The *Peter Pan Syndrome* is another hinderance to a full Capitalist appreciation.
Many kids just don’t want, nor do they need any morality to become mature adults. Facing the consequences of their actions or discovering the deeper meaning of any morality is not in the child’s agenda. Parental dependence transitions directly into dependence on others(government) these days so that the concept of *Independence* is not part of growing up.
Except in Galt’s Gulch where its a primary virtue.
Inform yourSelf & Book your place in Atlantis here:
This is why I occasionally feel as though people on the left are more amenable to Objectivism than those on the right. The pragmatic approach of “separating ethics from economics” is instinctively rejected by many of my left-leaning friends. And why not? Ethics is our calibration tool for economics, to separate the two leaves people to cross-associate theft and production, since without ethics all you can observe is the net result, and not the root causes. Why not undertake the necessary effort to replace the primary two flaws in the thinking of those on the left? The labour/paper (Marx/Keynes) theories of value can be taken apart with relative ease, and while altruism might be more difficult to extract, we haven’t extracted it from the thinking of conservatives or other right wingers either.
The left’s great strawman trick is to say if you’re not for altruism, that you’re a sadist. That you want and actually derive pleasure from seeing other suffer especially from poverty. Overcoming this brainwashing of the masses is perhaps the biggest obstacle to getting more conservatives on-board.
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The *Peter Pan Syndrome* is another hinderance to a full Capitalist appreciation.
Many kids just don’t want, nor do they need any morality to become mature adults. Facing the consequences of their actions or discovering the deeper meaning of any morality is not in the child’s agenda. Parental dependence transitions directly into dependence on others(government) these days so that the concept of *Independence* is not part of growing up.
Except in Galt’s Gulch where its a primary virtue.
Inform yourSelf & Book your place in Atlantis here:
http://www.GaltsGulchPortal/blogspot.com
. . .and see how it works in practice.
You know - *walk the walk*
And I mean it.
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This is why I occasionally feel as though people on the left are more amenable to Objectivism than those on the right. The pragmatic approach of “separating ethics from economics” is instinctively rejected by many of my left-leaning friends. And why not? Ethics is our calibration tool for economics, to separate the two leaves people to cross-associate theft and production, since without ethics all you can observe is the net result, and not the root causes. Why not undertake the necessary effort to replace the primary two flaws in the thinking of those on the left? The labour/paper (Marx/Keynes) theories of value can be taken apart with relative ease, and while altruism might be more difficult to extract, we haven’t extracted it from the thinking of conservatives or other right wingers either.
The left’s great strawman trick is to say if you’re not for altruism, that you’re a sadist. That you want and actually derive pleasure from seeing other suffer especially from poverty. Overcoming this brainwashing of the masses is perhaps the biggest obstacle to getting more conservatives on-board.