Wednesday, November 29, 2017

When Self-Defense/Force May and Should Be Used


Self-Defense



"The necessary consequence of man’s right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. All the reasons which make the initiation of physical force an evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative..."
~ Ayn Rand, "The Nature of Government," The Virtue of Selfishness, 108


"Just as an individual has the right of self-defense, so has a free country if attacked. But this does not give its government the right to draft men into military service—which is the most blatantly statist violation of a man’s right to his own life..."

~ Ayn Rand, "The Roots of War," For the New Intellectual, 40

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

2 Fundamental Values Intellectuals Should Advocate For




"The new intellectuals now should be those men who will stand up for two fundamental values.
The value of their own life, of their alienable rights, of their self esteem, their independence and the value of a non coercive free society in which men do not use force against one another."
~Ayn Rand

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

How NOT To Rule Men - Must Listen To




"Can you rule a thinking man? We don't want any thinking man."
~ The Fountainhead, Ellsworth Toohey



"The fountainhead: the words of Ellsworth Toohey:

"If you learn how to rule one single man's soul you can get the rest of man kind."


There are many ways here's one:

- Make man feel small
- Make him feel guilty
- Kill his aspiration and his integrity
- Preach selflessness
- Tell man he must live for others
- Tell men altruism is the idea
Not a single one of them has ever achieved it and not a single one ever will.


Man realizes he is incapable of what he has accepted as the noblest virtue and it gives him a sense of:

- guilt
- of sin
- of his own basic unworthiness,
You got him. He'll be glad to obey, because he can't trust himself, he feels uncertain, he feels unclean that's one way.


Here's another:

Kill man's sense of values, kill his capacity to recognize greatness, or to achieve it, don't deny the conception of greatness, destroy it from within.

Laughter is an instrument of human joy, learn to use it as a weapon of destruction, turn it into a sneer, don't let anything remain sacred in a man's soul and his soul won't be sacred to him.


"Kill reverence and you have killed the hero in man." 



Here's another way: this is most important

Don't allow men to be happy, happiness is self contained and self sufficient. Happy men have no time and use for you. Happy men are free men so kill their joy in living, take away whatever is dear or important to them, make them feel that the mere fact of a personal desire is evil.

Bring them to a state where saying "I Want" is no longer a natural right, but a shameful admission.

Altruism is a great help in this. Everything enjoyable from sex, to ambition, to the profit motive is considered depraved or sinful.

Just prove that a thing makes man happy and you have damned it. That's how far we have come. We have tied happiness to guilt and we've got mankind by the throat

You must tell people that they'll achieve a superior kind of happiness by giving up everything that makes them happy. That's the oldest one of all.

It stands to reason that where there's a sacrifice, there is someone collecting sacrificial offerings.

Where there is service, there is someone being served.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters and intends to be the master.

I said it stands to reason, do you see? Men have a weapon against you, reason, so you must be very sure to take it away from them.

Cut the props from under it but be careful, never deny anything outright, just say that, reason is limited, that there is something above it. What, oh you don't have to be too clear about it, you tell him he must not try to think, he must feel, he must believe, suspend reason and you play it deuces wild. Anything goes, in any manner you wish, whenever you need it, you've got him."


"Can you rule a thinking man? We don't want any thinking men."
~ The Fountainhead, Ellsworth Toohey



Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Battle For Freedom, "Stand Up and Name The Injustice"




"Any battle for freedom past, or present had enormous risks involved."
~Onkar Ghate



"What we are trying to do, is bring a moral dimension to policy and political issues. Our focus is on the positive. 

We are about the issue of "Justice" for a group or class of people that have never been acknowledged as good or moral. A focus on justice requires both what is bad, evil that has to be opposed, to achieve justice you have to focus on this. Then a positive of what you advocate for and look up to. 

Most major causes in history seemed discouraging.

- The Revolution and Declaring Independence

- The Abolitionist

- Slavery

- Women's Suffrage

- Civil Rights

- Gay Pride

- Businessmen 

All of these at the outset looked like hopeless causes. They were subject to injustice and declared they would not put up with it anymore. Would not accept this anymore. We have to much self-esteem to put up with it. We demand something better and this is what a fight for freedom looks like. 

We are trying to get the better people in the world to understand and what is needed to fight injustice. In order to combat this you need to stand up and name the injustice and frame it in a positive. There is a major element of what is needed in fighting injustice and that is naming the injustice in the context of a positive. 

This is what a fight for freedom and liberty would be. Demand Freedom, Justice and Civil Rights. If you make that kind of stand it is possible to succeed." ~ Onkar Ghate