Change for a Twenty

The thing about people who deny and feel that they can disprove carbon dating, evolution, and the big bang, is that they’re implying that they know more about it than the actual geologists, paleontologists, biologists, and physicists that use these facts as fundamental building blocks for their entire professions. Just because you do not understand a concept does not mean that it is false.

Science does not have a liberal, anti-theistic agenda; it looks only for the truth. 

I don’t know whether you’re posting this as means to espouse your own views, but I honestly couldn’t disagree more. Rand was sociopathic on a good day. If one never worries about any but oneself, what kind of person are they? Loveless and miserable.

I identify with most of Objectivist philosophy, but often not to the extent Rand intended it. I think every person should be the most important person in their own life, but to entirely cut out any sacrifice for others is to stop being human and inevitably cut yourself off from allowing anyone to enjoy you. So I believe self interest should always be the number one, but never the only thing considered. That aside, the only other thing with Rand I really disagree on is her stress for laissez-faire capitalism, as unregulated capitalism ends in an economic autocracy. I’m pro capitalism, but also very pro union, as otherwise the human element is left entirely disregarded.

At a sales conference at Random House, preceding the publication of Atlas Shrugged, one of the book salesmen asked me whether I could present the essence of my philosophy while standing on one foot. I did as follows:

1. Metaphysics Objective Reality
2. Epistemology Reason
3. Ethics Self-interest
4. Politics Capitalism

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