I wish Ayn Rand wad my real mum:

That fraud collapsed in the 1940’s, in the aftermath of World War II. It is too obvious, too easily demonstrable that fascism and communism are not two opposites, but two rival gangs fighting over the same territory—that both are variants of statism, based on the collectivist principle that man is the rightless slave of the state—that both are socialistic, in theory, in practice, and in the explicit statements of their leaders—that under both systems, the poor are enslaved and the rich are expropriated in favor of a ruling clique—that fascism is not the product of the political “right,” but of the “left”—that the basic issue is not “rich versus poor,” but man versus the state, or: individual rights versus totalitarian government—which means: capitalism versus socialism.

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that hit the spot...

Man she is spot on.

Theres a video out there sonewhere of a guy reading sections of 'Mien Kampf' at a lefty protest as a wind-up, and all the crusties start clapping because it's fucking indistinguishable from commie-babble that it doesn't even register.

it's almost as if every mind needs some collection of ideas, to operate upon...

if you don't put in the effort, you'll fill up with all the bad ones...

commie babble is the low hanging fruit.

the low effort, fiat, easy money of ideas.

ideas so bad, they almost require that you don't even try to think them through....

unfortunately, real energy & critical thinking have been quietly engineered out of people, over the past few decades.

the same forces that gave/took it away, aren't going to hand it back, either....

I think theres enough curious minds out there, coupled with free access to information ( I can read all these amazing thinkers like Ayn Rand and Mises and Rothbard and Hazlitt and Sowell etc etc because it's on the internet, for free ), that there is substantial and significantly intelligent pushback .

Problem is, in both facism and communism, they always go after the intellectuals don't they?

Proof that facism and communism can't fight fairly in the arena of ideas. It's like that last scene in Gladiator, where the emperor shivs Maximus before the fight because it's the only way he can win.

All the censorship industrial complex stuff that is emerging now, it just goes to proove, the predominant institutions of today cannot allow the individual to reach their own conclusions, because invariably, I think it is the natural state of man to grow towards truth, the way a plant grows towards light, however slowly he does it, and the truth would mean a rejection on the power structure of today, if only for the absolute violence it imposes on the individual.

getting keyed in to truth is a big one.

how many of the worlds problems would immediately evaporate, if everyone held truth as their highest value, in all things?

Well I know the fiat scam would topple, and thats a fair chunk of the them gone.

watch this space.

I find it hard not to be hopeful, seeing whats happening on nostr, and having conversations like this...

100%, re the availability / access to information. that's a potential game changer in and of itself.

as far as the broader problem is concerned, I've come to the understanding that when people are in a certain condition, ie traumatised, nutritionally depleted, etc, they end up favouring these sorts of left wing ideas. the reason being that they lack the brain power to actually think deeply about concepts like sovereignty, personal responsibility, etc.

(I don't say this as a joke. It's a large part of the reason so many people flatly refused to look at literature that made it quite clear there would be problems, re recent medical interventions, for example).

weak people are generally afraid, and less able to take care of themselves, so they tend to favour a nanny state, who portray themselves as the caregiver. ready to bail you out, should anything go wrong...

when people get start healing, and getting stronger, eventually they regain a natural impulse to want to take care of themselves...

(This is where Ayn Rand comes in).

in my view, the bad ideas will always exist. like a world teaming with infectious bacteria...

the best thing we can do is to help people heal, become strong, and develop an immune system that simply takes no notice....