 individual rights Iran Brooke the executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute and fights you to the conversation the Iran Brooke show starts now on AM 560 the answer oh welcome everybody to the Iran Brooke show and it's gonna be a special show because this is actually my last show my last time at least for now on AM 560 it's been a it's been a cool run I've been doing this for two years now almost two years and this is it this is it so I've enjoyed it I hope you have it you know it's hard to tell when you do radio if anybody's listening on the other side but but you guys have called in and you've participated and you've yelled at me and you being pissed off and so I know you're out there you know that's always that's always nice to have that kind of that kind of feedback once in a while you've even agreed with something I've said so thank you thank you Chicago thank you for all of you for everybody at AM 560 for the AM 560 family for hosting the Iran Brooke show for the last two years but you know it's it's time to move on time to try some other things and I encourage all of you who are listening who have been listening to stay in touch you know follow me on Twitter it's Iran Brooke Y A R O N B R O OK or you can like me on Facebook and you know even if you don't like me you can like me on Facebook it's at facebook.com slash Y Brooke Y B R O OK and you can also listen to my other podcast my podcast that is on that is on the internet and you can get basically go to any podcasting app any podcasting I just type in the Iran Brooke show and you can download all the episodes the new episodes I will continue to be doing podcasts we can doing continue to be doing live podcasts with audiences we're taking calls so you can participate and you can get involved and engage it'll just be online rather than live over the air like we do here on AM 560 and and let me just say I'm about to leave a long trip I'm leaving Monday for a trip around the world almost five weeks uh Japan South Korea China Mongolia Hong Kong Israel London and even South Carolina and then back to the California and during that time I'll be broadcasting live from all of those places around the world or any way I can get a dependable internet connection I'll be I'll be doing shows from all those places so I hope you listen in I hope you go to your podcast app and download download the Iran Brooke show and stay engaged but when I get back um a little bit after I get back sometime in mid-June well let's have some I think exciting announcements on the expansion of the Iran Brooke show and some new initiatives and some new things that are going on also look for a new website the Iran your on bookshow.com will be coming probably mid-June so uh the next six weeks we're going to be refiguring everything and we'll be getting come out the blocks in mid-June bigger and stronger than ever so while I will now be broadcasting live here on AM 560 anymore I really do hope you all you guys all stay in touch and stay engaged and and follow me follow me on all those different venues and all those different places social media and in the podcasting world so I thought what I do today is I really want to try to summarize kind of what I've talked about uh over the last two years and you know we've talked a lot about concrete issues a lot about news a lot about politics I you guys disagreed with me about Trump quite violently I'd say at at the Liberty Summit in in Chicago uh you know before the elections but um but I've always tried to bring it back to to more philosophical points the principles the principles on which I live the principles by which I think the principles by which I believe this country should be governed and and that I fear that both under Donald Trump and and and really under no administration in in the in the really distant past have we had a president who lived under these principles but but so what I thought today is I do is I'd like to summarize those principles I'd like to I'd like to run down those principles and and think about what would be the applications if we actually did it because if if you remember anything from the show it's not any particular thing that I said about Donald Trump about Fampasio about I don't know Black Lives Matter about any of those issues what I'd like you to remember are the principles by which I think this country should be governed the principles that animated the founding fathers the principles that led to the creation of this greatest country in human history the principles that we are losing fast losing fast out there in the political world the principles that president you know president trump never mentions obama couldn't mention bush bastardized in in you can go on and on backwards from there so what are those what are those principles and what I thought is we'd start we'd start with politics and work ourselves backwards philosophically we'd start with the political principles the principles of governing and then we'd go backwards to the principles of living so the principles as individuals because I think at the end of the day politics is just an outcome of the ideas and the beliefs and the kind of life we as individuals want to live if you want to be told what to do you love big government if you don't trust your own mind you love big government if you believe if you really believe that you are your brother's keeper and every stranger on the street corner is your brother then you're going to love big government right so when this is the only show yes I'm pretty sure that I can save this wholeheartedly this is the only show that has ever been or has been on air anytime in in chicago live or anywhere else live for that matter where these very very basic premises have been challenged you are not your brother's keeper you have a mind use it and the government is not your mother to tell you what you can and cannot do and to make you feel guilty if you don't do it all right so we are we are going to be talking about the principles so so what are those principles what are the fundamental principles that we've talked about on this show that guide that should guide our political world that should guide our politicians that should guide political decisions and yet they don't what is the role of government what is the purpose of government yeah I mean I'm I'm interested in in in your views and in your maybe telling me what you think what you think if you've been listening to the show what have you learned if you learned anything so you know calling three one two six four two five six zero zero three one two six four two five six zero zero as I said you know I love the fact that you've been calling in all these shows Sean didn't know how would have done the show without you so thank you Sean but but all of you guys thank you but calling what what what was the one principle that you took away from the Iran book show if you've been listening even if you've listened just a few episodes over the last couple of years three one two six four two five six zero zero well I hope the one of those principles is that what made the United States unique what made the United States of America unique in its founding is that it is the first the first state the first country the to be founded to be founded on a moral principle to be founded on the idea the fundamental idea that your life belongs to you it does not belong to the king to the state to the community to the group to the tribe to anybody else but you and that therefore you have an inalienable right to live your life as you see fit to pursue the rational values the you deem necessary for your life for your success for your flourishing for god forbid your happiness that government is instituted not to tell you how to live not to dictate to you how you live not to impose its will on you but government is instituted to protect you to defend you to leave you alone to prevent your neighbors from interfering with you so that you can live the best life that you can live live so that you can live you can pursue you can act free of coercion and the founders understood that the most coercive entity in human history of the individual has always been the tribe the collective government the founders were really interested in minority rights they understood that the smallest minority on earth is the individual and it is rights the individuals rights that must be protected now granted they were inconsistent about that protection they they they maintain the institution of slavery but by declaring what they declared in the declaration of independence by writing a constitution that protected individual right they made it possible for that institution to be eliminated from the face of the earth and in that sense they are the heroes of the disappearance of slavery so your life is yours government's job is to protect it that's a principle i hope you learned from this show we'll be right back after these messages 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about fake news it's gotten a lot harder to know who in the media you can trust too often reading just the headlines can be misleading you need to turn to a place that you can trust a place that gives you more than just the headlines and more than just the mainstream media spend what you need are answers that's why we're here get the latest news find out what it means and why it's important to you real news real answers join us on am 5 60 the answer i ran there was a radical thinker whose philosophical novels challenge students to reconsider their views on fundamental issues the fountainhead atlas shrug and anthem these works have become classics of american literature that never fail to engage young people and stimulate intense classroom discussion by offering these works for free to teachers the iran institute hopes to encourage greater awareness and understanding of rands stimulating perspective if you're a teacher who would like iran's books in your classroom visit iran dot org this is at no cost to you go to iran dot org today if you like what you hear on the iran brook show and want to engage more with host iran brook be sure to follow him on social media lucky for you it's easier than ever to get updates ask questions and hear answers from one of the leading minds in objectivism follow iran today on twitter at iran brook youtube why brook that's twitter at iran brook and youtube why brook you can also sign up for show updates at blog talk radio simply search the iran brook show how would you like to lose 10 15 even 25 pounds in the next 30 days well i'm about to tell you how you can do it for free right now you've probably heard of beach body or seen their workout dvds on tv like p90x insanity and 21 day fix well they just launched a beta trial of their new online video service called beach body on demand and they're inviting you to use it for free for 30 days now here's the catch in return all they want is for you to let them know what you think of their 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5 60 thank you jonathan honing for often calling in as a uh disgruntled leftist and challenging me on the thing that i uh i've been talking about so i don't know what i would have done without you and we got kim on the line hey cam how's it going came are you there we're going to lose you on 5 60 um i've enjoyed your show well i appreciate that thank you i so so so tell me what what did you like what did you what did you enjoy about the show i was intrigued by your presentation of your beliefs and your understanding and your intellectual uh pulling apart of the like the puzzle that is this life i i come from more of a religious perspective and i know that at times you know you've expressed yourself on that so much but you intrigued me so actually uh my friend and i came in and heard you speak at uh uh i forget the name of the institute is in the suburbs out there um last fall i think it was good and and i so much appreciate how you intellectually have taken the arguments and that different people present and you you know even what you were just saying today about how if you think you're your brother's keeper well that can lead to unfortunately to socialism and you've explained that in such a way that for me it's like this makes so much good sense because like i said i come from more of a religious perspective and it's helped me to formulate my my thinking in my mind so i i i'll boy i'm gonna miss you i'm gonna miss you being on at four o'clock i'm so happy i appreciate that i mean that that's perfect that you know if if i want to do anything on these shows it's to get you guys thinking you know it's to get you guys thinking in a different way to challenge your beliefs to to to really you know reframe the debate and and to make it more intellectual we get a lot of emotion out there we get a lot of people yelling at one another out there but i want to i want a more intellectual population i want people thinking for themselves about the issues that they that they face and look they they shouldn't be any sacred cows out there in spite of what these lefty tell us on university campuses and sometimes we're gonna offend each other and so on but as long as we're doing it in a way that's intellectual in the way that bronze our mind in a way that gets us thinking all of that is positive all of that is good so kim really appreciate this phone look if you've got an iphone or you've got one of those uh samsung phones i mean you can you can download my show every week it'll continue to be on there and i hope to continue stimulating your thoughts really appreciate it well thank you the one the one thing i've taken away from your show is that if you just say i'm a member of this flag or that flag republican democrat whatever that's too easy you can't just say oh i'm this i'm that they're my sides right the other side's wrong no no no it takes more stem you know more deconstruction of the argument to come to a good answer that's the biggest thing i've learned from you well i appreciate that thank you kim so in other words it's it's about thinking it's it's about analyzing it's about figuring out what these people really stand for and what do i stand for and do and how much of their agenda do i buy into it how much do i don't buy into so absolutely it's it's it's all about figuring out who you are as an individual and then do you align ideologically with anybody out there and and and the fact is i find myself and i know you guys know this i don't align with the democrats and i don't align with the republicans not if they're the party of donald trump but even the other candidates i just don't align with them i look at principle by principle or even issue by issue and i say i agree with this i disagree with this i agree with this i disagree with this and i look at the both parties and i look at all sides and like this last election i didn't vote for any of them because the fact is i couldn't get comfortable with either party in terms of representing any aspect of my views because again my view is that government government should be there to have a great police force a great military that really places america first that really pursues america's interest but what does it mean to pursue america's interest it's not some geographic area it's not that ethnic group it's not particular borders it's not wars pursuing america's interest means protecting the individual rights protecting the life and property of american citizens it means if you are threatening america i crush you i destroy you i make it so painful for you you will never do it again that's what america first form policy means it also means though that i protect and defend and respect the individual rights of americans which means the rights of an american to trade with anybody anybody in the world with no barriers with no tariffs with no taxes that suggest that i like these trades and i don't like those trades one of the reasons one of the reasons i'm so opposed to this president and his anti-trade agenda is that it's an anti-individual rights agenda it's an agenda that is offensive to the individual rights of americans that's what trade barriers are i should be up i should be able to and the government should protect my freedom to trade with anybody i want as long as i'm not an enemy of the united states anywhere i want no matter where they live and no matter what kind of trade barriers his government has imposed on him all right we've got uh mendel who wants chat about my overall agenda hey mendel how's it going uh you're rolling it's going really well and i just first started listening to your show i was very much against a lot of your ideas and then i just think i realized how radical of what you and objectivism and iran are proposing and you know you oftentimes we out we seem like we're very much alone out here listening to these ideas but you've created such a community and such a movement on am 560 on your twitter feed on your podcast um that has really coalesced so many like-minded individuals all over the world so thank you from us here in chicago for inspiring us and continuing to build a movement towards reason and rationality and happiness for for each of us as individuals thank you well i appreciate that mendel thank thank you thanks for calling thanks for calling in on a regular basis and uh for listening and yes i mean we're trying to make this an international movement in movement of individualists a movement of people dedicated to their own happiness a movement of people dedicated to their own freedom and if you want to be a part of that movement then join us join us join you know follow me in twitter follow me in facebook and look up iron rand i mean at the end of the day and this is really important at the end of the day all of my ideas all of my philosophical ideas my principles come from the writings and thinking of iron rand the the the author of atlas shrugged i mean if you haven't read atlas shrugged you're way behind man i mean everybody everybody has read atlas shrugged including many of trump's cabinet members and and and most ceo's of successful companies and you've got to catch up you got to read atlas shrugged and the fountainhead and the virtue of selfishness there's a title for you and capitalism not known ideal so please join me in reading iron rand in following me in twitter facebook and and and subscribing to my podcast uh so that we keep in touch but i yeah i mean this is this is it this is the movement for freedom hey uh skyla how's it going doing well sir how are you good good greatest moment uh from uh being on a and five you know i don't know what my greatest moment is i mean i've really enjoyed it it you know being on five sixty uh it's allowed me to interact with a lot of people who are not necessarily already my fans who don't necessarily already agree with me which is too often that's who i interact with particularly on my uh on my uh facebook and twitter stuff it it it it's broadened the scope of the of the people um and and it's presented challenges as a consequence because people don't agree with me i mean uh we had a lot of fun last year at the liberty summit where they wanted me off the stage and deported from the country because i did to uh to criticize donald trump so you know it's exposed me and and it's exposed you guys to to to call us who are not my obvious followers so i've really enjoyed it it's it's it's a lot of fun and let me be clear this is not going away so am five sixty in chicago is going away but i intend to continue to engage with these audiences with you i intend to continue to engage with audiences who disagree with me and uh we're going to continue to have fun and continue to try to fight uh to really change this world and i you know and we're going to be successful so skyler thank you for calling thanks uh for being part of this show and when we come back we've got read on the line and uh you're listening to your own book show last time this is the last time on am five sixty chicago we'll be right back after this it's been a lot of talk recently about fake news and it's gotten a lot harder to know who in the media you can trust too often reading just the headlines can be misleading you need to turn to a place that you can trust a place that gives you more than just the headlines and more than just the mainstream media spend what you need our answers that's why we're here get the latest news find out what it means and why it's important to you real news real answers join us on am five sixty the answer box news radio i'm karim mcqueen more american blood shed in the fight to retake an iraqi city from isis a spokesman for us central command says the us soldiers been killed near mosul as american allies and iraqi government forces work to drive isis out of the region that soldier died from wounds sustained during an explosion isis has been known to leave behind explosive booby traps and everything from furniture inside homes to toys and food left outside fox's jill nato this makes for three americans killed naction in iraq and afghanistan this week thousands of supporters on hand in harrisburg pennsylvania where president trump will mark his one hundredth day in office with a giant rally some of them were here as early as four thirty this morning to take part in what is expected to be a very festive evening in fact officials here expect an overflow crowd here tonight that could top ten thousand maybe even up to eleven thousand foxes kevin cork fox news we report you decide how can you get from here to there we've got the answer from the woodfield nissan dot com traffic center i'm forubus here taking a look at traffic we'll start in highland indiana where we have an accident indianapolis boulevard north of main street on the south side here hit and run sermac road westbound after state street in hensdale a new accident on den avenue at madison street also in 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need to prove superiority or is it a self-sufficient drive to pursue a creative vision independent of others needs or opinions iran addresses these questions through her portrayal of howard work an innovative architect who as she puts struggles for the integrity of his creative work against every form of social opposition it's also the story of his love affair with the woman who seeks to defeat him the fountain head is as relevant today as it was when ran first pendant the novel was also a personal landmark for rand in howard work she presented for the first time the uniquely iran hero man as he could be and ought to be order your copy today in amazon dot com the iran institute campus is an exciting online destination offering free courses on iran and her revolutionary philosophy of objectivism whether you recently picked up your first rand book or have been reading her novels and nonfiction for years a r i campus has something for you on campus you'll discover a variety of multimedia 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stock market out of control national debt domestic and global events can your retirement survive listen to grow my retirement saturday afternoons at two with bill geiger of geiger wealth management bill translates today's complex retirement issues into easy to understand steps to help you create a retirement income you can outlive this is serious stop grow my retirement saturday afternoons at two here on am 560 the answer no traditional conservative view nor the standard libertarian ones welcome back to the discussion of iron rance radical fundamental principles of freedom this is the uran brook show on am 560 the answer you know the biggest frustration of doing these am 560 shows is that they're so short you know in one hour there's only so much you can talk about particularly with all the commercials and all the advertising it doesn't even ball down to an hour it's maybe 40 minutes and how can you deal with some of these deeper ideas in only 40 minutes that that is always that has been the challenge from day one and am 560 i've tried to live with it i think a future iteration of the am 560 show is probably going to be a longer show all right we've got a read online hey read how's it going read you there hello all right i can't hear him maybe we can try him again in a little while all right read nope can't hear him all right maybe my producer can do some magic and we can come back online if we do you're there just yell out at some point or maybe hang up and and try dialing in again um would love to hear from you so political principle number one was right the fact that the government should leave us alone protect us protect us but otherwise leave us alone so i'm against regulations i'm against redistribution of wealth if you want to help other people help other people get together with your neighbors and form a voluntary society to help the homeless people you know under the bridge by the highway force everybody to participate you can't it's wrong it's wrong to use violence against your neighbor even if you believe that the cause is a good cause a good cause does not justify the use of force that's another principle that i've been talking about a good cause does not justify the use of physical force against your neighbor so argue debate discuss try to convince get voluntary buy-ins from your friends and neighbors and the people around you but you don't get a pull out a gun and you don't get to use government to pull out the gun to force people to participate in whatever scheme you're up to government should not redistribute wealth and government should not regulate wealth leave us alone that's a principle the funny fathers talked about thomas jefferson says if my neighbor does not have his hand in my pocket it's none of my business what he does what he does isn't a business or what he does is in his bedroom so leave us alone all right read his back let's see we can hear him this time hey read my phone on mute i think i uh i just wanted to say uh it's great seeing you a few weeks to go here in chicago and i'm gonna miss you uh now that i'm living here on am but i i follow you on every blog show so i appreciate that i'm still there with you i appreciate that and uh as far your question about what i what i get out of your show uh the main thing i get is is truth yeah and both the facts and your evaluations are so brilliant i really appreciate it great i really appreciate that thanks reed thanks for coming a few weeks ago to tibia into chicago and yeah keep listening we're gonna keep producing content we're gonna keep being out there you're on brook is not going anywhere if anything we're gonna ramp up production come come this summer and and certainly in 2018 you're gonna see a lot more of me whether you want to or not i guess if you don't want you can turn it off wow there's an off switch maybe the government doesn't have to regulate what we listen to and what we watch because if we don't like it we can turn it off maybe we should take responsibility over our own children and if we don't want them to watch something we turn the television off rather than have the government institute standards to tell us what our children can and cannot watch standards that are usually just pretty awful pretty awful so that's kind of the political principle political principle is the government is there to protect my rights rights i cannot have a right to other people's stuff rights mean freedoms it means you have a freedom to go out there and do what you deem necessary in order to make a living in order to live your life in order to pursue your own happiness as long as you don't violate other people's rights and it's the only way to violate other people's rights by the way is by using force force fraud fraud is a form of force by lying cheating stealing that's the only way by using coercion so as long as we ban coercion then people should be allowed to do whatever the hell they want whether we like it or not as long as they're not hurting other people and of course really what we're doing this is to protect to protect the people who really want to live a good life who really want to be rational about the choices they may want to be free so it's about freedom right the whole show is about freedom it's about freedom of the individual to live his life as he see fit without having to to succumb to the authority and the coercion and the force of the state of his neighbors anybody else and of course underlying that is really the idea of the sanctity of the individual the idea that individual life individual flourishing individual happiness is the goal of morality and we'll talk about that when we get back we'll talk about what it means to be self interested because we talked about that a lot on the show and how every human being should be self interested otherwise what's the point of living what's the point of living if you don't live the whole point of living it's to live the best damn life you can't we'll be right back after this and traffic we've got the answer from the woodfield Nissan.com traffic center I'm Farooq Basir taking a look at traffic we'll start on the south side 57 inbound we're seeing an accident between 115th and 107th street and that has the left lane block that's traffic stop and go back to 119th street also on the south side we have a hidden run accident sir mackerel westbound after state street in highland indiana we're seeing an accident indianapolis boulevard north of main street and on 55 we're seeing a center lane block is due to a large pothole and that's between webber road and veterans memorial tollways so our maintenance crews are in route to try to get that filled up and also in plain field we're seeing an accident route 30 and 119th street your weather today rainy and cold with a high of 46 degrees tonight heavy rain and a possible thunderstorm lower 42 currently it's rainy and 43 and your next report is in 15 minutes on am 5 60 the answer somewhere in america at just this moment as you sit listening to this radio show there's a young person waiting to discover iran's novels waiting to have his or her life changed by the beauty of iran's art and the logic of her ideas through aris free books to teachers program we have delivered more than three million copies of iran's books to schools in every state you can help us reach young minds today make your tax deductible contribution now at iron rand dot org slash support iron rand was a radical thinker whose philosophical novels challenge students to reconsider their views on fundamental issues the fountain head atlas shrugged an anthem these works have become classics of american literature that never fail to engage young people and stimulate intense classroom discussion by offering these works for free to teachers the iron rand institute hopes to encourage greater awareness and understanding of rands stimulating perspective if you're a teacher who would like iran's books in your 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on am 560 the answer so we've been talking about kind of the principles that i've been trying to articulate in these shows trying to convey to you guys and and hopefully in some cases have been successful if you want to call in and illustrate that three one two six four two five six zero zero three one two six four two five six zero zero but beyond the politics i really try to bring in a different approach to morality a different approach to ethics and and we said earlier i try to inculcate this idea that you are not your brother's keeper so who's keeper are you well who said you should be anybody's keeper but what you really keeper is of yourself i ran stood for a new morality a new moral code and i think in a really really really important moral code the most important moral code maybe in 2000 years that's been brought in front of humanity the moral code of rational self-interest the idea that your purpose in life should not be to live for others should not be to serve should not be to sacrifice but to live to live the best life that you can live for your sake of your own happiness so a selfish moral code not a selfish in a sense of treating other people badly but selfish in a sense of taking care of self of living a good life for oneself selfish in a sense that you are the beneficiary of your moral actions so the whole idea is to live the best life and the tool we have as human beings to live the best life that we can is our mind so if you care about your own life if you care about your own success if you care about living the best life that you can live the tool that you must cultivate the tool that you must embrace the tool that you must work hard on is your mind is your reason is your rational faculty and this is where i often get into trouble with those of your religious because faith is the opposite of reason and i rejected faith a long long time ago because of that because i believe in the human mind i believe it is our mind that learns about reality that integrates the knowledge from reality that allows us to build and create and make stuff and we've talked about this and and the only way to analyze events of the day the only way to analyze the news the only way to know who to vote for the only way to know which government policies are good and which are gone policies are bad is is reason that's the only way it's with facts it's rationally it's thinking no wait we got michael calling in hey michael how's it going hi erin fine one thing i want to express is that uh thank you for letting me talk to you for 11 times and uh and our pleasure i think i've ian ran uh it's probably the only person uh in the world they say right to life if you're a church the government institution they can say those words right to life yep nobody republican democrat socialist etc no they haven't earned it they only the only people who could historically say it with the founding fathers and the kind of the the the people who set the founding fathers up like john lock and other figures in the enlightenment but but really since the founding or certainly since the early 19th century uh very few people have understood what the right to life means and have understood what kind of uh what that entailed what that required and what kind of government and what kind of what kind of life as you as an individual then entailed and and what kind of government that entails i'm going to miss you this is my 11th last time i've been be able to talk to you i'm very sad day for me uh i've been a follower since 1963 wow wow better book the first books back then and i've contributed to the ian ran since 85 so i really appreciate that well hopefully we can get you to listen to the podcast on on on your phone or something like that thank you i really appreciate it thanks for listening thanks for calling in thanks for calling today and and i really again i really appreciate all of you listeners and all of you've called in you know shon hasn't called yet i'm a little worried about that but um but really uh thank you all that you know you've made this a lot of fun so as i said you know self-interest as i ran understood it not just as i ran as in reality self-interest requires one to use one's mind if you want to live a good life you have to think you have to use reason you have to be rational altruism on the other hand what people assume that altruism means being nice to people altruism actually means sacrificing for others it means being self-less it means the exact opposite of being self-interested it means living for the sake of others and that cannot be rational it cannot be right that i exist as a biological entity in order to live for some other biological entity i exist in order to live for myself i exist in order to make the most of my own short existence my own life so being a sacrificial animal i don't accept that as a standard for anything human beings are not sacrificial animals and so altruism is evil altruism is evil you can't have rational altruism or the altruism the idea that the individual should live for the sake of other individuals or for the group or for the state that moral idea that the individual life is not an end in itself that the individual's life is not the ultimate value that his own happiness is not the ultimate goal that's an evil ideology that's a bad ideology i don't accept altruism of any kind if that's what altruism means and look that's what it means that's what's philosophers now philosophers is to find altruism is meaning living for the sake of others i don't live for the sake of anybody i live for my own sake i have a lot of people around me i have a lot of friends i have a wife that i've lived with for 35 years i have kids but i don't live for them i live for myself oh shan's here we'll get him right after the break mark your calendar objectivist summer conference 2017 or okon 2017 for short it doesn't look like shan's lit up on my screen the conference will be held at this 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guys all right we've got shawn not the shawn but a shawn hey shawn how's it going shawn have you you got yourself on mute or something oh hey uh you're asking you hear me yes i can hear you now oh it's a job not that shawn oh john okay i don't know it's on my screen it's a shawn why are you leaving us i'm you know i'm leaving because uh basically a m5 60 won't pay me to stay and um you know so far i paid them in order to do the show and there's only so much so much money i can spend on this and i think there are other opportunities that are bigger that afford me a larger audience and that hopefully ultimately will lead to syndication and i'm hoping one day to be to be national and to make a lot of money doing this so sure well well thank you so much i really enjoyed listening to your show while you are in my market and uh you know i'm i'm born and raised in chicago and i probably wouldn't be i've always loved i ran but i wouldn't be tuned into the radio every week if you hadn't done this uh adventure and uh thank you well i appreciate that you know and if you want to let a m5 60 know you're gonna miss me that would be great uh really appreciate the call shawn and the rest of you anybody who misses me just let a m5 60 know that they should put me on as a daily host and pay me the big bucks and uh you'll have me back even uh bigger than ever um so here's the bottom line guys i want you all to take your mind seriously which means facts facts not emotions not speculations not revelation no mysticism no conspiracy theories facts evidence based thinking they're all new kind of thinking you can't have thinking without evidently think think think and what's the purpose of thinking the end of the day the purpose of thinking is to be successful it's to make your life a success to use a cliche to be the best that you can be not just in any particular thing in life not in any particular field not just in your profession but in life itself be the best that you can be in life itself that's what i ran teaches us that it's noble that it's virtuous that it's right that's our purpose in life is to be the best that we can be in everything that we do not better than other people other people are not the standard you are the standard i am the standard for myself so be a rational egoist be rationally selfish and then expect of other people basically to leave you alone hopefully to live successful independent lives and to trade with them win-win relationships other people incredibly valuable incredible value spiritually and materially so you want to have great relationships with other people you want to live the best life that you can live and for that you need to live in a society and hopefully that society is composed of other people like you but some of them are going to be bad people and that's why you need government you need government some of them are going to be bad and to protect you from those bad people we need a monopoly over the use of force we need a government who's there whose only job is to protect us not from our choices not from ourselves but from bad guys from terrorists from criminals from invaders and that's a government that protects individual rights and does nothing else all right that in short is what i stand for that's what i ran stood for go read i ran keep following me keep listening to the podcast twitter facebook don't lose touch thank you chicago thanks guys yeah me too thanks a lot sure we'll bump it each other somewhere someplace thanks appreciate it