I have long thought some version of what you are expecting/hoping to see happen as explained in this piece will eventually take hold - people will get so fed up with the contradictions and lack of freedom in their lives that they will inevitably learn what is causing it and find the honest answers to those problems. Answers that are available to them from many forums. I have been pushing these ideas in my own small way for 25 years as I know you have. I am forever and continuously stymied, however, by the lack of even the remotest ability to think logically in principle on any philosophical topic by most people including the so-called 'intellectuals' who are running our lives via politics, ethics and esthetics. I blame the education most people receive and the inherent second-handedness so brilliantly depicted in 'The Fountainhead'. I am beginning to believe Yaron's Brook is right. What is needed is art - some depiction of the shining world our philosophy would bring that would become as popular as the Star Wars, Harry Potter - type series have become. Only then will people start to see concretely what they are missing in their present world, and will be receptive to the fundamental ideas that support that shining new world. A tall task for someone, maybe some young Objectivist going through ARU right now.
Again, this 3rd iteration of your article "nails it!"
Let's discuss this on Thursday. As I previously intimated, I have an idea that may, if properly articulated, ignite what perhaps requires a spark to begin the needed moral "conflagration."
I have long thought some version of what you are expecting/hoping to see happen as explained in this piece will eventually take hold - people will get so fed up with the contradictions and lack of freedom in their lives that they will inevitably learn what is causing it and find the honest answers to those problems. Answers that are available to them from many forums. I have been pushing these ideas in my own small way for 25 years as I know you have. I am forever and continuously stymied, however, by the lack of even the remotest ability to think logically in principle on any philosophical topic by most people including the so-called 'intellectuals' who are running our lives via politics, ethics and esthetics. I blame the education most people receive and the inherent second-handedness so brilliantly depicted in 'The Fountainhead'. I am beginning to believe Yaron's Brook is right. What is needed is art - some depiction of the shining world our philosophy would bring that would become as popular as the Star Wars, Harry Potter - type series have become. Only then will people start to see concretely what they are missing in their present world, and will be receptive to the fundamental ideas that support that shining new world. A tall task for someone, maybe some young Objectivist going through ARU right now.
Again, this 3rd iteration of your article "nails it!"
Let's discuss this on Thursday. As I previously intimated, I have an idea that may, if properly articulated, ignite what perhaps requires a spark to begin the needed moral "conflagration."