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I agree, James. And one must terribly hate oneself to hate mankind.
Happy Thanksgiving! Kudos and thank you to producers. Thank God for many things and for Ayn Rand.
"Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a producers’ holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. Abundance is (or was and ought to be) America’s pride—just as it is the pride of American parents that their children need never know starvation." - Ayn Rand
By Leonard Peikoff, Ph.D.
Reprinted by permission from The Intellectual Activist, Volume V, Number 1 (1989) http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?p...
From the article's conclusion:
It is perhaps too early for there to be a mass movement of Objectivists. But let those of us who are Objectivists at least make sure that what we are spreading is Ayn Rand’s actual ideas, not some distorted hash of them. Let us make sure that in the quest for a national following we are not subverting the integrity of the philosophy to which we are dedicated. If we who understand the issues speak out, our number, whether large or small, is irrelevant; in the long run, we will prevail.
If we engage in quality-control now, refusing to sanction the rewriters of Objectivism whatever the short-term cost and schisms, the long-range result will be a new lease on life for mankind. If we don’t, we are frauds in the short-term and monsters long-range.
Let us not cohabit with or become alchemists in reverse, i.e., men who turn the gold of Ayn Rand into lead.
Paraphrasing Marx: in demanding intellectual consistency, we have nothing to lose but our deluders—and we have the world to win.
Flights of Mind, Brought to Life
“The Last Supper,” “Mechanical Lion” and “Robot Soldier” at the exhibition “Leonardo da Vinci’s Workshop” at Discovery Times Square Exposition
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/arts/d...
1957 letter to the NYT, responding to a negative review of Atlas Shrugged:
To The Editor:
“Atlas Shrugged” is a celebration of life and happiness. Justice is unrelenting. Creative individuals and undeviating purpose and rationality achieve joy and fulfillment. Parasites who persistently avoid either purpose or reason perish as they should.
Mr. Hicks suspiciously wonders “about a person who sustains such a mood through the writing of 1,100 pages and some fourteen years of work.” This reader wonders about a person who finds unrelenting justice personally disturbing.
– Alan Greenspan
Purveyor of Truth (Part 1) – Definitions: Guardians of Rationality
http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2009/11/pur...
Excerpt:
When called upon to do good by force – to be King of the United States – George Washington took offense, calling it “abhorrent!”
Those who live by the facts of reality accept these truths: man has free will, and individuals have equal, inherent, inalienable rights. Those who go by the truth advance their moral values by using reason and persuasion. Never by force.
A purveyor of truth is on the side of reason and rights. Like Thomas Jefferson, he avows, “I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
Happy Veteran's Day!
Kudos and Thank You to soldiers and their families.
"Have confidence in your own judgment; don't give undue deference to the opinions and feelings of others." - Ayn Rand
By Harry Binswanger, as published in Why Businessmen Need Philosophy, pages 153–166 http://atlasshrugged.com/book/dollar-and...To the Glory of Man
