Mike Wallace interview with Ayn Rand from 1959. Imagine this woman as your crazy aunt at Christmas dinner. Rands logic is fundamentally flawed. Altruism, collective action and service to others is built into human nature for a reason: it helped us overcome obstacles we could not overcome on our own. It is a fundamental aspect of our humanity. To deny these urges of within us is itself unnatural. And the belief you can have a civilized society predicated on selfish urges without government to stop the sociopaths and the greedy from running amok is just silly.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 11:17:49 +0000