Yes that's right about Ayn Rand including the welfare hypocrisy, got it in one Lilith7, a terrible human being, so right wing like many Russians I have known over the years.
Even though they generally don't believe in god they all seem to feel that we are on a path to some sort of enlightenment and if we all work really hard but live austere lives some how this marvelous state of being will take place; they don't seem to realize that no one is going anywhere and in fact our best days may well be behind us together as a group.
Even though they generally don't believe in god they all seem to feel that we are on a path to some sort of enlightenment and if we all work really hard but live austere lives some how this marvelous state of being will take place; they don't seem to realize that no one is going anywhere and in fact our best days may well be behind us together as a group.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche