spirit are more precious than matter, a morality that teaches you to scorn a whore who gives her body indiscriminately to all men - this same morality demands to you surrender your soul to promiscuous love...
“As there can be no causeless wealth, so there can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion. An emotion is a response to a face of reality, an estimate dictated by your standards. To love is to value. The man who tells you that it is possible to value without values, to love those whom you appraise as worthless, IS THE MAN WHO TELLS YOU IT IS POSSIBLE TO GROW RICH BY CONSUMING WITHOUT PRODUCING AND THAT PAPER MONEY IS AS VALUABLE AS GOLD...
3/4 ... "“Observe that he does not expect you to feel a causeless fear. When his kind get into power, they are expert at contriving means of terror, at giving you ample cause to feel the fear by which they desire to rule you. But when it comes to love, the highest of emotions, you permit them to shriek at you accusingly that you are a moral delinquent if you're incapable of feeling causeless love...
4/4 ...When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning, the nature and the dignity of love." - John Galt, Atlas Shrugged
And The Fountainhead is an amazing book. Obviously he didn't read it. Howard Roark didn't rely on anyone. He didn't even ask his friends to help him. He didn't steal, he didn't compromise his work even at the face of death. Why? because he loved it. Thats the root of Ayn Rands fountainhead. Loving ones work because it is a part of ones soul a d not giving in to the world around it.
A lot of people say Ayn Rand is soulless. I say she is just.
He obviously doesn't understand Ayn Rand. this may be long but i think its worth it
The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self-sacrifice—which means; self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction—which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good.
The issue is whether man is to be regarded as a sacrificial animal. Any man of self-esteem will answer: “No.” Altruism says: “Yes.”
There is no safety net. The safety net is an illusion created by the socialist thinking of FDR that requires ever more sacrifice from future generations that haven't even been born yet.
The safety net is being paid for with our own slavery.
justintempler 3 days ago
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The Truth about Ayn Rand slate.com/articles/arts/books/2009/11/how_ayn_rand_became_an_american_icon.html
kropotkinbeard1 3 months ago
"Zealous (enthusiastic) ideology, soulless..."
Ayn Rand's philosophy is the first in history to project life from a source of reason in its complete, consistent form. After centuries of mystic irrationality & living one's life for others it must be very traumatic for these creatures to open their eyes to the enormous fraud that has been perpetrated on man all these centuries.
What's the objection to bringing intelligence and men of the mind to Washington?
Unless fear & favor is your way
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Aynology 3 months ago
He ends "I don't blame her, you don't need a God if you believe that [that men's rational self-interests are in harmony]. What an amazing confession he makes there! He's saying, because we think that men are animals fighting over a static amount of nature-given wealth (and this in the internet age!), we invent the notion of a supernatural Being who threatens us with (imaginary) Hell to keep us animals in line!
HBinswanger 4 months ago 2
Yes, it's a fundamental choice--between the morality of life (Rand's) and the morality of death (Christianity's).
HBinswanger 4 months ago
I find it interesting that Rand's world view has suddenly emerged as a kind of alternative humanism for people on the right. And that it has happened through the sales of Rand's novels in the market, not because government & academia have pushed it upon us.
MrAdvancedAtheist 4 months ago
1/4 “The justification of sacrifice, that your morality propounds, is more corrupt than the corruption it purports to justify. The motive of your sacrifice, it tells you, should be love-the love you ought to feel for every man. A morality that professes the belief that the values of the spirit are more precious than matter, a morality that teaches you to scorn a whore who gives her body indiscriminately to all men - this same morality demands to you surrender your soul to promiscuous love...
grantsinmypants2 4 months ago
2/4 ...for all comers.
“As there can be no causeless wealth, so there can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion. An emotion is a response to a face of reality, an estimate dictated by your standards. To love is to value. The man who tells you that it is possible to value without values, to love those whom you appraise as worthless, IS THE MAN WHO TELLS YOU IT IS POSSIBLE TO GROW RICH BY CONSUMING WITHOUT PRODUCING AND THAT PAPER MONEY IS AS VALUABLE AS GOLD...
grantsinmypants2 4 months ago
3/4 ... "“Observe that he does not expect you to feel a causeless fear. When his kind get into power, they are expert at contriving means of terror, at giving you ample cause to feel the fear by which they desire to rule you. But when it comes to love, the highest of emotions, you permit them to shriek at you accusingly that you are a moral delinquent if you're incapable of feeling causeless love...
grantsinmypants2 4 months ago
4/4 ...When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning, the nature and the dignity of love." - John Galt, Atlas Shrugged
grantsinmypants2 4 months ago
I am a Randroid. And I love Obey asking us to read Fountainhead & Atlas Shrugged.
I think there should be more like him.
antinominianist 4 months ago
And The Fountainhead is an amazing book. Obviously he didn't read it. Howard Roark didn't rely on anyone. He didn't even ask his friends to help him. He didn't steal, he didn't compromise his work even at the face of death. Why? because he loved it. Thats the root of Ayn Rands fountainhead. Loving ones work because it is a part of ones soul a d not giving in to the world around it.
A lot of people say Ayn Rand is soulless. I say she is just.
CarnieKing 4 months ago
He obviously doesn't understand Ayn Rand. this may be long but i think its worth it
The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self-sacrifice—which means; self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction—which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good.
The issue is whether man is to be regarded as a sacrificial animal. Any man of self-esteem will answer: “No.” Altruism says: “Yes.”
Portions of "Philosophy: Who Needs It"
CarnieKing 4 months ago 4