• Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

    (Ayn Rand Quotes) Remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. In a capitalist society, all human relationships are...

  • Issues That Underpin Capitalism

    The basic system that underpins capitalism is autocratic control, whereby, central systems and institutions control, manipulate, and then manoeuvre products as merchantable, thereby establishing an ordain value for a product, and thus, create a niche need. Under capitalism, everything is for sale, and the more money you have acquired, the more property and power is attainable. Freedom, just like any other commodity,...

  • What should we do when faced with adversity?

    Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received--hatred. The great creators--the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors--stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought...

  • Law, Legislation and Liberty - Hayek

    There exists no third principle for the organisation of the economics process which can be rationally chosen to achieve any desirable ends, in addition to either a functioning market in which nobody can conclusively determine how well-off particular groups or individuals will be, or a central direction where a group organised for power determines it. Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to...

  • Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

    (Ayn Rand Quotes) Remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. In a capitalist society, all human relationships are...

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Why can’t you have your cake and eat it as well?

Dec 16th

Posted by Andrew Crichton in Other Sites

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If you eat the cake, you obviously do not have it to eat anymore.

Therefore, you cannot have your cake and eat it.

Unless of course you’re bulimic. Nevertheless, that is another matter ; )

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Nihilism: The Meaninglessness of Life.

Dec 16th

Posted by Andrew Crichton in Other Sites

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The belief of Nihilism is that all values are baseless, purposeless and nothing in life can be known, communicated or proven. Often mistaken as extreme cynical pessimism, the radical and often frowned upon term condemns life as a purposeless existence without cause. The best description of a nihilistic individual is someone who believes in nothing, has no loyalties, and has no other purpose than to destroy hope and realism.

Characterised by Friedrich Nietzsche, it was often argued that that the corrosive affects of nihilism would eventually destroy all moral, religious, and metaphysical convictions, which supposedly would precipitate the greatest crisis in More >

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