Spot on. For all of our 90s obsession with compassionate capitalism, tomorrow’s biggest companies are all being built by sociopaths.
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Colbert on Ayn Rand and Objectivism
The Truth About GOP Hero Ayn Rand (by ThinkProgressVideo)
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Ayn Rand’s specific worldview was that “The pursuit of his (man’s) own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.”[i] This is in direct opposition to a functional humane society where the whole must be cohesive in order to provide for its weakest and most vulnerable. You’ll notice my inclusion of the word “humane”. You can have a perfectly functional society without a shred of humanity in it. Take, for example, the Industrial Age societies. They literally built the foundations for the world we know and yet they allowed or even encouraged child labor; essentially the slavery of children. Speaking of slavery, they had THAT, too, and no matter what Haley Barbour, Pat Buchanan and the other apologists revisionists would have you think, it was horrible and inhumane. Ayn Rand’s ideal world is one where society has no say in your actions short of you physically assaulting another person. “The only function of the government, in such a society, is the task of protecting man’s rights, i.e., the task of protecting him from physical force.”[ii] One is forced to wonder what she would make of Wall Street’s Epic Fail. Rand was a big champion of no regulation at all. Close your eyes and imagine what Wall Street could do with even less regulation than it had before. Think of all the possibilities. Taste the freedom. Are you done vomiting yet?
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The book is Yuppie masturbatory material. It, and objectivism, are meant to assert that exploitation and and generally putting your own self-actualization needs above the needs of everyone else is morally right.
It's been my experience communicating with people who refuse to identify themselves is generally a bad idea; no idea or utterance is worth your attention without someone attaching their identity to it.
I'd go further in denouncing Rand: I'd say that she celebrates sociopathy.
Not all people from Wasilla are sociopaths, just the one's that are in to government work are.