Randian Rant
Written April 5, 2002
We've often had conversations with other people regarding why our money should go to support others against our will. The standard answer is something like "because no one else will," or, "it's the right thing to do." Our standard reply is to ask why we are not entitled to the wealth we create. This question is almost never answered and usually gets us accused of selfishness. This is not a sentiment that a truly moral man would take as an insult, but I will get into that later.
I have finally found the irrefutable truth at the core of our stance. To get there you must ask yourself the opposite of our question of retaining our created wealth. Ask yourself this: "Why am I entitled to the wealth I create?" Without truly examining the nature of your self, you would answer with "because it is mine," which is a fine answer when faced with mental midgets. However, when faced with an intelligent being of opposite views, you may be unprepared for their arguments. To defeat an enemy of this sort you must get to the core. I have found it, and now give it to you. "No one else can make my mind work."
Simple, isn't it? An irrefutable absolute. The only way for anyone to fight this statement is to reveal and come to terms with their own nature (that there are no absolutes, and thus no reality). Once introduced to this concept of an absolute they are reduced to a blithering idiot talking to walls.
I cannot make you understand this absolute, but I can point you in the direction. When you find it, you will realize that you are a slave by your own choosing and that the time is approaching for you to take back the whip. When society tells us that we need more money for Social Security, healthcare, nature, etc., they come to those that create wealth saying, "We need your wealth and our need is a valid claim on that wealth." You pay your money because they have the guns, the courts, the prisons on their side. They can ruin your "life".
But can they? They can take your body or your job or your home. That is what you mean when you say that they can ruin your life. By making that statement, you abdicate your true self. You make an equivalence between your self and those things your self creates. True, they can take those things, and they are important for they are your creation, but they cannot take your self without you willingly giving it. This is why being called selfish should be a compliment.
They want you to make the equivalence of your self and your possessions. By doing so, you buy into their system of thought and validate their being. But understand their true nature; they have no self and thus want you to have none either. Because they have no self, they cling to a collective to give them identity. This is why they believe that "the people" or "the children" are more important than any individual. You have a concept of self and should be prepared to defend it.
You are a slave to them by your own conscious choice. You choose to support their flawed system even though you know it is flawed. You work for them and their claims that your ability is subservient to their needs. But will their need put food on the table or pay the power bill or build an airplane? Are you willing to continue to put food on their table while your ability to put food on yours continues to be eroded?
This is the choice you have made, but it can be changed. The time will come to take back the whip. The time will come to show them that ability is not the slave of need, but the fulfiller. The time will come to withdraw your mind from their flawed system and show them that without your ability to leech off of they cannot exist. They will realize that by violating the absolute of ability over need that they create an absolute from which they cannot escape; death.
When the minds have been withdrawn from society, when no man chooses to show ability because he knows he will be eaten, life will become what it was meant to be. Finally a world will exist where all present know that no one can force another's mind to work, and thus have no claim on its products.
We've often had conversations with other people regarding why our money should go to support others against our will. The standard answer is something like "because no one else will," or, "it's the right thing to do." Our standard reply is to ask why we are not entitled to the wealth we create. This question is almost never answered and usually gets us accused of selfishness. This is not a sentiment that a truly moral man would take as an insult, but I will get into that later.
I have finally found the irrefutable truth at the core of our stance. To get there you must ask yourself the opposite of our question of retaining our created wealth. Ask yourself this: "Why am I entitled to the wealth I create?" Without truly examining the nature of your self, you would answer with "because it is mine," which is a fine answer when faced with mental midgets. However, when faced with an intelligent being of opposite views, you may be unprepared for their arguments. To defeat an enemy of this sort you must get to the core. I have found it, and now give it to you. "No one else can make my mind work."
Simple, isn't it? An irrefutable absolute. The only way for anyone to fight this statement is to reveal and come to terms with their own nature (that there are no absolutes, and thus no reality). Once introduced to this concept of an absolute they are reduced to a blithering idiot talking to walls.
I cannot make you understand this absolute, but I can point you in the direction. When you find it, you will realize that you are a slave by your own choosing and that the time is approaching for you to take back the whip. When society tells us that we need more money for Social Security, healthcare, nature, etc., they come to those that create wealth saying, "We need your wealth and our need is a valid claim on that wealth." You pay your money because they have the guns, the courts, the prisons on their side. They can ruin your "life".
But can they? They can take your body or your job or your home. That is what you mean when you say that they can ruin your life. By making that statement, you abdicate your true self. You make an equivalence between your self and those things your self creates. True, they can take those things, and they are important for they are your creation, but they cannot take your self without you willingly giving it. This is why being called selfish should be a compliment.
They want you to make the equivalence of your self and your possessions. By doing so, you buy into their system of thought and validate their being. But understand their true nature; they have no self and thus want you to have none either. Because they have no self, they cling to a collective to give them identity. This is why they believe that "the people" or "the children" are more important than any individual. You have a concept of self and should be prepared to defend it.
You are a slave to them by your own conscious choice. You choose to support their flawed system even though you know it is flawed. You work for them and their claims that your ability is subservient to their needs. But will their need put food on the table or pay the power bill or build an airplane? Are you willing to continue to put food on their table while your ability to put food on yours continues to be eroded?
This is the choice you have made, but it can be changed. The time will come to take back the whip. The time will come to show them that ability is not the slave of need, but the fulfiller. The time will come to withdraw your mind from their flawed system and show them that without your ability to leech off of they cannot exist. They will realize that by violating the absolute of ability over need that they create an absolute from which they cannot escape; death.
When the minds have been withdrawn from society, when no man chooses to show ability because he knows he will be eaten, life will become what it was meant to be. Finally a world will exist where all present know that no one can force another's mind to work, and thus have no claim on its products.
posted by Charlie Brown at 18.11.04
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