Ayn Rand's Timeless Warning About the Collapse of America's Educational System

"I feel that this country is being destroyed by its philosophy. Specifically, by its universities. The most dangerous thing in this country today are the universities, because they are teaching the kind of ideas that would necessarily have to lead to the destruction of this country."

[@KufMurt-ze1ck]

Wonderful that Rand relied on social security to pay her hospital bills

[@philip8551]

Listen I'm all for Ayn Rand hate but she did pay into the system for a good chunk of her life.

[@johnnynick3621]

Ayn Rand died a very wealthy woman. She left almost $1Million to an institute that bears her name and teaches her philosophy to this day. She did NOT need Social Security. Like every American, she was FORCED to pay Social Security taxes and just like every other wealthy American...like Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey and Hillary Clinton... Ayn Rand received Social Security payments as reimbursement for those FORCED contributions. What is interesting, however, is that instead of disputing her statements on this video, you attempt to discredit her by pointing out something so silly. We all know why. When you are incapable of using logic and reason to dispute facts you dislike... your kind are trained to instead try using mockery and ridicule. It may have worked with some people in the past... but very few fall for it now.

[@Overtonnews]

@@johnnynick3621 You're absolutely correct. Critics often wield this misconception to undermine Rand's life rather than evaluate the merits of her philosophy. It’s a classic straw man fallacy that appeals to those who either don't understand Objectivism or simply choose not to.

[@yvesgomez]

Ayn Rand and her people paved the way to our modern society. I mean : this nightmare.

[@johnnynick3621]

How silly. Virtually none of the things Ayn Rand advocated was ever implemented in society... NOTHING... and yet somehow, SHE is responsible for "this nightmare". This is the kind of illogical, irrational deranged thought that drives most people today. Idiocy.

[@ushojedi]

Wow! Brilliant. Today we're no longer ruled by wise people but the merchants. Their moral compass as we know is broken. And we are pervaded by a lowest common denominator authoritarian parental voice of 'health and safety' in all areas of life, in which we choose almost nothing for ourselves about what is included in our society.

[@joesabet2001]

An evil intellectual, as Chomsky once said

[@CHN-yh3uv]

Chomsky 🤣

[@johnnynick3621]

Yeah.... that's citing a great authority.... Chomsky.... a pseudo intellectual communist that never actually had a real job yet gets to live like the wealthy people he claims he despises.... and YOU get to support him in that lifestyle.... there really is a sucker born every minute.

[@jepulis6674]

She was right. It was destroyed by teaching her utter shite as economic science :D

[@sizor3ds]

shes such a stupid clown

[@oneness8648]

In the joy of others lies our own, In the progress of others rests our own, In the good of others abides our own, Know this to be the key to peace and happiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj

[@neilwilson5785]

She was rich, but did not have the $1 billion need to build a hospital for herself. She just need to work a bit harder to get it. She then needed to work even harder to get her trash collected. and her water purified. She needed to do all that. And also buy a military to protect herself.

[@kenabelson8423]

I thought the thumbnail was Johnny Cash. I didn't know it was Dr. Ruth Westheimer.

[@neilwarren4573]

Not one single person in the whole world would be alive today without altruism. We are all born as helpless babes..

[@samthespartan0]

Big Facts!!

[@Slarti]

I am not a fan of Ayn Rand, but I have to say she is spot on with everything she says here!

[@isqueirus]

What an impostor! The ONLY thing she did quite well was analysing American society and and just speak what people wanted to hear

[@joeb8383]

What a despicable individual

[@lukecavill2556]

Because?

[@johnnynick3621]

Tell us why you consider her despicable Joey. Is it because she advocated for logic and reason over force and coercion as the proper way for men to interact with one another? Is it because she insisted that men NOT be treated as sacrificial animals and slaves subject to the whims of a mob majority? Is it because she believed that men should be free to produce and create and keep the fruits of their own labor, only trading with one another voluntarily? Which of her core principles do you deem despicable, Joey?

[@joeb8383]

@@johnnynick3621 ...no, that we can all get behind those values or concepts if you state them this way...but behind those words, you need to understand what she means: an established society rely on rules that each member agrees to follow, like paying a certain amount of taxes. What can force someone who do not want to pay but still enjoy the fruit of said society? Only coercion. Then the question becomes phylosophical: when is too much ? And that's where she failed miserably in addressing this question because she is an ideologue, not a philisopher. The real fundamental core issue I have with her is when she says that altruism and by extension, compassion is a flaw. I think that's the only shield against the excess of capitalism. Anyway it's a bit too complicated for me to express that in a foreign language and on a KZbin comment. I just think she's overly simplistic and her ideology is no better than the lefty liberal ideologies that are the cancer of our modern universities.

[@johnnynick3621]

@@joeb8383 Members of society do NOT agree to pay taxes.... they are FORCED to pay taxes.... violently. When did I agree to give up half my income to the government? Show me the document I signed that said YES.... take half my income... or more. What "fruits of society" do I want to use...? Roads? I pay for my use of roads through a gasoline "tax".... why should I also have to pay to use those roads through a city, state or federal tax. What other "fruits of society" am I being FORCED to pay for? Schools? No.... I sent my kids to private schools because public schools are horrible.... so I paid TWICE... I paid to school my own kids and YOURS. There are NO "fruits of society" that I want that can't be provided privately for less money and with better results. If we were only talking about taxes that funded the things a "just" government SHOULD do.... which is protection of individual rights.... I would be more inclined to agree that society should pay for those functions.... though I might disagree on how those funds should be raised... but we are clearly so far beyond that stage today as to make it absurd. Moving on to your silly assertion that Ayn Rand says that "altruism and by extension, compassion is a flaw...." demonstrates your lack of understanding on the meaning of the word "altruism". Altruism is NOT compassion. Altruism is NOT kindness. Altruism is NOT doing good deeds. Altruism is the philosophy that dictates that in order to be a moral person you must sacrifice for others that which you value.... and you must receive nothing of value in return. It is based on the writings of French philosopher Auguste Comte whose theory of "positivism" influenced the development of organized "Humanism". This is an evil theory.... primarily because it dictates that man's only valid purpose is to act as a sacrificial animal to others... but also because it sets a moral standard that is literally impossible for any human being to achieve. Ayn Rand was not some evil ogre, as her critics paint her. She was a lover of what is the BEST of man... of man's ability for rational thought and production. She loved man's accomplishments and their success in the face of adversity. Her critics despise her for that. Rand's critics are proponents of collectivism. They hate individualism...in all its forms. They see her philosophy as a direct threat to their dominance in the intellectual realm. Those who have never studied Ayn Rand should refrain from commenting about her philosophy. They make themselves look and sound silly.

[@brentbrown535]

😂 never take advice about how a country should be run from an Eastern European 😂

[@CHN-yh3uv]

You mean the people that lived under communism? Who better? They know all the “don’ts”

[@theresamiller6178]

We are almost there MS Rand.

[@gounonbastien2556]

Aristotle teaches virtue and the golden mean, not pride, arrogance, and unbridled consumerism. He was also the first to conceptualise and undermine the idea of accumulating wealth for the sole reason of accumulating even more wealth, which he called chrematistics. I'm really not sure what she's talking about.

[@renaissanceman9034]

@@gounonbastien2556 Neither was she. She was nothing but a cult leader who wasn't taken seriously by any philosopher.

[@gounonbastien2556]

@@renaissanceman9034 Oh right. I had never heard of her so I didn't know. She did strike me as a rather odd

[@drcorson]

What a strange, nonsensical and sad diatribe