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Responses to the FR posting demonstrate how few understand how far down the road to a ruined society, a corrupt culture, and total oppression America has gone. This article illustrates why the rapidly accelerating destruction of America is possible—because most Americans do not know what has been lost, because by the time they came along, it was already lost and they have never seen a society that is truly free, comprised of independent individuals of character and decency, men of culture and values and goodwill toward one another, such as cannot even be imagined today.
When any American today believes the lie that "voting" is "participating" in America, when there is no one to vote for but various brands of corrupt politicians, all bent on destroying this country, and do not understand there is absolutely no political solution to this downward spiral, the destruction of America will come with the willing complicity of its citizens.
Hank
Not one of her heroes engages in propaganda. All of her heroes do one thing, they choose to live their lives as free independent individualists, and it is that choice and their lives that produced the revolution.
Whole ball of wax.
When people in a society are allowed the freedom of pursuing their lives as "free independent" individuals to whom the products of their talents/labor belongs without encroachment - society benefits by default.
When society believes it has the right to take, by force, the use of another's work/talent - society will degenerate.
Thanks, Ping to Save
This article is well written, but it is obviously nonsense.
How can one be an “individualist” in Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China, or Pol Pot’s Cambodia?
Our freedom came from George Washington and his army, and was codified into the US Constitution. Once one generation of freedom-loving Americans stops taking an interest in politics, the next generation will find that the freedom to be an individualist is gone.
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if the only way to prevail is to live your life as a free man, then did Ayn Rand follow her own advice; she wrote and was very influential in shaping others opinions, didn’t she accomplish far more through her efforts than she ever could have by only living life as a free person?
Mark for later
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It sounds like this material may hearken towards some Libertarian ethos — errr, “sounds libertarian to me, bob”, in another way to put it ;^)
Considering, I would agree with the assertion that no individualist movement would ever succeed in being anything more than the furtherance of a paradox :^) To take as an objective, that it would be a “movement”, that could be somehow contrary to the nature of individual freedom.
Still, the founding *communities* (as an effort, it was not only of the who men signed the Constitution) the founding communities of our US managed to pull it off, somehow — a “movement”, was it? and there must have been something of an objective for to establish such freedoms as allow for individual freedom — implicit in it.
In the effects of that “movement”, if you will, our nation *is* a nation and is a ‘free’ nation (with all of the philosophical difficulties implicit of that phrase, albeit), whereas it was not ‘free’ as so, before the Revolutionary War.
Pardon the naivety of my counterpoint ;^)
Thanks for the ping.