3 Reasons Millennials Should Consider Ditching Karl Marx for Ayn Rand
How many Millennial's will actually read this article?
Not much I can add in the way of commentary but I will comment on a couple of things I've always liked in Rand's writings.
1 “A civilized society is one in which physical force is banned from human relationships—in which the government, acting as a policeman, may use force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use.”
The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand
This is where Mark Hamilton's Prime Law comes from. In Essence: Force is only justified toward those that initiate it.
2...My all time favorite:
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it’s yours.”
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Those are the most beautiful works I ever heard.
I thought the article pitted the Virtues of Objectivism against Marxism victoriously.
What would you add to this.
Not much I can add in the way of commentary but I will comment on a couple of things I've always liked in Rand's writings.
1 “A civilized society is one in which physical force is banned from human relationships—in which the government, acting as a policeman, may use force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use.”
The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand
This is where Mark Hamilton's Prime Law comes from. In Essence: Force is only justified toward those that initiate it.
2...My all time favorite:
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it’s yours.”
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Those are the most beautiful works I ever heard.
I thought the article pitted the Virtues of Objectivism against Marxism victoriously.
What would you add to this.
Your commentary is spot on. Keep up the good work.
America has a government that employs violence to control its citizens and ensure the 'voting public' continues to authorize its immoral behavior. The government has grown so large and the victims are so enthralled with its power and majesty I don't know that civilized freemen can exist except by diverting attention from themselves and never taking on the dragon directly.
Teaching others is a good thing but never seems to produce much results as in greater numbers of better quality individuals. It seems those who choose liberty were always choosing it when they were young and when they found someone like Ayn Rand who characterized it for them they recognized it and continued in their search. I don't know if the mass of collectivists can ever learn these concepts much less live by them.
Not enough. Better yet, how many of those millennials will ever read and contrast Rand's work to that of Karl Marx as so many of us have? It would seem that they are only spoon fed their slanted philosophy by statists, but never bother to investigate the sources directly. I know when I ask people of their philosophy, and if they have done so, more often than not all I see is eyes that glaze over. Sad. Then occasionally I run into someone that has read the material, seen through the nonsense, and they renew my hopes. Of course, my hopes are not what they once were, yet I still continue to recognize that history repeats. I just hope to be around when the pendulum swings fully in the preferred direction.
Happy Holidays,
OA.
That matches to what I see and hear as well.
either Das Kapital or the Communist Manifesto, I have just been exposed to the Socialistic attitudes which exist in our culture, but I had the idea that the only proper purpose of government was to protect man from force and violence (this including fraud) since I was about 12 years old. I discovered Ayn Rand when I was 15, and thought that, at last, I had found someone who was right about it.
Perhaps, however, I should read some of Marx,in order to "know my enemy".
Beautiful words, indeed. Unfortunately unheeded by so many.
Too bad that the millenials are too busy squawling and bawling because Johnny has more than they do, to open their eyes and see what's possible. (Thank goodness ALL Millenials aren't alike....I just hate that so many are like this.)
they couldn't comprehend AYN RAND anyway.
But should the article ever have any impact on Millennials, which I sincerely doubt, Antifa would want to beat up writer Leisa Miller and maybe even olduglycarl..
Teddy, is regretfully, my middle name...oh the shame of it...my parents didn't know any better.
One day Ted was assigned to Tower 6 that overlooks the west yard where a crazy inmate always crisscrossed back and forth, back and forth, fussing and shaking his fists at invisible people.
Ted decided to make fun of the mental case for the benefit the other inmates on that yard.
First, allow me to explain that each tower comes with a bucket and a rope to raise and lower the tower door key and lunch boxes.
Ted placed the bucket over his head and began to march back and forth on the catwalk.
Unfortunately for Ted, a captain entering the prison could see the prison's sixth tower from the front gate controlled by the officer on Tower 1.
The captain entered just after the Second Shift began their 15-minute shift briefing before going to their assigned posts.
Over the Second Shift commander's radio the following was heard by all~
"Captain Winston to shift office."
"Shift Office. Go ahead."
"Shift Office, on Tower Six there is an officer with a bucket on his head. I want to see him in my office. AND I WANT TO SEE HIM NOWWW!"
The entire Second Shift laughed their heads off.
As for Ted, he actually survived that with his job intact.
Many are the stories about Ted.
Note: Everyone had to take random urine tests for street drugs.
A computer did the random picking. It was known as "Winning the lottery."
A different captain took Ted into a restroom to supervise such a test.
Ted dropped his drawers all the way to the floor.
And so the captain said, "You don't have any couth, do you?"
Yep, that was one big thing we all knew about Ted.
Another article on the site may provide a clue:
http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/bl...