Five Reasons to Celebrate Ayn Rand

Contemplate, challenge and check the thinker to enrich your life on earth

Because she challenges today’s ideals, you’re more likely to prosper if you think about Ayn Rand’s philosophy and writing. Altruism, the idea that you only exist to help others—that you are a means to the ends of others—and that helping others is paramount is anathema to Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism. If you get nothing else from reading this article, know that Ayn Rand is the only prominent thinker to oppose altruism as immoral. Accordingly, she rejected altruism’s relational ideal, collectivism. These twin evils—Rand regarded altruism as the root of evil—dominate today’s culture, politics and government. From edicts and pressure to help others to faith in a leader, technology and the corporation and the concomitant policy of sameness and obedience to the government doctor, dictate and lockdown, collectivism and especially altruism destroy and inhibit life. Rand proposed and developed the antithesis: a system of rational thought to guide and promote your life.

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