AR didn’t seem to notice that human infants come into the world completely helpless. Should leave at the side of the road because they are unable to look after themselves. Wondering how AR learned to feed herself, walk, talk, read, write, etc. Independence is a value, but certainly not the primary one. We are able very little without the support and engagement of others. Sartre tells that people are hell, but they are a hell that is inescapable for all of us. I believe AR was a human missing a few key pieces.
AR probably refute that everyone have a desire and to help an infant is to make yourself feel good and that's why you are selfish. It's that she use the word selfish differently then everyone and it seem a lot of people don't understand her point of view
I don’t hate her but her stuff just seems to me like a derivative of Nietzsche. I do give her props on being atheist and pro choice at the time. If Buckley and National Review hates you you’re doing something right.
Like Kissinger, Rand turned her childhood trauma into rampaging narcissism and complete disdain for other humans, dressed up as some sort of philosophy.
What evidence do you have of her "trauma" influencing her views? I think you are just psychologizing on order to dismiss her ideas. Where does she show disdain for humans?
The rest of you - while the OP comes off really asinine, he refers to her youth under Communist rule, which shaped her views since - her father's pharmacy being nationalized, witnessing the collective mentality in practice - pushing her views to the extreme opposite.
Dawkins was _less_ wrong than Rand.. but he was still wrong, selfishness, as we use it, isn't the same thing what Dawkins uses to describe gene's _selfishness_ just because altruism doesn't consist of little altruism bits, but neurotransmitters and electric currents, *doesn't mean* that altruism can be replaced with selfishness, either of those are emerging properties above the neural network. and reason is always a slave of desire.
highly recommend Adam Curtis's documentary - All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. - Objectivism is now our new zeitgeist and most of us don't realise
I can not help but laugh at the axiom "happiness comes from work", not dissimilar from "work will set you free", and why is that statement not wrong even with historical context, work creates value, where there was none.
Appalling that anyone still gives credence and oxygen to Rand's noxious, callow thought. I'm tempted to unsubscribe, but I appreciate the intelligent and cultured episodes presented here on other subjects.
I am glad to have found this-I disagree with Rand’s ideas, but my grandmother adopted those ideas five decades ago, and this has had an influence on generations of us now. I went the opposite way-liberal, atheist feminist.
@@NightMystique13 It is ironic that so many right-wing American Christians embrace Rand and her philosophy, given that Rand herself was atheist (one of the few positions she shared with the Communists who prevailed in her native Russia). I appreciate your thoughtful reply!
Your characterization of Rands view is way off, i don't think its intentional but youre reading into her work other views of selfishness. For example, she did not believe that everybody was selfish, selfishness is something you achieve.
I just unsubscribed...the "virtue of selfishness" suggests that the best life has to offer is "objectivism": we are strictly self-rationalizing transactional creatures. To reiterate the nonesensical oxymoron of 'selfish - virtue' is predicated on short-changing one's qualitative rapport with life.
Interesting. I really appreciated the quality and care in which the ideas were presented. It was an informative presentation without endorsement to me. And I am not an Ayn Rand proponent at all.
He literally said first thing that this was controversial. He has amazing content but you don't like this one video. Wow... Do you walk around with bubble wrap too?
@@OccamsRazor393 Rand haters are usually very visceral in their feelings towards her. I genuinely don't understand that. I've read some of her, I find her story very interesting, and I don't know why people hate her this much.
