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13 years ago @ Breitbart.tv - Rob Lowe: Conservative... · 0 replies · +2 points
The formulation of philosophical ideas requires the personal responsibility of observing, judging and integrating the facts of reality on an enormous scale; the faking of ideas requires only the outwitting of careless, frightened or ignorant men. [...]
The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. [...] There is only one source of authentic self-confidence : reason. [...]
What this country needs is a philosophical revolution - a rebellion against the Kantian tradition - in the name of the first of our Founding Fathers: Aristotle. This means a reassertion of the supremacy of reason, with its consequences: individualism, freedom, progress, civilization.
13 years ago @ Breitbart.tv - Rob Lowe: Conservative... · 0 replies · +1 points
the process of self-stultification {to be illogic} is initiated by the child who lies too often and gets away with it. [...] He learns, in effect, that he can get whatever he wants not by observing facts, but by inventing them and by cheating, begging, threatening, [...] by manipulating the adults. He concludes implicitly that reality is his enemy, since he has to fake it - to lie - in order to obtain what he wants, that the truth would defeat him and that he'd better not be concerned with it. Reality does not obey him, it frustrates his wishes, it is impervious to his feelings. [...]
Language, to him, is merely some arbitrary code of signals which he can manipulate without having to confront reality. It was by means of language that he used to control others [...] Such, in pattern, is the birth of the intellectual who believes that ideas are tools of deception. [...]
The hater of the good becomes [...] "the idiot-philosopher", a man who is unable to grasp the relation of ideas to reality, but devotes his life to the manufacture, propagation and manipulation of ideas - as a means of sustaining his pseudo-self-esteem. [...]
13 years ago @ Breitbart.tv - Rob Lowe: Conservative... · 0 replies · +1 points
Man cannot deal with reality on the merely perceptual level of awareness; his survival requires a conceptual method of mental functioning -but the conceptual level of awareness is volitional. Man may choose to function conceptually or not. Most men stumble through the transition from the predominantly perceptual functioning of childhood to the conceptual functioning of adulthood with various degrees of success, and settle on some precarious mixture of both methods. The hater of the good is the man who did not make this transition.
[...] The hater's mental functioning remains on the level of childhood. Nothing is fully real to him except the concrete, the perceptually given, i.e., the immediate moment without past or future. [...] a hater regards his emotions as irreducible and irresistible, as a power he cannot question or disobey. [
[...] The hater has no lasting value-judgments, only the random urges of a given moment.
How does a human being descend to such a state? [...]
13 years ago @ Breitbart.tv - Rob Lowe: Conservative... · 0 replies · +1 points
[...] Its clearest manifestation is the attitude of a person who characteristically resents someone's success, happiness, achievement or good fortune - and experience pleasure at someone's failure, unhappiness or misfortune.
[...] This is particularly clear in the much more virulent cases of hatred, masked as envy, for those who possess personal values or virtues: hatred for a man (or a woman) because he (or she) is beautiful or intelligent or successful or honest or happy. In these cases, the creature has no desire and makes no effort to improve its appearance, to develop or to use its intelligence, to struggle for success, to practice honesty, to be happy (nothing can make it happy). It knows that the disfigurement or the mental collapse or the failure or the immorality or the misery of its victims would not endow {give} it with his or her value. It does not desire the value: it desires the value's destruction.
[...] What is the cause? The answer lies in the nature of man's consciousness.
13 years ago @ Breitbart.tv - Rob Lowe: Conservative... · 1 reply · +1 points
[...] Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition {the act of willing, choosing, or resolving} leads men to make different choices, the egalitarians propose to abolish the "unfairness" of nature and of volition [...] Since personal attributes or virtues cannot be "redistributed," they seek to deprive men of their consequences - of the rewards, the benefits, the achievements created by personal attributes or virtues.
[...] Today, we live in the Age of Envy.
13 years ago @ Breitbart.tv - Rob Lowe: Conservative... · 0 replies · +1 points
The far left displays itself as a champion of minorities' rights (gay's rights, women 'rights, etc) and yet it will side on the Palestinian state which is composed of Muslims who follow the Sharia laws (kill gays, ok to beat women, honor killings, etc).
The far left knows the Muslim's intolerance but yet we must be tolerant to them. Why?
The answer is from Ayn Rand in "The return of the primitive.":
13 years ago @ Breitbart.tv - John Stossel's Reveali... · 3 replies · +5 points
If you believe that all black Americans are entitled to money as reparation for slavery, so every white Yankee's family descendants who died in the civil war to end slavery does to.
It is not possible to demand money/reparation for an action that was legal at that time. The constitution states "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed."
14 years ago @ Breitbart.tv - Taiwanese Animation: T... · 0 replies · 0 points
[The officer] put his hand in between my underwear and my skin and did a 360 all the way around, touching certain sensitive points in the back and the front.'
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=13249785
14 years ago @ Breitbart.tv - Taiwanese Animation: T... · 0 replies · +2 points
Chicago Woman With Artificial Knees Groped By TSA Agents at St. Louis Airport
14 years ago @ Breitbart.tv - Taiwanese Animation: T... · 0 replies · +1 points
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWwqoR_lxIU&fe...
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