Ayn Rand explains why it's impossible to get away from the question of values https://t.co/m1ltedMhhy
Ayn Rand explains why it's impossible to get away from the question of values https://t.co/m1ltedMhhy
Only Ayn Rand was smart enough to predict that incompetence and an ENVY of excellence will lead to dystopian social outcomes. Orwell thought we'd need total mind control, Huxley thought we'd need a permanently drugged populace, but Rand knew: all you need is resentment https://t.co/L8618EXBoK
If our values are to rise in importance above the froth of long-run uncertainty about the effects of our actions, we must look to relatively large and important values.
Tyler Cowen • Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
Ayn Rand • Atlas Shrugged
An entity incapable of initiating action, or for whom the consequences would always be the same regardless of its actions—an entity, in other words, not confronted with alternatives—could have no purposes, no goals, and hence no values. Only the existence of alternatives can make purpose, and therefore values, possible and necessary.