The Christian and the Taxpayer

Attack on one of Rand's theories, but only so that I can built my own on her remaining premise: That all evil comes from the irrational.

I also compare the Tea Party in the US with a similar phenomenon in Germany.



Rand's primary theory about the nature of the two categories of mystics:

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/conservatives_vs_liberals.html



Exposing leftists video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRc5ykp6UKg



Glenn Beck at Katie Couric

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRohgYwzRMU



Ann Coulter on BBC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aiHbUplz3k&feature=fvst



And I used this vectorgraphics image of Jesus on the cross:

http://www.vectorportal.com/subcategory/168/JESUS-ON-THE-CROSS.eps/ifile/9060...

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[WarVideo]

Great topic and great issue, I think the book to read again is For the New Intellectual. She doesn't talk about the mystics of spirit or of mustle, but of the attilla and the witch doctor and why they both need each other. And why the witch doctore must resort to censorship in order to survive.

"Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries."

[john42t]

@WarVideo "For the new intellectual" is the only one of the regular non-fictional books I haven't read yet (there are also the complete essay collections which might be worth looking into). But the attila / witch doctor relationship is fairly obvious, at least the main point she's likely to be making.

[mrarcher857]

Japan's success was partly because of tribalism in my view, the clan loyalty or 'ie' being transplanted onto the corporation, leading to a fanatical work ethic but political corruption.

[qtutoringhelps]

@john42t

"... is this to small families or large clans?"

You are directly bonded to your immediate (parents) family and perhaps to a lesser extent your extended family, but nationalism is very strong there and the state is viewed as an extension of the family.

[john42t]

@qtutoringhelps By the way, the famility bondage, is this to small families or large clans?

[john42t]

@qtutoringhelps Yes, those two factors go against freedom. I just believe that egoism eventually deals with them. Even today, the armies of workers who came from the land to the cities abandoned their families I presume? This is going to rip old traditions to shreds. And as long as winning is everything, the less corrupt bureaucrat will get ahead. It's just important that winning is everything, that is: That there is no irrational ideology.

[qtutoringhelps]

@john42t

Mainland Chinese people do not seem to mind restrictions on speaking out freely against the government insofar as their economic needs are satisfied and then some. Apart from this bizarre a-political-ity, corruption is pervasive and widely tolerated; one is seen as 'naive'/'silly' if you do not accept evil as a necessary means to 'get ahead' in life.

There's also a strong familism embedded deeply in Chinese culture that persists through adulthood and I think is crucial to state power.

[qtutoringhelps]

@john42t

"Did they live through Mao?"

Yes, under Mao, her grandparents were sent to "reeducation camps" which involved mass shaming, forced labour, and many other horribly coercive and psychologically damaging procedures. Her father still has portraits of Mao up around the home.

The problem with the contemporary (new) generation of Chinese people, and I talked to many of them, is they have no political opinions, or at least they don't/won't express them. They are apolitical...

[john42t]

@qtutoringhelps [...] there. They are Chinese I presume? Did they live through Mao? Anyway, I'm extremely optimistic for America (and the world). I believe I have enough theory together to predict that freedom will win with certainty and very soon - I explain that during the course of future videos. Of course one can never be 100% percent sure. The Western World and America in particular will change first. The internet is the key, the media bias is going to change into its opposite.