Tag: Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand’s Message to America
In 1959 Mike Wallace interviewed Ayn Rand on his program The Mike Wallace Interview. This was Rand’s first major interview on television and came two years after the release of her most prominent work, Atlas Shrugged.
While this video is over 50 years old, the format and content is timeless. Ayn Rand was brilliant in the articulation of her philosophy and her perspective and did an excellent job of engaging Mike Wallace without running him over.
Atlas Society
In this fascinating interview, a young Mike Wallace interviews Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. She states that the world is moving towards “disaster” and “destruction” and “complete collectivism” or “socialism.” This she ties to the implementation of the welfare state and its undermining of individual rights. The welfare state is leading us toward a society where “everyone is enslaved to everyone else” she argues. Wallace counters that this system came about democratically. Does Ayn Rand oppose that democratic process? Rand explains that the majority may not vote away inalienable rights: it may not vote away the property, life, or freedom of others. Individual rights are a limit on what the majority may do politically. How then should we move forward? Rand says, by “voluntary cooperation,” “voluntary action,” free from force.
This interview will be of interest to Tea Party activists and libertarians of all stripes, as well as those seeking a quick explanation of Ayn Rand’s political views.
Arkansas Mom Destroys Common Core In 4 Minutes
We need more people like Karen Lamoreaux to speak the truth. Common Core is nothing more than Social Engineering.
Hopefully this video will wake some people up.
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An ordinary mother of three eviscerated Common Core state standards in her powerful four-minute testimony before the Arkansas Board of Education Monday.
The testimony comes in the wake of major protests against the uniform guidelines. The mom, a member of Arkansas Against Common Core, and identified as Karen Lamoreaux, testified that rather than “a set of rigorous, college-ready international benchmark standards” that the Common Core initiative was touted to be, it tends to dumb down math solutions by, ironically, overcomplicating them.
As an example, she gave the board a simple fourth-grade division problem, which Common Core requires students to use 108 steps to solve.
“The academia-jet set coalition is attempting to tame the American character by the deliberate breeding of helplessness and resignation—in those incubators of lethargy known as “Progressive” schools, which are dedicated to the task of crippling a child’s mind by arresting his cognitive development.” ~ Ayn Rand
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