Ayn Rand - How Is This Still A Thing?: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Ayn Rand - How Is This Still A Thing?: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Vaya, no perdamos nunca el sentido del humor. Nada es realmente tan sagrado como el sentido del humor.
“It boils down to this. The measure of mental health in a person is the degree of their interest in others. That could be their neighbours, or it could be social and political.”
#selfishness #greed #EconomicElites #TechBros #libertarianism #AynRand
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Zoe Williams surveys the landscape of self-help books right now, noting,
"If you yearn for an Ayn Randian existence of absolute self-reliance, there are plenty of bestsellers that can help. They may not make you happier though."
Contra the "Trumpy" philosophy of this literature, she cites psychotherapist Manu Bazzano, who observes,
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"They’re evangelizing a worldview where selfishness is wisdom and concern for others is performance.
This spreads through elite networks, through media that treats cynicism as insight, through algorithmic systems that reward sociopathic behavior with attention and profit."
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"When Marc Andreessen describes liberation as freedom from 'having to pretend to care about other people at dinner parties,' when venture capitalists celebrate 'disruption' that destroys communities while enriching investors, when tech platforms optimize for engagement regardless of democratic consequences—they’re not just acting selfishly."
~ Mike Brock
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https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-birth-of-the-sociopath-why-smart
via Roger Head at Eschaton
new ayn rand just dropped
(related: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/make-argentina-gold-again )
#argentina #milei #javierMilei #bailout #uspol #aynRand #atlasShrugged #meme #memes #libertarian #libertarians #libertarianism