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Ayn Rand died on March 6, 1982, in her New York City apartmeant.
Ayn Rand was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, n Feburary 2, 1905.
She wrote and lectured on her philosophy—Objectivism, which she characterized as “a philosophy for living on earth." She published and edited her own periodicals from 1962 to 1976.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. ~Ayn Rand
Collectivism is a term used to describe any moral, political, or social outlook, that emphasizes the interdependence of every human in some collective group and the priority of group goals over individual goals.
Uncharted Forest
Communism is a socioeconomic structure and political ideology that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless society based on common ownership and control of the means of production and property in general.
We Are The Living Anthem Atlas Shrugged Three Plays Night of January 16th
Objectivism--If you held these concepts with total convictions, you would have a full philosophical system to guide the course of your life. but to hold them with total consistency--to understand, to defne, to prove and to apply them--requires volumes of thought.
Egoism--the habit of valuing everything only in reference to one's personal interest.
Altruism--the principle or practice of unselfish concern for or devotion to the welfare of others.
Conformity--action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices
Anthem-- A way to understand how arrogant or modest people can be to Objectiveism, Altruism, Egoism, Collectivism, Communism, and even Conformity. They don't know what they're doing but do it as long as it provides them with their happiness and wealth. Not others'' happiness or wealth.
Prometheus stole fire from Zeus and gave it to mortals. Zeus then punished him for his crime by having him bound to a rock while a great eagle ate his liver every day only to have it grow back to be eaten again the next day.
In the begining there was only chaos. Then out of the void appeared Erebus, the unknowable place where death dwells, and Night. All else was empty, silent, endless, darkness. Then somehow Love was born bringing a start of order. From Love came Light and Day. Once there was Light and Day, Gaea, the earth appeared.
FREEDOM!
Galileo's championing of Copernicanism was controversial within his lifetime, when a large majority of philosophers and astronomers still subscribed (at least outwardly) to the geocentric view that the Earth is at the centre of the universe. After 1610, when he began publicly supporting the heliocentric view, which placed the Sun at the centre of the universe, he met with bitter opposition from some philosophers and clerics, and two of the latter eventually denounced him to the Roman Inquisition early in 1615.
