Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Those Who Want Slavery Should Have The Grace To. . . .


Anthem
By Ayn Rand
The story was written in 1937


"To make my life a reason unto itself.
I know what I want
up to the age of two hundred.
Know what you want in life and go after it.
I worship individuals
for their highest possibilities as individuals,
and I loathe humanity,
for its failure to live up to these possibilities. . . ."
~ Ayn Rand



"I shall merely point out that the slogan "production for use and not for profit" is now accepted by most men as commonplace, and a commonplace stating a proper, desirable goal. If any intelligible meaning can be discerned in that slogan at all, what is it, if not the idea that the motive of a man's work must be the need of others, not his own need, desire or gain?

Compulsory labor conscription is now practiced or advocated in every country on earth. What is it based on, if not the idea that the state is best qualified to decide where a man can be useful to others, such usefulness being the only consideration, and that his own aims, desires or happiness should be ignored as of no importance.

We have Councils of Vocations, Councils of Eugenics, every possible kind of Council, including a World Council - and if these do not as yet hold total power over us, is it from lack of intention?

"Social gains," "social aims," "social objectives" have become the daily bromides of our language. The necessity of a social justification for all activities and all existence is now taken for granted. There is no proposal outrageous enough but what its author can get a respectful hearing and approbation if he claims that in some undefined way it is for "the common good."

Some might think - though I don't - that nine years ago there was some excuse for men not to see the direction in which the world was going. Today, the evidence is so blatant that no excuse can be claimed by anyone any longer. Those who refuse to see it now are neither blind nor innocent.

The greatest guilt today is that people who accept collectivism by moral default; the people who seek protection from the necessity of taking a stand, by refusing to admit to themselves the nature of that which they are accepting; the people who support plans specifically designed to achieve serfdom, but hide behind the empty assertion that they are lovers of freedom, with no concrete meaning attached to the word; the people who believe that the content of ideas need not be examined, that principles need not be defined, and that facts can be eliminated by keeping one's eyes shut. They expect, when they find themselves in a world of bloody ruins and concentration camps, to escape moral responsibility by wailing: "But I didn't mean this."

Those who want slavery should have the grace to name it by its proper name. They must face the full meaning of that which they are advocating or condoning; the full, exact, specific meaning of collectivism, of its logical implications, of the principles upon which it is based, and of the ultimate consequences to which these principles will lead.

They must face it, then decide whether this is what they want or not.

~ Ayn Rand April 1946




I took a stand and I am out here in my uniform. I got my FBI, ICE, DHS, CIA, Navy, Army, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, Police, Protector of my Life and Rights uniform on. Taking care of business, because I know, what I WANT!

Justice, because Justice matters in free societies.



Saturday, January 27, 2018

"No Value Is Higher Than Self-Esteem. . . .


"No value is higher than self-esteem
but you’ve invested it in 
counterfeit securities
and now your morality 
has caught you in a trap 
where you are forced to protect your self-esteem 
by fighting for the creed of
self-destruction. 
The grim joke is on you: 
that need of self-esteem, 
which you’re unable to explain or to define, 
belongs to my morality, 
not yours; 
it’s the objective token of my code, 
it is my proof within your own soul."


Thursday, January 25, 2018

"Rights Are Man's Protection Against ALL Other Men. . .



“Rights” are a moral concept—the concept that provides a logical transition from the principles guiding an individual’s actions to the principles guiding his relationship with others—the concept that preserves and protects individual morality in a social context—the link between the moral code of a man and the legal code of a society, between ethics and politics. Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law."

~ Found at Ayn Rand Lexicon - Individual Rights



"Man holds these rights, 
not from the collective 
nor for the collective, 
but against the collective -
as a barrier which 
the collective cannot cross; . . .
these rights are man's protection
against all other men."
~ Ayn Rand 




"Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends on the individual, man’s survival requires that those who think be free of the interference of those who don’t. Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man’s mind."

~ Found at Ayn Rand Lexicon - Individual Rights

Sunday, January 21, 2018

The Egoist in the Absolute Sense Is Not the Man Who. . . .


The egoist in the absolute sense 
is not the man who sacrifices others. 
He is the man who stands above the need
 of using others in any manner. 
He does not function through them. 
He is not concerned with them in any primary matter. 
Not in his aim, not in his motive, not in his thinking, 
not in his desires, not in the source of his energy. 
He does not exist for any other man—
and he asks no other man to exist for him. 
This is the only form of brotherhood 
and mutual respect possible between men.

~ Ayn Rand


Individual Rights: A Man's Right To His/Her Own Life

Reponsibility/Obligation


"In reality and in the Objectivist ethics, there is no such thing as “duty.” There is only choice and the full, clear recognition of a principle obscured by the notion of “duty”: the Law of Causality.
The proper approach to ethics, the start from a metaphysically clean slate, untainted by any touch of Kantianism, can best be illustrated by the following story. In answer to a man who was telling her that she’s got to do something or other, a wise old Negro woman said:"
“Mister, there’s nothing I’ve got to do except die.”

Individual Rights

"A man's right to his own life."
~ Ayn Rand



A “right” is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man’s freedom of action in a social context. There is only one fundamental right (all the others are its consequences or corollaries): a man’s right to his own life. Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action; the right to life means the right to engage in self-sustaining and self-generated action—which means: the freedom to take all the actions required by the nature of a rational being for the support, the furtherance, the fulfillment and the enjoyment of his own life. (Such is the meaning of the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.)
The concept of a “right” pertains only to action—specifically, to freedom of action. It means freedom from physical compulsion, coercion or interference by other men.
Thus, for every individual, a right is the moral sanction of a positive—of his freedom to act on his own judgment, for his own goals, by his own voluntary, uncoerced choice. As to his neighbors, his rights impose no obligations on them except of a negative kind: to abstain from violating his rights.
The right to life is the source of all rights—and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.
Bear in mind that the right to property is a right to action, like all the others: it is not the right to an object, but to the action and the consequences of producing or earning that object. It is not a guarantee that a man will earn any property, but only a guarantee that he will own it if he earns it. It is the right to gain, to keep, to use and to dispose of material values.

Saturday, January 20, 2018

Do You Use Logic To Differentiate, Reality From Lies?


"It’s logical, 
but logic has nothing to do with reality.” 
Logic is the art or skill of 
non-contradictory identification. 
Logic has a single law, 
the Law of Identity, 
and its various corollaries."




"All thinking is a process of identification and integration. Man perceives a blob of color; by integrating the evidence of his sight and his touch, he learns to identify it as a solid object; he learns to identify the object as a table; he learns that the table is made of wood; he learns that the wood consists of cells, that the cells consist of molecules, that the molecules consist of atoms. All through this process, the work of his mind consists of answers to a single question: What is it? His means to establish the truth of his answers is logic, and logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. An atom is itself, and so is the universe; neither can contradict its own identity; nor can a part contradict the whole. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the total sum of his knowledge. To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality."

"The fundamental concept of method, the one on which all the others depend, is logic. The distinguishing characteristic of logic (the art of non-contradictory identification) indicates the nature of the actions (actions of consciousness required to achieve a correct identification) and their goal (knowledge)—while omitting the length, complexity or specific steps of the process of logical inference, as well as the nature of the particular cognitive problem involved in any given instance of using logic."

Thursday, January 18, 2018

"Like a Sensitive Guardian Watching and Constantly. . .

Values


"Like a sensitive guardian watching and 
constantly assessing his relationship to reality."




"To challenge the basic premise of any discipline, one must begin at the beginning. In ethics, one must begin by asking: What are values? Why does man need them?
Value” is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. The concept “value” is not a primary; it presupposes an answer to the question: of value to whom and for what? It presupposes an entity capable of acting to achieve a goal in the face of an alternative. Where no alternative exists, no goals and no values are possible.
I quote from Galt’s speech: “There is only one fundamental alternative in the universe: existence or nonexistence—and it pertains to a single class of entities: to living organisms. The existence of inanimate matter is unconditional, the existence of life is not: it depends on a specific course of action. Matter is indestructible, it changes its forms, but it cannot cease to exist. It is only a living organism that faces a constant alternative: the issue of life or death. Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action, it dies; its chemical elements remain, but its life goes out of existence. It is only the concept of ‘Life’ that makes the concept of ‘Value’ possible. It is only to a living entity that things can be good or evil.”
To make this point fully clear, try to imagine an immortal, indestructible robot, an entity which moves and acts, but which cannot be affected by anything, which cannot be changed in any respect, which cannot be damaged, injured or destroyed. Such an entity would not be able to have any values; it would have nothing to gain or to lose; it could not regard anything as for or against it, as serving or threatening its welfare, as fulfilling or frustrating its interests. It could have no interests and no goals."

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

"What is The Nature of a Creature in Which The Sight. . . .



"What is the nature of a creature
in which the sight of a value arouses 
hatred and the desire to destroy?
In the most profound sense of the term,
such a creature is a killer,
not a physical, but a metaphysical one
it is not an enemy of your values,
but of ALL values,
it is an enemy of anything 
that enables men to survive, 
it is an enemy of life as such
and everything living."



"Consider the full meaning of this attitude. Values are that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Values are a necessity of man’s survival, and wider: of any living organism’s survival. Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action, and the successful pursuit of values is a precondition of remaining alive. Since nature does not provide man with an automatic knowledge of the code of values he requires, there are differences in the codes which men accept and the goals they pursue. But consider the abstraction “value,” apart from the particular content of any given code, and ask yourself: What is the nature of a creature in which the sight of a value arouses hatred and the desire to destroy? In the most profound sense of the term, such a creature is a killer, not a physical, but a metaphysical one—it is not an enemy of your values, but of all values, it is an enemy of anything that enables men to survive, it is an enemy of life as such and of everything living." . . . 

~ Found at Ayn Rand Lexicon - Envy/Hatred for the Good




"They do not want to own your fortune, 
they want you to lose it; 
they do not want to succeed, 
they want you to fail; 
they do not want to live, 
they want you to die; 
they desire nothing, 
they hate existence, 
and they keep running, 
each trying not to learn 
that the object of his hatred is himself . . . . 
They are the essence of evil, 
they, those anti-living objects who seek, 
by devouring the world, 
to fill the selfless zero of their soul. 
It is not your wealth that they’re after. 
Theirs is a conspiracy against the mind, 
which means: against life and man." . . . 



"Today, we live in the Age of Envy.
Envy” is not the emotion I have in mind, but it is the clearest manifestation of an emotion that has remained nameless; it is the only element of a complex emotional sum that men have permitted themselves to identify.
Envy is regarded by most people as a petty, superficial emotion and, therefore, it serves as a semihuman cover for so inhuman an emotion that those who feel it seldom dare admit it even to themselves. . . . That emotion is: hatred of the good for being the good.
This hatred is not resentment against some prescribed view of the good with which one does not agree. . . . Hatred of the good for being the good means hatred of that which one regards as good by one’s own (conscious or subconscious) judgment. It means hatred of a person for possessing a value or virtue one regards as desirable." . . . 

Sunday, January 14, 2018

Ayn Rand's Address - The West Point Academy 3/6/1974


Philosophy: Who Needs It
~ Ayn Rand, American Fiction Writer






"If philosophy can be that evil, why should one study it? Particularly, why should one study the philosophical theories which are blatantly false, make no sense, and bear no relation to real life?"


"My answer is: In self-protection
and in defense of truth, justice, freedom, 
and any value you ever held or may ever hold."


"The battle of philosophers is a battle for man's mind. If you do not understand their theories, you are vulnerable to the worst among them.

Nothing is given to man automatically, neither knowledge, nor self-confidence, nor inner serenity, nor the right way to use his mind. Every value he needs or wants has to be discovered, learned and acquired - even the proper posture of his body. In this context, I want to say that I have always admired the posture of West Point graduates, a posture that projects man in proud, disciplined control of his body. Well, philosophical training gives man the proper intellectual posture - a proud, disciplined control of his mind.

In your own profession, in military science, you know the importance of keeping track of the enemy's weapons, strategy and tactics - and of being prepared to counter them. The same is true in philosophy: you have to understand the enemy's ideas and be prepared to refute them, you have to know his basic arguments and be able to blast them.

It is urgently important for you to understand the nature of the enemy. You are attacked, not for any errors or flaws, but for your virtues. You are denounced, not for any weaknesses, but for your strength and your competence. You are penalized for being protectors of the United States."


"Those who seek to destroy this country, 
seek to disarm it
intellectually and physically. 
The motive of the destroyers is 
not love for communism, 
but hatred for America."


"Today's mawkish concern with and compassion for the feeble, the flawed, the suffering, the guilty, is a cover for the profoundly Kantian hatred of the innocent, the strong, the able, the successful, the virtuous, the confident, the happy. A philosophy out to destroy man's mind is necessarily a philosophy of hatred for a man, for man's life, and for every human value. Hatred of the good for being the good, is the hallmark of the twentieth century. This is the enemy you are facing.

A battle of this kind requires special weapons. It has to be fought with a full understanding of your cause, a full confidence in yourself, and the fullest certainty of the moral rightness of both. Only philosophy can provide you with these weapons."


"In my morality, the defense of one's country 
means that a man is personally unwilling 
to live as the conquered slave of any enemy, 
foreign or domestic. 
This is an enormous virtue. 
Some of you may not be consciously aware of it. 
I want to help you realize it."


"The army of a free country has a great responsibility: the right to use force, but not as an instrument of compulsion and brute conquest - as the armies of other countries have done in their histories - only as an instrument of a free nation's self defense, which means, the defense of a man's individual rights. The principle of using force only in retaliation against those who initiate its use, is the principle of subordinating might to right. The highest integrity and sense of honor are required for such a task. No other army in the world has achieved it. You have.

Since I came from a country guilty of the worst tyranny on earth, I am particularly able to appreciate the meaning, the greatness and the supreme value of that which you are defending. So, in my own name and in the name of the many people who think as I do, I want to say, to all the men of West Point, past, present and future: Thank you."

~ Ayn Rand's full address to The West Point Academy 3/6/1974


Thursday, January 11, 2018

Are You A Sadist The Way You Communicate With Others



"In order to be used as a single unit, 
the enormous sum integrated by a concept
has to be given the form of 
a single, specific, perceptual concrete, 
which will differentiate it 
from all other concretes 
and from all other concepts."




The Miracle Worker by William Gibson . . . tells the story of how Annie Sullivan brought Helen Keller to grasp the nature of language. . . .
I suggest that you read The Miracle Worker and study its implications. . . . this particular play is an invaluable lesson in the fundamentals of a rational epistemology.
I suggest that you consider Annie Sullivan’s titanic struggle to arouse a child’s conceptual faculty by means of a single sense, the sense of touch, then evaluate the meaning, motive and moral status of the notion that man’s conceptual faculty does not require any sensory experience.
I suggest that you consider what an enormous intellectual feat Helen Keller had to perform in order to develop a full conceptual range (including a college education, which required more in her day than it does now), then judge those normal people who learn their first, perceptual-level abstractions without any difficulty and freeze on that level, and keep the higher ranges of their conceptual development in a chaotic fog of swimming, indeterminate approximations, playing a game of signals without referents, as Helen Keller did at first, but without her excuse. Then check on whether you respect and how carefully you employ your priceless possession: language.
And, lastly, I suggest that you try to project what would have happened if, instead of Annie Sullivan, a sadist had taken charge of Helen Keller’s education. A sadist would spell “water” into Helen’s palm, while making her touch water, stones, flowers and dogs interchangeably; he would teach her that water is called “water” today, but “milk” tomorrow; he would endeavor to convey to her that there is no necessary connection between names and things, that the signals in her palm are a game of arbitrary conventions and that she’d better obey him without trying to understand.
If this projection is too monstrous to hold in one’s mind for long, remember that this is what today’s academic philosophers are doing to the young—to minds as confused, as plastic and almost as helpless (on the higher conceptual levels) as Helen Keller’s mind was at her start.". . .

~ Found at Ayn Rand Lexicon - Language


What I AM Waiting For. . . . I Don't Have To Live







What I AM waiting for:

- Being paid for what I have earned by those who value me as an individual.
- Choosing lawyers to represent me, in enormous amounts of lawsuit against Iranians, Asians, other foreigners and all who support them.
- Enjoying my privacy, in my own home. 
- Deciding who, if any, individuals I will associate with. Mutual consent in the relationship by both parties. Very few individuals I will ever trust, or respect. It will be an interview process to be my friend. NO fuck on this earth will tell me who that is!
- Putting my life back together.

Those are the things I am waiting for. ONLY a rational individual would understand and would pay me for my value. Not looking for friendships, looking for what I have earned. Those individuals that live by honesty, respect, and using their mind would understand what I have stated here and would want to pay me for what I have earned. They would NOT demand a relationship from me. 

I am NOT waiting for a party or a celebration with anyone. I am waiting for my privacy. All by myself, in my own home, doing what the fuck I want. And slowly making forward motion with putting my life back together. If you truly believe I am waiting for things besides what is stated above, you are a moronic, stupid, lamebrain, nimrod, deranged, asinine, imbecile, jackass, ignoramus, blockhead, fucking loser. . . . 



Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Understand What I Write, or Quote, I Mean It!


"Honesty is the recognition of the fact 
that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, 
that neither love nor fame nor cash 
is a value if obtained by fraud—
that an attempt to gain a value 
by deceiving the mind of others 
is an act of raising your victims 
to a position higher than reality, 
where you become a pawn of their blindness, 
a slave of their non-thinking and their evasions, 
while their intelligence, their rationality, their perceptiveness 
become the enemies you have to dread and flee—
that you do not care to live as a dependent, 
least of all a dependent on the stupidity of others, 
or as a fool whose source of values 
is the fools he succeeds in fooling—
that honesty is not a social duty, 
not a sacrifice for the sake of others, 
but the most profoundly selfish virtue man can practice: 
his refusal to sacrifice the reality of his own existence 
to the deluded consciousness of others."
~ Ayn Rand 


Atlas Shrugged The Hero's, Moochers, Moral Cowards. . .



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I'm NOT A Robot and MY Mind Is My Tool & Weapon


"The New Intellectual . . . will discard . . . 
the soul-body dichotomy. 
He will discard its irrational conflicts and contradictions, 
such as: mind versus heart, thought versus action, 
reality versus desire, the practical versus the moral. 
He will be an integrated man, 
that is: a thinker who is a man of action. 
He will know that ideas divorced from consequent action 
are fraudulent, and that action divorced from ideas is suicidal. 
He will know that the conceptual level of psycho-epistemology—
the volitional level of reason and thought—
is the basic necessity of man’s survival 
and his greatest moral virtue. 
He will know that men need philosophy 
for the purpose of living on earth. . ."

~Ayn Rand




"Do you observe what human faculty that doctrine was designed to ignore? It was man’s mind that had to be negated in order to make him fall apart. Once he surrendered reason, he was left at the mercy of two monsters whom he could not fathom or control: of a body moved by unaccountable instincts and of a soul moved by mystic revelations—he was left as the passively ravaged victim of a battle between a robot and a dictaphone." . . .

~ Found at Ayn Rand lexicon - Soul-Body Dichotomy 



What I AM waiting for:

- Being paid for what I have earned by those who value me as an individual.
- Choosing lawyers to represent me, in enormous amounts of lawsuit against Iranians, Asians, other foreigners and all who support them.
- Enjoying my privacy, in my own home. 
- Deciding who, if any, individuals I will associate with. Mutual consent in the relationship by both parties. Very few individuals I will ever trust, or respect. It will be an interview process to be my friend. NO fuck on this earth will tell me who that is!
- Putting my life back together.

Those are the things I am waiting for. ONLY a rational individual would understand and would pay me for my value. Not looking for friendships, looking for what I have earned. Those individuals that live by honesty, respect, and using their mind would understand what I have stated here and would want to pay me for what I have earned. They would NOT demand a relationship from me. 

I am NOT waiting for a party or a celebration with anyone. I am waiting for my privacy. All by myself, in my own home, doing what the fuck I want. And slowly making forward motion with putting my life back together. If you truly believe I am waiting for things besides what is stated above, you are a moronic, stupid, lamebrain, nimrod, deranged, asinine, imbecile, jackass, ignoramus, blockhead, fucking loser. . . . 


They Hate Cops and Call The Cops on You, They Say They are Being Profiled and They ARE The Profilers Who Invade EVERY second of Your Privacy, EVIL Foreigners!



The second-hander acts, but the source of his actions
is scattered in every other living person.
It's everywhere and nowhere
and you can't reason with him. 
He's not open to reason. 
~Ayn Rand




Every second evil invades my life, may my government invade theirs and take them down one day. You commit a crime when you hack my computer. Someday a form of US law enforcement should be showing up, at your door. 

I Am NOT Stupid, But Your Imbecile Mind Can Think So!


"In a fundamental sense, stillness is the antithesis of life. 
Life can be kept in existence only by 
a constant process of self-sustaining action. 
The goal of that action, the ultimate value which, 
to be kept, must be gained through 
its every moment, is the organism’s life."

~ Ayn Rand


"Man's consciousness is his least known and most abused vital organ.

Most people believe that consciousness as such is some sort of indeterminate faculty which has no nature, no specific identity and therefore, no requirements, no needs, no rules for being properly or improperly used.

The simplest example of this belief is people's willingness to lie or cheat, to fake reality on the premise that "I'm the only one who'll know" or "It's only in my mind" - without any concern for what this does to one's mind, what complex untraceable, disastrous impairments it produces, what crippling damage may result.

The loss of control over one's consciousness is the most terrifying of human experiences: a consciousness that doubts its own efficacy is in a monstrously intolerable state. Yet men abuse, subvert and starve their consciousness in a manner they would not dream of applying to their hair, toenails or stomach. They know that these things have a specific identity and specific requirements, and, if one wishes to preserve them, one must comb one's hair, trim one's toenails and refrain from swallowing rat poison. But one's mind? Aw, it needs nothing and can swallow anything. Or so most people believe. And they go on believing it while they toss in agony on a psychologist's couch, screaming that their mind keeps them in a state of chronic terror for no reason whatever . . .

The fact [is] that man's consciousness possesses a specific nature with specific cognitive needs, that it is not infinitely malleable and cannot be twisted, like a piece of putty, to fit any private evasions or any public "condition.". . .


Saturday, January 6, 2018

Can You Accurately Identify The Relationships of Units?

Unit



"The ability to regard entities as units 
is man’s distinctive method of cognition
which other living species are unable to follow."

"A unit is an existent regarded as a separate member of a group of two or more similar members. (Two stones are two units; so are two square feet of ground, if regarded as distinct parts of a continuous stretch of ground.) Note that the concept “unit” involves an act of consciousness (a selective focus, a certain way of regarding things), but that it is not an arbitrary creation of consciousness: it is a method of identification or classification according to the attributes which a consciousness observes in reality. This method permits any number of classifications and cross-classifications: one may classify things according to their shape or color or weight or size or atomic structure; but the criterion of classification is not invented, it is perceived in reality. Thus the concept “unit” is a bridge between metaphysics and epistemology: units do not exist qua units, what exists are things, but units are things viewed by a consciousness in certain existing relationships. . ."

Epistemology

"Epistemology is a science devoted to the discovery of the proper methods of acquiring and validating knowledge."



kəmˈplisit/
adjective
  1. involved with others in an illegal activity or wrongdoing.

    "all of these people are complicit in some criminal conspiracy"