domenica, giugno 12, 2005
:: on collectivism ::"They proclaim that every man born is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his 'minimum sustenance' - his food, his clothes, his shelter - with no effort on his part, as his due and his birhtright. To receive it - from whom? Blank-out. Every man, they announce, owns an equal share of the technological benefits created in the world. Created - by whom? Blank-out. Frantic cowards who posture as defenders of industrialists now define the purpose of economics as 'an adjustment between the unlimited desires of men and the goods supplied in limited quantity.' Supplied - by whom? Blank-out. Intellectual hoodlums who pose as professors, shrug away the thinkers of the past by declaring that their social theories were based on the impractical assumption that man was a rational being - but since men are not rational, they declare, there ought to be established a system that will make it possible for them to exist while being irrational, which means: while defying reality. Who will make it possible? Blank-out. Any stray mediocrity rushes into print with plans to control the production of mankind - and whoever agrees or disagrees with his statistics, no one questions his right to enforce his plans by means of a gun. Enforce - on whom? Blank-out. Random females with causeless incomes flitter on trips around the globe and return to deliver the message that the backward people of the world demand a higher standard of living. Demand - of whom? Blank-out."
- John Galt, 'Atlas Shrugged'
Hmmmmm I'm aware that I have to think through and digest this chunk as well as hear other views before actually damning collectivism. Thus, hehe it's time to start reading Karl Marx's 'The Communist Manifesto'.... after 'Blow Fly' (Kathy Reichs), 'Da Vinci Code' (Dan Brown), 'We the Living' (Ayn Rand).... er... I wanted to read 'A Hundred Years of Solitude' (Gabriel García Marquéz) too. Think no time la... hahahaha....
Dopey -> Lost in a sea of good books!
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