Let Us Alone!
Ayn Rand was invited to write a weekly column for the LA Times. Here, she reads three of the articles (listening audio 30 min tot) "Leave Us Alone" "The Cold Civil War" and "The Man Haters." These articles are very prescient today
"The statists’ epistemological method consists of endless debates about single, concrete, out-of-context, range-of-the-moment issues, never allowing them to be integrated into a sum, never referring to basic principles or ultimate consequences—and thus inducing a state of intellectual disintegration in their followers. The purpose of that verbal fog is to conceal the evasion of two fundamentals: (a) that production and prosperity are the product of men’s intelligence, and (b) that government power is the power of coercion by physical force." ~ Ayn Rand in 'Let Us Alone!'
"The statists’ epistemological method consists of endless debates about single, concrete, out-of-context, range-of-the-moment issues, never allowing them to be integrated into a sum, never referring to basic principles or ultimate consequences—and thus inducing a state of intellectual disintegration in their followers. The purpose of that verbal fog is to conceal the evasion of two fundamentals: (a) that production and prosperity are the product of men’s intelligence, and (b) that government power is the power of coercion by physical force." ~ Ayn Rand in 'Let Us Alone!'
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