Rush Limbaugh & Ayn Rand agree on direction of American society
Most of us have shared our opinions about the self-destructive path America is on financially. Yesterday Rush Limbaugh echoed us.
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It would not be hard to stretch the sacrifice of newborn children into the modern equivalent, abortion. How many potentially great men and women have been murdered on the alter of inconvenience since SCOTUS blew RvWade?
Now we are assaulted on every side by homosexuality. At least if we could back out for a generation, that would end. LOL But, no, like cancer it's eating away at the foundations that built our country. Now businessmen are being enslaved to serve these people or face imprisonment. Being forced to violate their religious beliefs and their personal moral standards or go to jail.
The path is clear, we ARE on a road to doom if we do not change our direction and stand up to oppose these things. The rot goes on.
There was a time when universities taught Western Civ in a manner that revealed exactly what caused these great civilizations to fall, but today, teaching history as it really was is verboten. EVERYTHING is couched in a politically correct manner, even to the point of not teaching all of history. Mustn't injure the little dears psyche and we certainly don't want them EVER feel they are wrong. That's why 2+2 now equals 3 or 6 or 5 or whatever leads them to be happy and feel wanted. GAG!
It seems to be your chosen path since you even fail to understand that Britannia no longer rules the world as it did 200 odd years ago. Also Nazi Germany was never a world power. It was a warring nation that conquered about 60% of Europe, but it never commanded any great amount of world trade and since it's total economy was based on weapon production to the exclusion of all else. It did a lot of harm in the world but that was all.
I can't believe you missed my references to the civilizations that shaped our civilization. Those are the nations that commanded the majority of civilized people in their day, not lad mass.
So, I must ask, have you studied western civ yet? Even though it's such a corrupted study today, if it's a class you've somehow missed, you owe it to yourself to take. I have retaken it 4 times over the past 40 years since I like learning different professors particular interests. But I won't again until we can take back our universities. It's a great study that will ground you in how our civilization can to be. But there just might be too much truth there for you to handle.
Ancient African tribes believed that a solar eclipse meant the Sun's fire had been extinguished, and that it needed to be reignited by shooting flaming arrows at it – which they did, and it was always "successful."
Also, I'm not sure you can say Britain really collapsed. From what I understand they just gradually stripped away the powers of the monarchy until the king and royal family were simply figureheads, and transferred actual power to the Parliament. Maybe I'm off on that, though. I could be wrong. British history is a subject which I admit I am a little fuzzy on. Perhaps you can fill me in on some of the details?
As a side note, I would like to know how your theory accounts for the fact that Nazi Germany rounded up homosexuals and sent them off to death camps right alongside the Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, immigrants, and vagrants. How does that factor in?
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Not agreeing with your philosophy, if that's what it is, does not equate to not understanding.
But regardless, Ayn Rand never owned a company, never operated in a management position over other people, and never held any leadership position that had any real responsibilities. As such, her theories about what was supposedly necessary to succeed in business all come from a position which lacks any real world experience.
If you really want to know what sort of qualities one needs to reach success, it's best to ask someone who's actually been there.
http://www.leadershipnow.com/leadershipq...
As to the 'sort of qualities, one needs to reach success', I would proffer that Ayn Rand was a very successful author and an amazing philosopher.
Anyway, as far as Ayn Rand's quality as a philosopher is concerned, I would put her on about the same level as Immanuel Kant – some interesting ideas, but some not so great ones, as well. And yes, she was definitely a highly successful author. Of that there can be no dispute. Her books sold incredibly well, she made very healthy royalties off of them, they are incredibly popular, and have remained so for over five decades. In every method by which we can measure the success of an author, she has excelled. If I wanted advice on how to write a best-selling novel, I would not hesitate to ask for her advice (were she still alive, of course). But if I wanted advice on how to build and run a successful and profitable business, or how to be an effective leader, I would ask someone who had actually done so, not someone who had merely written a fictional story about doing so.
I would also treat several of her ideas about government and economics with a heavy dose of skepticism, as they have yet to be empirically tested or proven. Theory is great, but it can never match real world experience.
Plus, there's also this:
http://www.businessinsider.com/ayn-rand-...
Don't get me wrong. I think Ayn Rand's stories are great. Her writing is a wonderful resource if you want to get inspiration for literary prose, and can even help introduce one to certain philosophical concepts. But if you seek genuine business acumen, there are other resources which have a better track record of success.
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Hehe, sounds like a description of Ayn Rand's own philosophy club that she ran back in the day...
At the end of the article, the author says there are "many other businessmen with very successful records who are Ayn Rand fans and understand the real message of her novels." However, I noticed that he conveniently failed to list any of them. Perhaps you know of some?
Anyway, that was a great article. Thanks for sharing. :)