It must be nice to be as intellectually superior as you are. You can see into the past with today’s knowledge and rearrange all the knowledge available at that time to meet today’s standards. Nice trick!
All wise people are humble because they can truly understand how much they don’t know.
Ayn Rand embraced Natural Law Theory (with no God) and hated the irrational philosophy of the German Postmodernists —which swept away Natural Law Theory and the Age of Reason (the Modern Age which Founded the US). John Locke was the Father of Classical Liberalism and his philosophy was based on Natural Law Theory (Higher Power in the Rule of Law).
In the 1800’s—Godless philosophies (this is John Austin, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Jeremy Bentham, etc.) became the norm in Western Civilization-—first in Europe and then it swept into America with all the intellectuals fleeing the wars in Europe and taking over the universities—publishing companies and textbooks and Foundations. They literally are killing “Right Reason According to Nature”=Just Law-—they twist the meaning of words to mean NOTHING-—they are Deconstructing Western Civilization to “Kill God”—because the only thing all these people had in common was a vile hatred for Christianity (since Voltaire).
This irrational thinking-—for materialism does take “faith” but they “lie” about “knowing”. Religious people admit that ‘Faith” is needed—but Atheists never do when their “thinking” actually takes more “faith” than the Judeo-Christian Theology.
When you have no Standards-— ( we did for hundreds of years-—GOD) —for Right and Wrong (Decalogue), then you can have valid argument that you can Deduce from these “Truths”. It uses logic when you study nature and learn the patterns in human nature and the world-—get Common Sense. St. Thomas Aquinas in the 1200’s infused Catholic Theology into Natural Law Theory which was the basis of Cicero’s thinking (Just Law came from him).
There is no arguing with people who have no moral standards except what they “feel” is “good”. They use emotions to decide “truth” instead of the intellect. They also have Darwinism as their religion, so they BELIEVE that humans evolve-—and as such, they can “progress” or be perfected.
Now, ALL of history says that there can be NO perfection of man-—in fact, God is the only thing which keeps man from becoming, so inhuman like Stalin and Hitler and Mao. Marxists want utopia-—without a God. It is not possible—it is IRRATIONAL—in fact, it has proven Satanic and evil.
All geniuses in the past stated it is necessary to read all the Classics and philosophy of Western Civ to become Wise. You can NEVER know everything-—you need to continue LEARNING until you die FROM THE BEST MINDS. It is the purpose of life-—to be Wise (and then you will be happy). You need to get OUT of Plato’s Cave. Most people NEVER do. They “think” they are seeing “reality” but they don’t even come close to understanding the Truth of the world and what is REALLY going on.
(The Matrix illustrated Plato’s Cave that the masses live in....a fantasy-—they “feel” what is good==they can’t “think” because they know nothing worth knowing. They don’t study the Classics and philosophy to understand where all their ideas came from—and every one of your ideas have an origin. Best to find it.