Sunday, 5 February 2023

"Psychologically, [the goal] is the erosion of ambition."

 

"Politically, the goal of today's dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
    "The political goal presupposes the two others."

~ Ayn Rand, from her essay 'Tax Credits for Education,' included in the collection The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought  [hat tip Society for Reason]

 

3 comments:

Michael said...

Peter, please share these pieces on Facebook! Here there is no follow option, and I don’t always check your site, so it’s much better when they show up in fb timelines.

Anonymous said...

How true. Nothing has changed for thousands of years.

Duncan Bayne said...

Michael, just use a feed aggregator app! The feed for this blog is at http://pc.blogspot.com.au/atom.xml, and once subscribed, you'll get notifications whenever Peter posts new content.

There are *many* feed aggregators out there - some free, some proprietary, some local apps, some Web-based ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_feed_aggregators