Making selfishness into a virtue: The charlatan of capitalism Ayn Rand squares the circle.
In this video Ayn Rand is seen explaining her so-called philosophy of "virtuous selfishness", a mountebank's favorite oxymoron.
Patrice Greanville
People who admire this witch of unrestrained capitalism want to feel good about being utterly selfish, something that American culture, in its infinite hypocrisy, approves of and stimulates at every turn, while pretending to be charitable and "Christian."
But being selfish is ugly and ultimately cancerous and destructive in any society; it murders it at its core. Juvenile readers of course fall for this claptrap, and some never recover because the entire thrust of capitalisr culture continually bolsters the ability to be completely selfish and get away with it under a mountain of spurious rationalizations. If you wonder why the US is such fucked up society, full of confused and unhinged, ignorant people, look no further: it's because they follow the beliefs of charlatans like Rand. They embrace capitalist values and never understand the consequences.
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Things to ponder
While our media prostitutes, many Hollywood celebs, and politicians and opinion shapers make so much noise about the still to be demonstrated damage done by the Russkies to our nonexistent democracy, this is what the sanctimonious US government has done overseas just since the close of World War 2. And this is what we know about. Many other misdeeds are yet to be revealed or documented.
Parting shot—a word from the editors
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