Comments by "Craxin01" (@Craxin01) on "Ayn Rand libertarian back AGAIN for more insufferable nonsense" video.

  1. “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." -John Rogers
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  2. One cannot have perfect liberty or perfect safety. Life is, and always has been, a balancing act between these extremes. You sacrifice some liberty for safety and some safety for liberty. If there was perfect liberty with no restrictions, you'd never be safe as someone stronger or a group deciding to take what you have would do so and might decide to kill you in the process. You can't be perfectly safe either as you'd have to do everything you're told even if you don't want to. The libertarian ideal is a fantasy for a world where everyone is exceptional, and no one holds more power than another.
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  3. Ah, Ayn Rand. The philosopher-in-chief to the morally and intellectually bankrupt.
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  4. Every hypercapitalist I've ever met has been a complete and total hypocrite. Ayn Rand was someone who escaped the worst form of soviet communism and leapt to its polar opposite. Hers is a philosophy of massive internal contradictions, and her descriptions of makers and takers was entirely upside down. She believed herself unique and exceptional, she was neither.
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  5. I always found Ayn Rand's philosophy entirely upside down. She ascribed makers to the wealthy and takers to the poor. The poor are the ones doing all the work making things while the wealthy do nothing but collect the fruits of that labor.
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