"DanielSan" gmail.com> wrote in message
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What a rabid nonsense. What history of civilization are you talking about?
Rand was born in the beginning of the 20th century.

The problem is she misrepresented her own philosophy by her cracked
heavy-Russian-accent voice and didactic, monotonous, almost authoritarian
presentation, and by using words like Capitalism and Selfishness instead of
Free Market and Pursuit of Personal Happiness -- PPH, since Americans love
it this way so much better.

Philosophy of an ugly-duckling genius, far ahead of its time, riding in a
shabby vehicle instead of Rolls Royce.

You, and People like you will never comprehend her philosophy and ethical
system, just like Zeno, the Sophist or Socrates would not be able to
comprehend the Quantum Theory; just like the Spanish Inquisition field court
would not be able to comprehend the US Constitution and Human Rights.

To understand her philosophy you need to separate themselves from the
centuries of Christian Moral Dogma and cure yourself from the Tunnel Vision
Syndrome -- not any time soon, though.

Until you realize that Society and Common Good is a figment of your
imagination, albeit persistent one, you will suffer needlessly and endlessly
from these self-inflicted delusions and will think that this is natural,
that this is supposed to be and reflects the human nature. You will go
through endless barrage of ridiculous conflicts, that are in fact conflicts
between Self and Common Good (Society) and think it's all inevitable. You
will never succeed beyond what you have now, if you don't realize one day,
after excruciatingly painful thinking process, that the only way for humans
to exist in harmony and productive cooperation is to recognize absolute
autonomy of each other, and start building their relationships from that
point, never letting this point out of sight. This is the point when what i
would call Natural Ethics can start to self-develop.

But maybe it's too late already? Contemporary man is helplessly stuck in the
quagmire of unsystematized philosophical tradition waiting for the GOD to
stretch a helping hand, but there's no GOD. And if there is one, he just
waits patiently for us to save ourselves, taking little breaks from time to
time to explode another supernova.

Voice from the Wilderness