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>>> Again, no one tried it yet.
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>> Because it just doesn't work. If it did work, don't you think someone
>> would've tried it in the entire history of civilization?
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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.
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>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.
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>Philosophy of an ugly-duckling genius, far ahead of its time, riding in a
>shabby vehicle instead of Rolls Royce.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
Such an approach might work, as William F. Buckley put it, "if men
were angels". Until then, nice idea, wrong species.
>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.
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>Voice from the Wilderness
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