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Once in a while,

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we listen to a talk and we know

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we have experienced something

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special.

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We know we have experienced something memorable,

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and we know that this talk

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will stay with us for a long time.

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For many of us in the object community,

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such a talk was 1 that my colleague,

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doctor Ron Ga gave back in 2007,

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It was a talk with the memorable title,

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Atlas Rad

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America's second

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declaration of independence.

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And today, we'll get the chance to what's

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this memorable talk again and we'll have the

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chance to watch it together.

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Because America's independence day is approaching,

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and we thought this is a very fitting

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opportunity

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to link

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a unique novel, the ideas of... And the

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values of a unique novel, with the ideas

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and the values of a unique

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country.

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We also want you to support us in

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our efforts to share these

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revolutionary methods of Atlas ra.

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To help more people come across the moral

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revolution of iron rand, a revolution that She

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saw. As the continuation of the political

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revolution and of the spirit of the fourth

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of July.

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And before we what's the talk, actually, there

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will be a broadcast. We will... What's only

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the main part of the talk, not the

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introduction, not the Q and A will just

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watch on

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lecture. But before we brought broadcast a talk,

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I have with me today On encore himself

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for a short

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introduction before the the broadcast.

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So On I watched this talk

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some years ago, and the time I was

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watching it. I thought, okay. This is a

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love letter.

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To the country country. This is a love

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letter

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to the ideas that made America

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special and the people that make this country

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possible.

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But my first question to you has to

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do with the title itself, because this is

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the first thing that stuck out for me.

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America's second declaration of independence. And this second

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declaration of independence is a novel. How did

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you come up with this concept?

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It it's really what the story of Atlas

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shrugged is about. So if you think of

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the parallel

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between the founding of America and what Atlas

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shrugged is about. Start with the founding of

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in the run up to the declaration of

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independence, the I mean, what we would now

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call the Americans

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are trying to find common ground, trying to

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appease, make terms with compromise

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with Britain.

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And they find over, like, a period of

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decades that they're just unable to do it.

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And this... The last straw is we need

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to declare our own independence and thinking of

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the of some of the wording of the

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declaration. Of our... Assume our status as equal.

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new nation where they're equal of Britain or

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a France. So they're assuming their own place

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individual or full adult in the world. And

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what atlas front is about is about that's

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of it's about the men who are enormously

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productive have a great ability

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intelligence. The kind of people who built America,

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and they've been over a period of a

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long time. Been trying to find some kind

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of common ground make terms compromise

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with their actual opponents and enemies. And what

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stop doing that. And so you can... The

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way that I put it is that you're

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declaring your moral independence. We're assuming our place

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in the world and in our society, and

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citizens,

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there to be exploited. It's that's what the

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novel about. And in that sense, it's it

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parallel to the story of the creation of

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on the 1 hand, the protagonist of July

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fourth, the founding fathers. And when it comes

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to ultra strikes, it's ai rand.

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idea that Time run fills this

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bond towards the founding fathers. So how does

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hair ideas relate to the ideas of the

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founding fathers?

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admiration for the founding fathers for the creation

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of America and particularly for the declaration of

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independence, and that's another link of why I

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titled it. Like this, she called the declaration

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of independence,

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the greatest

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political document in human history.

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And and she meant it. Like, what that

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was not hyper, she meant that

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and defending America and 1 way you can

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to focus it. In the

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declaration, probably,

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the most radically new idea, and there's a

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lot of radical new ideas in the declaration

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that an

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individual should

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pursue his own happiness. He has the right

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to do that. That right should be protect

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it. Governments are instituted to protect his rights

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and the end of what he's after is

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to achieve his own happiness.

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it a moral level, does

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anybody champion and fend the pursuit of happiness.

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individual happiness,

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I ran an Atlas shrugged. And so to

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think of it, like, what is it that

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celebrating and then giving a much deeper

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explanation and defense for. It's the idea that

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you should you should it's right morally right

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to pursue your own happiness. And that's what

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the at the shrugged is about and about

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the heroes of the story,

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learning to do that and learning to do

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that fully. And it's, again, it's it's a

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tie to what the declaration of independence and

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the American revolution is about if you understand

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it at a deep philosophical level.

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Right. 1 last question because I know everyone

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in our audience is looking forward to the

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broadcast is looking forward to the lecture itself.

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But I have to ask you. You gave

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this lecture in 2007.

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We are at 2024.

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2 today. Are you more optimistic about where

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the country is going, are you more optimistic

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that this moral revolution that I run and

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I'm more optimistic in this sense. It's

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our mission at the institute at at I,

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where you work where I work at. Ina

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ran Institute is to get Ina iran's new

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ideas and especially her new moral ideas, the

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moral

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revolution that she's launching an Atlas shrugged to

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get that into more people's minds

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is to get atlas shrugged into more people's

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hands into readers or gonna to to consume

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the book and the story, and it as

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you know, it's a it's a mystery story.

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It's an exciting story. So it... It ignites

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we're trying to get bigger and bigger, but

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doubled or tripled in size since I've been

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here. So we're getting more effective at getting

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our message out. But we know it's a

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long term

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struggle. And it's and it's a it's a...

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Our mission is long term. It's not, like,

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years from now than now. And again, more

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people 10 years from now than 5. But

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take time. It's part of why we need

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support because it's a long change project.

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than changing people's moral ideas. So to get

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this enlightenment

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idea that the pursuit of happiness

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is what your life should be about, and,

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directions and avenues, the opposite of that. So

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for this idea to really take hold. It's

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gonna be long term. It's it's a long

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term prospects. But the idea is right,

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and the proof of this, and this is

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I ran off and said that the proof

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that the idea is right, is the success

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of America, and particularly its success

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so insofar as it lived up to the

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promise of the declaration of

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independence. And so

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what we should be seen is success building

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in their own lives and they dedicate their

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own lives to the pursuit of their own

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happiness. And when people see that, it's... They

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effect on in. Like, I want some of

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that. And that's how the the ideas and

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the philosophy will grow, and I'm certainly optimistic

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long term. That this will succeed.

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1 last thing before we travel back in

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and we find ourselves in that beautiful hotel

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where the talk was given. I have a

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request for our viewers.

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Help us get this book in the hands

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of more people. Picture this. Picture an idea

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young person, which is already burning with the

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fire of

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wanting to do something with their life of

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wanting to change the world of wanting to

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be something be given than what they are

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at the moment, and imagine that young the

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realistic person coming

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into contact with Atlas tract. This is what

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we are trying to do, but we need

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your help. So you have the chance right

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now to help us By going to in

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rand dot org slash donate

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whatever

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you think is

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is whatever you can give to help us

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again, pass the button of this model revolution

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to more and more young people.

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I will be in the comments and we

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are all what's together this

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talk by An, but from 2007,

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Atlas Sr, American second declaration of independence. On.

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Thank you very much. And

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I'll see the 2007

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non card in a few seconds in the

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script.

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Great. Thanks Steve. Let's begin.

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The Ina rand institute mission. Is no doubt

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an ambitious 1.

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We're trying to help bring about an intellectual

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change in the culture.

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That will restore and revitalize

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America's

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foundation.

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And perhaps our most important activity in this

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regard. Is to get Ina Rand novels

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into the hands of Americans.

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And the most vital of her novels to

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get into their hands is atlas shrugged.

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Now why?

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Why do we believe that the foundation of

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America needs restoring

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And what does a novel a work of

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fiction have to do with anything,

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much less with the course of a culture

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and the fate of a nation.

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Now, these are the questions I'm gonna try

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to answer tonight.

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My focus is not gonna be on the

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novels, on the details of the novels story.

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And I'm gonna try to avoid as many

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plots oil as I can for those who

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have not yet read the enough.

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My focus is going to be on atlas

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shrug cultural importance.

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Now to understand that cultural importance, we must

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first rewind

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about 230

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years

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to the birth of the nation

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and see what the American

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revolution,

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both accomplished

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and failed to accomplish.

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It's easy to forget how radically new an

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idea America is.

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The founding fathers invented a new form of

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government.

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All previous forms of government had concentrated

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power into the hands of the state at

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the expense of the individual.

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The theo placed power into the hands of

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priests and pope,

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who as spokesman for the supernatural

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or to be ab obeyed without question.

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Monarchy

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placed power into the hands of a king

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or a queen,

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whose subjects lived and died by the rulers

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Edi.

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Ari

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placed power into the hands of a hereditary

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elite.

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Who tram on members of the lower classes.

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Democracy placed power into the hands of the

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majority

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who could do whatever they wish to the

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minority.

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In all these systems, rec

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individuals

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were dealt with in the same way.

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They were greeted with the instruments of physical

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comp

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with imprisonment,

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torture

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death.

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The priests placed galileo

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under house arrest and burned bruno at the

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stake.

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The king beheaded, Thomas Moore.

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The aristocrats

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tram upon the individual peasants on mass.

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Sometimes to literally so that literally they could

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bathe in the peasant blood.

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The at opinion democracy

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ordered

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socrates to drink Hem.

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To all such outrageous, the founding fathers said

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no more

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They devised a political system

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that placed power into the hands of the

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individual at the expense of the state

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The individual they declared

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possesses the ina in both rights to life,

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liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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The government does not stand above the individual

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as is master.

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The government stands below the individual as its

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servant.

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To secure these rights, Jefferson wrote in the

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declaration of independence,

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governments are instituted among men

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deriving their just powers from the consent of

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the government.

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And if a government tres on the rights

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of the individual, quote, it is the right

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of the people to alter or to abolish

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it and to institute new government.

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Close quote.

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Now in the declaration, the founding fathers were

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of course declaring

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independence from great britain.

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But more deeply, they were declaring independence from

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priests and from kings from a aristocrats and

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from the will of the majority.

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They were creating a sanctuary

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for individuals, for individuals with un bound minds

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for the galileo and the socrates of the

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world who are now to meet with a

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different fate.

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Now what motivated

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the founding fathers to take the incredibly dangerous

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action of creating a new country.

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Why? Did they risk their lives, their fortunes

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and their sacred honor?

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The

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the key to understanding the founding father's

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motivation is that they were this worldly

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fact based

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ideal,

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As students of the enlightenment of Europe's age

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of reason, the founding fathers believed in the

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perfect

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of man

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If man un

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uses his rational mind. And if he carefully

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studies and

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formulate the methods by which in fact human

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values. And prosperity are achieved,

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then perfection they held. Here on Earth was

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possible to man.

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This is precisely what the founding fathers did

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with respect to the subject of government.

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They painstakingly

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studied the forms and the history of governments.

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In order to define a perfect method of

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governance.

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The result was the constitution of the United

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States

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along with its system of checks and balances,

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which were designed to prevent the emergence of

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any

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absolute power.

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Now to most British subjects, British rule was

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good, which comparatively speaking to the rest of

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the world it was,

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and it was good enough.

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But to the founding father's good was not

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good enough.

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As ideal, they sought perfection.

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And when they saw the possibility for action,

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therefore they rebelled when few other men would

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have done so.

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Now to burn with this type of ideal,

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requires a profound self esteem.

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It requires a spirit that wants to see

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perfection made real

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for itself and in its own life.

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Genuine self esteem,

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not that we're all okay variety,

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isn't earned esteem of one's own soul

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It is the conviction that you are deserving

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of success and happiness

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because you are continually working to achieve these.

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If you wonder about the imposing stature of

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the founding fathers of men like Washington and

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Jefferson.

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This is the key. They were men of

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genuine self esteem. Men who took the perfection

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of their own lives

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mind,

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character and happiness with the utmost seriousness.

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They were abstract thinkers and doors,

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men of wide and constantly expanding air addition,

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who are also lawyers, farmers,

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printers, business owners,

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architects, and inventors.

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Now this kind of individual will jealous guard

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his freedom

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is freedom to follow his own judgment

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to make his own choices and to enjoy

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the values

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and wealth he creates.

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To such an individual, the issue of his

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own perfect

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is a daily reality.

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Which he will allow no 1 to use

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to such an individual, the idea that he

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is sinful,

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are rational or a miserable creature,

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desperately in need of a superior to tell

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him what to do has no reality.

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This kind of individual will allow no king

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or a government to dictate his convictions

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or dispose of his fortune and life.

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Not for any reason or to any degree.

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For the founding fathers, the motto live free

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or die had real meaning

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Without freedom, they would be dead. Their mode

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of existence would be dead, their un

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un bound pursuit of their own perfection would

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be dead.

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And so they thought.

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The declaration of independence was a

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declaration of self esteem.

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It was a

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declaration of self esteem.

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But the founding father's achievement is eroding.

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They would be shocked by the power that

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is now concentrated

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in the hands of the American government at

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the expense, of the individual.

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Can you imagine Jefferson

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submitting to building inspectors

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who would decide if Monte monticello is up

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to code.

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Or pleading with Fda officials to take an

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experimental drug

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that according to his scientific judgment is beneficial

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or allowing social security administrators to dictate how

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much he has to save for his retirement

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and where he has to invest it.

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Or patiently patiently watching the tax collector as

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he takes his money away and pours it

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down the aid drains of Africa.

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Can you imagine him pros

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himself before the Fcc

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who would determine if it's broadcast content is

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obscene.

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Can you imagine Thomas Jefferson seeking the government's

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permission to smoke a cigarette in a restaurant,

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eat a irr spinach,

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screw in and and in incandescent light bulb,

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or buy a trans fatty French fry.

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And yet, today,

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Americans do not have the self esteem to

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protest these user patients of their judgment, their

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choice, their freedom.

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America's

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declaration of self esteem has not taken full

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root.

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Why not?

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Now although the core of self esteem is

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an earned confidence in one's power to think

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and to produce,

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which Americans have earned in abundance

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Full self esteem

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requires that 1 self consciously,

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value 1 self.

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Full self esteem requires that 1 know x

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explicit

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moral terms that 1 is good and why.

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This positive moral

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evaluation. It's and self evaluation. The

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declaration of independence does not fully provide and

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the founding fathers cannot not provide

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The European enlightenment had promised to put morality

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on a rational,

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scientifically

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and mathematically precise

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foundation,

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but it could never deliver on its promise.

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And far too many of its intellectual leaders

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assumed that the content of morality

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would be essentially Christian morality,

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stripped of its mystical trapping,

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and somehow

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defended by rational argument.

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The founding fathers agreed with the European

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intellectual.

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Jefferson for instance made his own

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compilation of Jesus

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teachings.

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Jefferson

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compilation, which omit the miraculous from the new

564
00:23:22,087 --> 00:23:22,587
testament

565
00:23:23,203 --> 00:23:24,639
includes the sermon on the mount.

566
00:23:25,995 --> 00:23:28,468
Indeed, Jefferson in a letter refers to Jesus

567
00:23:28,468 --> 00:23:32,056
as, quote, the sublime preacher of the sermon

568
00:23:32,056 --> 00:23:33,721
on the mount, close quote.

569
00:23:35,624 --> 00:23:36,813
Now ask yourself this,

570
00:23:37,623 --> 00:23:39,854
Does the sermon on the mount not ind

571
00:23:39,854 --> 00:23:40,752
incite Jefferson

572
00:23:41,129 --> 00:23:43,201
and the other founding fathers as evil?

573
00:23:45,924 --> 00:23:48,792
When the British struck America's right cheek,

574
00:23:49,430 --> 00:23:52,218
did Jefferson in the declaration Tele america to

575
00:23:52,218 --> 00:23:53,572
turn to offer them the left.

576
00:23:55,022 --> 00:23:57,653
Did Jefferson love his enemies or did he

577
00:23:57,653 --> 00:23:58,611
go to war with them?

578
00:24:00,285 --> 00:24:02,757
Did Jefferson, who had a gallery of war

579
00:24:02,757 --> 00:24:05,402
in his home? Portraits of men like isaac

580
00:24:05,561 --> 00:24:07,097
Newton and John Lock

581
00:24:07,633 --> 00:24:09,784
think that the blessed or the poor in

582
00:24:09,784 --> 00:24:10,102
spirit.

583
00:24:10,914 --> 00:24:14,277
Or that the only people worthy of admiration

584
00:24:14,333 --> 00:24:16,480
or those who choose to make something of

585
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:17,037
their spirit.

586
00:24:17,912 --> 00:24:20,536
Did Jefferson and and the other founding fathers?

587
00:24:21,109 --> 00:24:23,104
Think that the meek shall inherit the yours

588
00:24:23,104 --> 00:24:25,738
earth or that the rational and the industrial

589
00:24:25,738 --> 00:24:26,137
is shell.

590
00:24:27,015 --> 00:24:28,691
Did Jefferson give up riches?

591
00:24:29,344 --> 00:24:30,301
Or did he seek them?

592
00:24:31,656 --> 00:24:33,012
On every essential,

593
00:24:33,490 --> 00:24:36,121
the founding fathers did the opposite of what

594
00:24:36,121 --> 00:24:37,238
the Sermon commands?

595
00:24:38,686 --> 00:24:40,277
And that's what because the sermon on the

596
00:24:40,277 --> 00:24:41,254
mount is a

597
00:24:41,629 --> 00:24:44,037
declaration of war on self esteem

598
00:24:44,412 --> 00:24:47,593
is a declaration of war on self esteem.

599
00:24:48,963 --> 00:24:51,061
Anyone who has achieved anything

600
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,858
and taken pride and joy his accomplishments

601
00:24:54,477 --> 00:24:56,075
is condemned by Jesus.

602
00:24:57,210 --> 00:24:58,910
Woe unto to you that are rich

603
00:24:59,289 --> 00:25:00,990
for you have received your

604
00:25:01,289 --> 00:25:01,450
consolation.

605
00:25:02,329 --> 00:25:04,982
Woe to you that are full. For y

606
00:25:04,982 --> 00:25:05,619
shall hunger.

607
00:25:06,496 --> 00:25:08,888
Won't to you that laugh now for y

608
00:25:08,888 --> 00:25:10,322
shall mourn and weep.

609
00:25:12,809 --> 00:25:14,730
Well, who then has a right to feel

610
00:25:14,730 --> 00:25:15,869
good about themselves

611
00:25:16,170 --> 00:25:17,130
according to the sermon,

612
00:25:18,650 --> 00:25:20,730
the meek and the poor and spirit,

613
00:25:21,450 --> 00:25:22,269
which means

614
00:25:22,663 --> 00:25:25,535
those who have little cause to esteem themselves.

615
00:25:28,645 --> 00:25:30,661
So you can look at America's history

616
00:25:31,278 --> 00:25:31,756
this way.

617
00:25:32,569 --> 00:25:35,280
The founding fathers created a new form of

618
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:38,152
government, and thereby opened up a comp a

619
00:25:38,152 --> 00:25:40,305
continent to their kind of men.

620
00:25:41,103 --> 00:25:42,275
Men of self esteem

621
00:25:43,347 --> 00:25:45,673
individuals who were ready to drop their backward

622
00:25:45,809 --> 00:25:48,112
cultures and work for a better future.

623
00:25:49,383 --> 00:25:51,606
Individuals who value themselves so highly.

624
00:25:52,098 --> 00:25:55,034
That they sought the best for themselves and

625
00:25:55,034 --> 00:25:57,256
in themselves by coming to America.

626
00:25:58,446 --> 00:26:01,243
But the founding fathers left these people unable

627
00:26:01,243 --> 00:26:04,596
fully to understand or appreciate their own greatness,

628
00:26:05,234 --> 00:26:08,209
open to every form of abuse and vulnerable

629
00:26:08,268 --> 00:26:10,834
to every sort of moral den pronunciation,

630
00:26:12,028 --> 00:26:12,846
and the den

631
00:26:13,380 --> 00:26:14,096
soon came.

632
00:26:15,607 --> 00:26:18,482
The new country had explode into an org

633
00:26:18,482 --> 00:26:19,354
of productive.

634
00:26:20,068 --> 00:26:22,076
Most responsible for this prosperity

635
00:26:22,528 --> 00:26:24,273
were men who had never had a chance

636
00:26:24,273 --> 00:26:26,455
to exist before, to capitalist,

637
00:26:26,829 --> 00:26:27,703
and industrial list,

638
00:26:28,815 --> 00:26:29,133
oil,

639
00:26:29,927 --> 00:26:30,245
steel,

640
00:26:30,881 --> 00:26:32,310
new financial instruments,

641
00:26:32,946 --> 00:26:33,446
railroads,

642
00:26:34,234 --> 00:26:36,812
these and other innovations, the rockefeller,

643
00:26:37,271 --> 00:26:40,547
the Carnegie, the Jp Morgan's and the Van

644
00:26:40,547 --> 00:26:41,047
builds

645
00:26:41,506 --> 00:26:43,839
brought into the new world, and taught men

646
00:26:43,839 --> 00:26:44,559
how to value.

647
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:47,919
For this, they weren't denounced as robert barons.

648
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,159
In essence, it was Jesus voice rising against

649
00:26:52,159 --> 00:26:52,375
them

650
00:26:53,292 --> 00:26:55,365
woe to you that are rich for Yi

651
00:26:55,365 --> 00:26:56,003
shall suffer,

652
00:26:56,562 --> 00:26:59,114
woe to you that build railroads and oil

653
00:26:59,114 --> 00:27:01,906
derrick, for yi shall mourn mourn and weep.

654
00:27:04,388 --> 00:27:06,001
And more than just moral

655
00:27:06,456 --> 00:27:06,933
pronunciations came.

656
00:27:07,649 --> 00:27:10,035
If America was to be the land of

657
00:27:10,035 --> 00:27:12,832
the ideal. As the founding fathers had promised.

658
00:27:13,468 --> 00:27:15,772
And if the ideal is in fact that

659
00:27:15,772 --> 00:27:18,369
the meek and the poor and spirit Shall

660
00:27:18,489 --> 00:27:21,431
inherit at the earth, that America's government needed

661
00:27:21,431 --> 00:27:21,931
drastic

662
00:27:22,465 --> 00:27:22,624
overhaul.

663
00:27:23,976 --> 00:27:25,487
All the new government powers,

664
00:27:26,043 --> 00:27:27,895
the alphabet soup of regulatory

665
00:27:28,761 --> 00:27:32,176
agencies that Jefferson would have rebelled against were

666
00:27:32,176 --> 00:27:34,900
justified by attacking the men of self esteem

667
00:27:35,353 --> 00:27:37,259
in the name of the meek and the

668
00:27:37,259 --> 00:27:37,577
re.

669
00:27:39,735 --> 00:27:41,426
For instance, what is the moral

670
00:27:42,037 --> 00:27:44,021
justification for the Fda's existence?

671
00:27:45,132 --> 00:27:45,370
Rich?

672
00:27:45,943 --> 00:27:46,980
Greedy drug companies.

673
00:27:47,459 --> 00:27:50,490
I. E. Those who discover and manufacture life

674
00:27:50,490 --> 00:27:51,388
saving compounds

675
00:27:52,005 --> 00:27:54,956
will exploit an experiment on hap less patients.

676
00:27:55,608 --> 00:27:58,544
So the government must oversee the companies every

677
00:27:58,544 --> 00:27:58,782
move?

678
00:28:00,210 --> 00:28:02,456
Besides how can the meek be served

679
00:28:02,908 --> 00:28:05,388
unless the government, so through its process of

680
00:28:05,388 --> 00:28:06,584
approvals and rejections,

681
00:28:07,301 --> 00:28:09,532
favors the kind of drugs the meek need?

682
00:28:10,488 --> 00:28:13,458
And how can the poor spirit achieve blessed.

683
00:28:14,250 --> 00:28:15,390
If in their mindless,

684
00:28:15,769 --> 00:28:17,850
they pop some pill that they should have

685
00:28:17,850 --> 00:28:20,090
known 1 might kill them. So to protect

686
00:28:20,090 --> 00:28:22,430
the bless it from their own rationality.

687
00:28:22,824 --> 00:28:26,094
We need wise government officials to tell everyone

688
00:28:26,094 --> 00:28:28,487
what pills they may and may not swallow.

689
00:28:29,683 --> 00:28:30,901
Or what is the moral

690
00:28:31,358 --> 00:28:33,526
justification for the creation of social security.

691
00:28:34,482 --> 00:28:37,032
To quote from the administration's website in an

692
00:28:37,032 --> 00:28:37,532
article

693
00:28:37,908 --> 00:28:40,219
about the history of social security, it is,

694
00:28:40,458 --> 00:28:43,575
quote, the government's duty to to provide for

695
00:28:43,575 --> 00:28:45,026
the welfare of the poor

696
00:28:45,477 --> 00:28:48,173
close quote. If a person is too meek

697
00:28:48,173 --> 00:28:50,021
to provide for his old age

698
00:28:50,409 --> 00:28:52,240
then those who are richer should be forced

699
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:53,673
to provide for his retirement.

700
00:28:54,469 --> 00:28:56,960
If a person is too ignorant or irresponsible

701
00:28:57,017 --> 00:28:59,104
to save for his own retirement, if he

702
00:28:59,104 --> 00:29:00,462
is that poor and spirit,

703
00:29:01,022 --> 00:29:03,100
then the government must step in, and in

704
00:29:03,100 --> 00:29:06,296
his name, strip everyone of control over their

705
00:29:06,296 --> 00:29:07,015
retirement plans.

706
00:29:08,464 --> 00:29:09,758
Or what was the moral

707
00:29:10,212 --> 00:29:13,096
justification for the income tax ratified in 19

708
00:29:13,390 --> 00:29:13,708
13,

709
00:29:14,979 --> 00:29:15,694
soak the rich.

710
00:29:18,502 --> 00:29:21,378
Now to all of this, to whatever form,

711
00:29:21,617 --> 00:29:24,586
the sacrifice of men of self esteem. To

712
00:29:24,586 --> 00:29:26,336
men without self esteem takes.

713
00:29:27,290 --> 00:29:29,222
I'm rand and Atlas shrug says

714
00:29:29,677 --> 00:29:30,154
no more.

715
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,415
In 1 of the world's great acts of

716
00:29:34,474 --> 00:29:34,793
independence,

717
00:29:35,670 --> 00:29:37,686
Iran declares in effect

718
00:29:38,063 --> 00:29:39,977
that the essence of the sermon on the

719
00:29:39,977 --> 00:29:40,217
mount,

720
00:29:41,190 --> 00:29:42,730
along with everything it pre

721
00:29:43,109 --> 00:29:45,289
and everything it implies

722
00:29:45,750 --> 00:29:46,309
is evil.

723
00:29:48,150 --> 00:29:49,724
The idea that the good

724
00:29:50,084 --> 00:29:52,801
consistent achieving the good of others of your

725
00:29:52,801 --> 00:29:55,598
neighbors of your country, even of your enemies,

726
00:29:55,997 --> 00:29:59,128
of anyone or anything, real or imagine that

727
00:29:59,128 --> 00:30:01,440
is not you. The idea that you must

728
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,708
sacrifice your personal values with even without even

729
00:30:04,708 --> 00:30:05,208
the

730
00:30:05,585 --> 00:30:06,622
expectation of return,

731
00:30:07,354 --> 00:30:10,251
The idea that nobility means being selfless

732
00:30:10,710 --> 00:30:13,507
and wicked means being concerned with self.

733
00:30:14,226 --> 00:30:17,292
The idea that morality is synonymous with alt

734
00:30:17,825 --> 00:30:20,288
and immoral morality synonymous with ego ism.

735
00:30:21,083 --> 00:30:23,387
All of this is challenged in Atlas run.

736
00:30:24,991 --> 00:30:27,691
On this of this whole approach to good

737
00:30:27,691 --> 00:30:28,168
and evil.

738
00:30:29,041 --> 00:30:31,980
Rand asked questions no 1 dared to ask.

739
00:30:35,346 --> 00:30:36,384
What she asked?

740
00:30:37,103 --> 00:30:38,083
Is the good

741
00:30:38,461 --> 00:30:39,740
according to this morality?

742
00:30:41,434 --> 00:30:43,835
Now supposedly is that you achieve the good

743
00:30:43,835 --> 00:30:44,315
of others.

744
00:30:45,674 --> 00:30:47,275
But what then is there good.

745
00:30:49,283 --> 00:30:51,508
Well presumably that they achieved the good of

746
00:30:51,508 --> 00:30:52,223
still other people.

747
00:30:53,415 --> 00:30:55,743
But then we're again faced with the same

748
00:30:56,292 --> 00:30:56,929
unanswered question,

749
00:30:57,646 --> 00:30:59,160
what is the good of these other people?

750
00:31:00,912 --> 00:31:02,824
To the question, what is the good?

751
00:31:03,461 --> 00:31:06,849
This approach to around the actually offers no

752
00:31:07,069 --> 00:31:07,230
answer.

753
00:31:08,429 --> 00:31:10,589
It gives you only a chain of arrows,

754
00:31:11,230 --> 00:31:12,190
leading to nowhere,

755
00:31:12,669 --> 00:31:13,789
a string of zeros.

756
00:31:14,362 --> 00:31:15,317
Adding up to nothing.

757
00:31:16,590 --> 00:31:19,294
The code uphold no ultimate value,

758
00:31:19,931 --> 00:31:20,908
no positive

759
00:31:21,378 --> 00:31:21,618
ideal.

760
00:31:22,415 --> 00:31:24,808
It is un concerned with the main task

761
00:31:24,808 --> 00:31:25,366
of ethics,

762
00:31:25,925 --> 00:31:28,397
namely of defining the good that men must

763
00:31:28,397 --> 00:31:28,956
live up to.

764
00:31:32,635 --> 00:31:34,885
Now what does this do to men in

765
00:31:34,942 --> 00:31:35,658
actual practice?

766
00:31:36,851 --> 00:31:39,513
It means that it's in possible to know

767
00:31:39,887 --> 00:31:42,214
whether 1 has ever achieved the good

768
00:31:42,589 --> 00:31:44,019
or failed in the attempt.

769
00:31:45,942 --> 00:31:47,375
Now what is this do to a man

770
00:31:47,375 --> 00:31:48,171
of self esteem?

771
00:31:50,877 --> 00:31:53,026
To anyone striving to be good?

772
00:31:53,598 --> 00:31:56,298
This code declares that you have never done

773
00:31:56,298 --> 00:31:56,457
enough.

774
00:31:57,171 --> 00:31:59,021
No matter how much you've sacrificed.

775
00:32:00,189 --> 00:32:02,436
You can never achieve your own moral.

776
00:32:03,305 --> 00:32:05,065
You can never reach the good.

777
00:32:06,664 --> 00:32:08,825
Have you ever wonder why the demands for

778
00:32:08,825 --> 00:32:11,545
sacrifice can continue to grow and grow.

779
00:32:12,436 --> 00:32:15,384
The income tax, for instance started off as

780
00:32:15,384 --> 00:32:18,014
something that would only of, of course apply

781
00:32:18,014 --> 00:32:18,811
to the very rich.

782
00:32:19,462 --> 00:32:21,447
And which of course would be capped at

783
00:32:21,447 --> 00:32:22,875
7 percent of income.

784
00:32:23,749 --> 00:32:26,368
But then it grew to 15 percent, 20

785
00:32:26,368 --> 00:32:30,032
percent, 25 percent, of all income and included

786
00:32:30,032 --> 00:32:32,808
in its clutches more and more productive citizens.

787
00:32:34,077 --> 00:32:35,925
Now can we at any stage

788
00:32:36,234 --> 00:32:39,743
protest that we've sacrificed enough that we've already

789
00:32:39,743 --> 00:32:40,780
achieved the good of others.

790
00:32:42,455 --> 00:32:43,492
Don't be so naive.

791
00:32:43,971 --> 00:32:45,406
Who said the good is achievable.

792
00:32:47,172 --> 00:32:50,193
Or why is it decade after decade as

793
00:32:50,193 --> 00:32:53,214
the Us pours money into Asia, Africa and

794
00:32:53,214 --> 00:32:53,850
the Middle East?

795
00:32:54,664 --> 00:32:56,741
Still more hand outs are demanded from us.

796
00:32:57,620 --> 00:33:00,597
Can we ever protest that we've sacrificed enough

797
00:33:00,737 --> 00:33:02,335
that we've achieved the good of others?

798
00:33:03,861 --> 00:33:04,815
Don't be so naive.

799
00:33:05,372 --> 00:33:06,961
Why do you think the good is achievable.

800
00:33:09,028 --> 00:33:12,859
Therefore the result, to any rational person striving

801
00:33:12,859 --> 00:33:15,505
to be good is a state of moral

802
00:33:15,642 --> 00:33:16,039
anxiety,

803
00:33:16,755 --> 00:33:18,265
self doubt and guilt,

804
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:21,580
No matter how much he has sacrificed.

805
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,359
The thought haunt him that he could have

806
00:33:24,359 --> 00:33:25,559
sacrificed still more.

807
00:33:26,772 --> 00:33:29,402
Most good people therefore stop trying to be

808
00:33:29,402 --> 00:33:30,677
a hundred percent moral,

809
00:33:31,633 --> 00:33:34,517
and they thereby abandon the quest, for self

810
00:33:34,517 --> 00:33:34,756
esteem.

811
00:33:38,899 --> 00:33:41,130
Now what are the sc rules who are

812
00:33:41,130 --> 00:33:43,122
actually un concerned with being more?

813
00:33:45,529 --> 00:33:48,400
No matter the nature of their concrete actions

814
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,590
or how dreadful the outcome so far. So

815
00:33:51,590 --> 00:33:54,074
long as their motive is not self interest.

816
00:33:54,788 --> 00:33:56,135
Anything is permitted to them.

817
00:33:57,087 --> 00:34:00,337
Whatever they do, they retain the halo of

818
00:34:00,337 --> 00:34:01,184
morality, self

819
00:34:02,501 --> 00:34:04,736
Have you ever wondered why when the so

820
00:34:04,736 --> 00:34:06,911
called humanitarian at the Un

821
00:34:07,289 --> 00:34:09,045
produced debacle after debacle?

822
00:34:09,779 --> 00:34:13,695
And corruption after corruption, their power and prestige

823
00:34:13,695 --> 00:34:14,494
only increase.

824
00:34:15,532 --> 00:34:18,065
Have you ever wondered why when government program

825
00:34:18,184 --> 00:34:20,605
after government program leads to disaster

826
00:34:20,984 --> 00:34:22,284
when social security

827
00:34:22,585 --> 00:34:25,085
undermine a person's retirement and public

828
00:34:25,385 --> 00:34:26,984
education undermine a child's mind.

829
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,352
The power of these programs only increases.

830
00:34:31,390 --> 00:34:34,183
Have you ever wondered why as individuals were

831
00:34:34,183 --> 00:34:35,481
murdered in the thousands

832
00:34:35,871 --> 00:34:38,645
and tens of thousands in communist, Russia and

833
00:34:38,883 --> 00:34:42,449
China. On on in the east and West

834
00:34:42,449 --> 00:34:42,687
alike,

835
00:34:43,259 --> 00:34:43,498
said,

836
00:34:44,137 --> 00:34:46,931
give them more time. They may eventually achieve

837
00:34:46,931 --> 00:34:47,649
the good of others.

838
00:34:49,644 --> 00:34:51,161
Atlas shrugged gives us the answer.

839
00:34:52,293 --> 00:34:55,165
Nothing can count its failure to achieve the

840
00:34:55,165 --> 00:34:55,905
good of others

841
00:34:56,362 --> 00:34:58,037
because nothing counts as success.

842
00:35:00,688 --> 00:35:01,726
To quote from Atlas.

843
00:35:03,085 --> 00:35:03,404
Quote,

844
00:35:04,443 --> 00:35:07,260
the good of others is a magic formula

845
00:35:07,573 --> 00:35:08,391
that transforms

846
00:35:08,766 --> 00:35:09,958
anything into gold,

847
00:35:10,674 --> 00:35:13,162
a formula to be recite as a guarantee

848
00:35:13,378 --> 00:35:14,594
of moral glory

849
00:35:14,968 --> 00:35:17,036
and is a fu for any action.

850
00:35:17,849 --> 00:35:19,606
Even the slaughter of a continent.

851
00:35:20,485 --> 00:35:21,603
You need no proof.

852
00:35:22,322 --> 00:35:24,239
No reasons, no success.

853
00:35:25,049 --> 00:35:27,113
All you need to know is that your

854
00:35:27,113 --> 00:35:29,575
motive was the good of others, not your

855
00:35:29,575 --> 00:35:29,734
own.

856
00:35:30,449 --> 00:35:31,266
Your only

857
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,172
definition of the good is a.

858
00:35:34,519 --> 00:35:36,679
The good is the non good for me.

859
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:37,960
Close quote.

860
00:35:41,173 --> 00:35:43,497
So what we have here is a negative

861
00:35:43,948 --> 00:35:44,344
morality.

862
00:35:44,979 --> 00:35:48,070
This code is unable to specify the nature

863
00:35:48,070 --> 00:35:48,546
of the good.

864
00:35:49,595 --> 00:35:53,495
But it does define in precise detail, the

865
00:35:53,495 --> 00:35:54,132
nature of evil.

866
00:35:54,928 --> 00:35:57,714
To be concerned with advancing your own interest

867
00:35:57,714 --> 00:35:58,192
is evil.

868
00:35:59,081 --> 00:36:01,805
To escape evil, therefore, you must sacrifice

869
00:36:02,179 --> 00:36:02,814
your values.

870
00:36:04,085 --> 00:36:05,436
The concrete advice,

871
00:36:05,992 --> 00:36:08,160
the code offers is sacrifice

872
00:36:08,947 --> 00:36:09,447
sacrifice

873
00:36:09,903 --> 00:36:11,417
and then sacrifice some more.

874
00:36:12,294 --> 00:36:14,206
This is the real focus of the code

875
00:36:14,206 --> 00:36:17,313
and why Rand names it the morality of

876
00:36:17,313 --> 00:36:17,813
sacrifice.

877
00:36:19,244 --> 00:36:21,724
Sacrifice your money to strangers who have not

878
00:36:21,724 --> 00:36:23,724
earned it, pro preclude a sermon on the

879
00:36:23,724 --> 00:36:26,844
mount and sacrifice you love to enemies you

880
00:36:26,844 --> 00:36:27,085
hate.

881
00:36:28,138 --> 00:36:31,251
Sacrifice the values of both matter and spirit,

882
00:36:31,890 --> 00:36:32,390
sacrifice,

883
00:36:33,007 --> 00:36:33,507
sacrifice,

884
00:36:34,045 --> 00:36:34,545
sacrifice.

885
00:36:38,836 --> 00:36:40,684
But does the morality of sacrifice

886
00:36:41,215 --> 00:36:44,466
not contain some enormous hidden double standard.

887
00:36:45,836 --> 00:36:48,467
As I ran asked in Atlas shrugged, and

888
00:36:48,467 --> 00:36:50,380
all further quotes will be from the novel

889
00:36:50,380 --> 00:36:51,656
unless I indicate otherwise.

890
00:36:52,693 --> 00:36:52,932
Quote,

891
00:36:54,064 --> 00:36:56,141
Why is it moral to serve the happiness

892
00:36:56,141 --> 00:36:58,059
of others, but not your own.

893
00:36:59,178 --> 00:37:01,495
Why is it immoral to produce a value

894
00:37:01,495 --> 00:37:03,659
and keep it? But moral to give it

895
00:37:03,659 --> 00:37:03,818
away.

896
00:37:04,772 --> 00:37:06,599
And if it is not moral for you

897
00:37:06,599 --> 00:37:07,474
to keep a value,

898
00:37:08,030 --> 00:37:10,270
why is it moral for others, to accept

899
00:37:10,270 --> 00:37:10,429
it.

900
00:37:11,144 --> 00:37:13,925
If you are selfless and virtuous when you

901
00:37:13,925 --> 00:37:17,000
give it, are they not selfish and vicious

902
00:37:17,119 --> 00:37:19,903
when they take it. Does the virtue consist

903
00:37:19,903 --> 00:37:20,938
of serving vice?

904
00:37:21,813 --> 00:37:23,984
Is the purpose of those who are good

905
00:37:24,532 --> 00:37:26,676
self em inhalation for the sake of those

906
00:37:26,676 --> 00:37:27,152
who are evil?

907
00:37:28,502 --> 00:37:29,057
Close quote.

908
00:37:31,122 --> 00:37:33,051
Now what is the sermon on the mount

909
00:37:33,186 --> 00:37:34,628
answer to these questions.

910
00:37:38,748 --> 00:37:40,094
Well, to quote again from Atlas,

911
00:37:40,824 --> 00:37:41,564
the monstrous

912
00:37:42,023 --> 00:37:44,979
answer is no. The takers are not evil,

913
00:37:45,777 --> 00:37:47,695
provided they did not earn the value you

914
00:37:47,695 --> 00:37:50,178
gave them. It is not immoral for them

915
00:37:50,178 --> 00:37:50,814
to accept it,

916
00:37:51,610 --> 00:37:53,360
provided they are unable to produce it,

917
00:37:54,155 --> 00:37:55,110
unable to deserve it,

918
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,465
unable to give you any value in return.

919
00:38:00,614 --> 00:38:00,852
Quote.

920
00:38:03,172 --> 00:38:06,349
Why, for instance, do drug companies not have

921
00:38:06,349 --> 00:38:09,367
the right to sell their inventions to anyone

922
00:38:09,367 --> 00:38:10,161
eager to buy them?

923
00:38:12,488 --> 00:38:13,844
Because the companies invented them.

924
00:38:14,721 --> 00:38:17,353
Now why do we the public through the

925
00:38:17,592 --> 00:38:17,911
Fda,

926
00:38:18,549 --> 00:38:21,195
have the right to dictate what drugs these

927
00:38:21,195 --> 00:38:23,108
companies can and cannot sell.

928
00:38:23,826 --> 00:38:25,739
How they have to research, test,

929
00:38:26,616 --> 00:38:28,130
manufacture and label the drugs,

930
00:38:28,703 --> 00:38:31,426
what uses the drugs can be prescribed for

931
00:38:31,482 --> 00:38:34,103
and who can purchase them? What gives us

932
00:38:34,103 --> 00:38:35,294
this incredible power?

933
00:38:36,659 --> 00:38:38,249
The fact that we didn't invent the drugs.

934
00:38:40,475 --> 00:38:42,702
Or why does an employee not have the

935
00:38:42,702 --> 00:38:45,021
right to invest all as income as he

936
00:38:45,021 --> 00:38:46,607
judge best for his old age?

937
00:38:47,954 --> 00:38:48,985
Because he earned the money.

938
00:38:50,412 --> 00:38:52,181
Why do we the public

939
00:38:52,569 --> 00:38:54,243
have the right to take part of his

940
00:38:54,243 --> 00:38:56,953
income, pool it into a so called insurance

941
00:38:56,953 --> 00:38:59,844
scheme and dole it out to whoever supposedly

942
00:38:59,902 --> 00:39:00,221
needs it.

943
00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:03,089
Because we didn't earn the money.

944
00:39:04,990 --> 00:39:05,228
Quote,

945
00:39:05,941 --> 00:39:08,653
such as the secret core, of your creed.

946
00:39:09,130 --> 00:39:11,196
The other half of your double standard.

947
00:39:11,753 --> 00:39:13,819
It is immoral to live by your own

948
00:39:13,819 --> 00:39:15,965
effort, but moral to live by the effort

949
00:39:15,965 --> 00:39:16,442
of others,

950
00:39:17,094 --> 00:39:19,492
It is immoral to consume your own product,

951
00:39:19,891 --> 00:39:22,048
but moral to consume the product of others.

952
00:39:22,448 --> 00:39:23,507
It is the parasites

953
00:39:23,886 --> 00:39:26,539
who the moral just... Vacation for the existence

954
00:39:26,539 --> 00:39:27,420
of the producers,

955
00:39:27,980 --> 00:39:29,679
but the existence of the producers

956
00:39:29,980 --> 00:39:31,179
is an end in itself.

957
00:39:32,299 --> 00:39:32,859
Close, quote,

958
00:39:36,533 --> 00:39:39,577
Now if you want just 1 contemporary example

959
00:39:39,871 --> 00:39:42,177
to fix in your mind, the gruesome essence.

960
00:39:42,668 --> 00:39:44,278
Of the morality of sacrifice

961
00:39:44,730 --> 00:39:46,554
and what it does to self esteem,

962
00:39:47,505 --> 00:39:50,384
consider America's response to 09:11

963
00:39:52,041 --> 00:39:53,865
When the twin towers collapsed,

964
00:39:54,420 --> 00:39:56,959
many people in the Middle East danced in

965
00:39:56,959 --> 00:39:57,435
the streets.

966
00:39:58,643 --> 00:40:02,007
But others there, although sympathetic to the revel

967
00:40:02,859 --> 00:40:05,258
sought to hide the revel reit, from view.

968
00:40:06,210 --> 00:40:08,590
They worried that the attacks had gone too

969
00:40:08,590 --> 00:40:11,288
far this time, and an America would refuse

970
00:40:11,288 --> 00:40:12,929
to suffer such an outrage

971
00:40:13,764 --> 00:40:16,171
They worry that our self esteem was not

972
00:40:16,227 --> 00:40:17,022
completely strangled,

973
00:40:17,657 --> 00:40:19,723
and that their gl would revive it,

974
00:40:20,614 --> 00:40:23,248
They worried about our ind nation and our

975
00:40:23,248 --> 00:40:23,567
wrath.

976
00:40:25,722 --> 00:40:27,318
And there were some signs of this on

977
00:40:27,318 --> 00:40:29,648
the part of the American people. There was

978
00:40:29,648 --> 00:40:32,045
some anger and some desire for revenge.

979
00:40:32,844 --> 00:40:34,761
People wanted bush to do something.

980
00:40:36,213 --> 00:40:39,243
Responding to the country's mood, the administration promised

981
00:40:39,243 --> 00:40:41,098
a campaign of shock

982
00:40:41,714 --> 00:40:43,867
and the extraction of infinite justice.

983
00:40:45,718 --> 00:40:49,073
But then there is no doubt bush ash

984
00:40:49,073 --> 00:40:49,313
himself,

985
00:40:50,032 --> 00:40:51,070
what would Jesus do?

986
00:40:52,443 --> 00:40:54,857
Tragically, it was 1 of the few questions

987
00:40:55,075 --> 00:40:56,670
to which Bush knows the answer.

988
00:41:00,419 --> 00:41:02,744
Operation infinite justice was renamed.

989
00:41:03,540 --> 00:41:05,291
Gone was the extraction of justice,

990
00:41:05,847 --> 00:41:08,155
replaced by the goal of bringing democracy to

991
00:41:08,155 --> 00:41:10,952
the Middle East so that its inhabitants can

992
00:41:10,952 --> 00:41:11,985
elect whomever they wish.

993
00:41:12,701 --> 00:41:14,847
Killers emphatic not excluded.

994
00:41:15,801 --> 00:41:18,320
A campaign of shock and us did steal

995
00:41:18,439 --> 00:41:18,917
materialize,

996
00:41:19,475 --> 00:41:21,388
but not in the way originally meant.

997
00:41:23,141 --> 00:41:26,351
Imagine the utter shock of the Islamic warriors

998
00:41:26,585 --> 00:41:27,945
and their numerous supporters.

999
00:41:28,664 --> 00:41:30,744
When they realized that it was not Us

1000
00:41:30,744 --> 00:41:32,344
bombs dropping on their heads,

1001
00:41:32,905 --> 00:41:34,184
but packets of lentils,

1002
00:41:34,824 --> 00:41:35,625
barley stew,

1003
00:41:36,199 --> 00:41:36,677
biscuits,

1004
00:41:37,315 --> 00:41:39,390
peanut butter, and strawberry jam,

1005
00:41:40,188 --> 00:41:41,065
along with the message.

1006
00:41:41,863 --> 00:41:44,029
This is a food gift from the people

1007
00:41:44,029 --> 00:41:45,938
of the United States of America.

1008
00:41:48,006 --> 00:41:50,233
Imagine the awe they must have felt at

1009
00:41:50,233 --> 00:41:51,528
their own power

1010
00:41:51,999 --> 00:41:54,713
they had attacked the Pentagon and toppled the

1011
00:41:54,713 --> 00:41:55,351
twin towers,

1012
00:41:55,829 --> 00:41:58,085
and this had brought them not Us soldiers

1013
00:41:58,144 --> 00:41:59,820
bent on their complete destruction.

1014
00:42:00,393 --> 00:42:03,360
But Us soldiers bent on rebuilding their hospitals

1015
00:42:03,418 --> 00:42:05,567
in moss and bringing them the vote.

1016
00:42:06,283 --> 00:42:09,069
The young soldiers all the while dying in

1017
00:42:09,069 --> 00:42:09,706
the process.

1018
00:42:11,469 --> 00:42:13,694
We are proving to these people that the

1019
00:42:13,694 --> 00:42:16,578
meek shall inherit the earth and that blessed

1020
00:42:16,793 --> 00:42:18,804
indeed or the poor in spirit.

1021
00:42:20,324 --> 00:42:23,045
The power these killers feel is real.

1022
00:42:23,525 --> 00:42:26,005
It is granted to them by the morality

1023
00:42:26,005 --> 00:42:26,724
of sacrifice,

1024
00:42:30,792 --> 00:42:33,175
Now, the sermon on the mount and all

1025
00:42:33,175 --> 00:42:34,922
its variations through the centuries.

1026
00:42:35,574 --> 00:42:38,951
Atlas shrugged reveals is a morality of evil

1027
00:42:39,170 --> 00:42:40,368
and 4 evil.

1028
00:42:41,487 --> 00:42:43,085
But it has a fatal flaw.

1029
00:42:43,819 --> 00:42:46,317
It requires that it that its victims

1030
00:42:46,856 --> 00:42:47,175
accepted.

1031
00:42:48,534 --> 00:42:48,774
Quote,

1032
00:42:49,733 --> 00:42:52,391
I saw that the enemy was an inverted

1033
00:42:52,610 --> 00:42:53,010
morality.

1034
00:42:53,664 --> 00:42:55,819
And that my sanction was its only power.

1035
00:42:56,457 --> 00:42:58,134
I saw that there comes a point in

1036
00:42:58,134 --> 00:43:00,448
the defeat of any man of virtue. When

1037
00:43:00,448 --> 00:43:02,940
his own consent is needed for evil to

1038
00:43:02,940 --> 00:43:03,179
win.

1039
00:43:03,980 --> 00:43:05,760
I saw that I could put an end

1040
00:43:05,819 --> 00:43:08,460
to your outrageous by pronouncing a single word

1041
00:43:08,460 --> 00:43:09,099
in my mind.

1042
00:43:09,900 --> 00:43:10,619
I pronounced it.

1043
00:43:11,271 --> 00:43:12,407
That word was

1044
00:43:12,780 --> 00:43:13,019
no.

1045
00:43:15,164 --> 00:43:17,707
This is the beginning of In iran's declaration

1046
00:43:17,707 --> 00:43:19,057
of moral independence.

1047
00:43:21,389 --> 00:43:24,429
To win one's moral independence, 1 must first

1048
00:43:24,429 --> 00:43:27,489
say no to the corrupt ideal of sacrifice.

1049
00:43:28,284 --> 00:43:30,844
1 must reject as un unspeakable evil,

1050
00:43:31,405 --> 00:43:33,744
any morality that demand sacrifices,

1051
00:43:34,284 --> 00:43:36,857
whether the sacrifice of your values to the

1052
00:43:36,857 --> 00:43:39,643
mis fortune or a rationality of others or

1053
00:43:39,643 --> 00:43:42,349
the sacrifice of their values to your mis

1054
00:43:42,349 --> 00:43:43,861
fortune or a rationality.

1055
00:43:44,896 --> 00:43:46,112
Whether it be a relative

1056
00:43:46,740 --> 00:43:49,516
demanding an attention he has not earned or

1057
00:43:49,516 --> 00:43:51,762
the latest healthcare scheme from Washington,

1058
00:43:52,451 --> 00:43:54,928
promising to give us something for nothing by

1059
00:43:54,928 --> 00:43:55,645
soaking the rich.

1060
00:43:56,523 --> 00:43:57,559
1 must say no.

1061
00:43:58,356 --> 00:44:01,705
The moment the good requires victims. It cease

1062
00:44:01,705 --> 00:44:02,263
to be good.

1063
00:44:04,035 --> 00:44:06,835
To win one's moral independence 1 must uphold

1064
00:44:06,835 --> 00:44:08,994
the individual's moral right to exist,

1065
00:44:09,795 --> 00:44:10,835
beginning with one's own,

1066
00:44:11,474 --> 00:44:13,724
you have the right to exist a moral

1067
00:44:13,724 --> 00:44:15,790
right to your own life and to trying

1068
00:44:15,790 --> 00:44:16,926
to achieve happiness

1069
00:44:17,379 --> 00:44:18,889
within its days and years.

1070
00:44:20,001 --> 00:44:22,082
No 1 has a moral right to man

1071
00:44:22,082 --> 00:44:25,575
that you gain his permission to exist by

1072
00:44:25,575 --> 00:44:28,830
sla administering to his needs and protecting him

1073
00:44:28,830 --> 00:44:30,045
from his own shortcomings.

1074
00:44:31,308 --> 00:44:33,140
No 1 has a claim on your life.

1075
00:44:33,778 --> 00:44:37,385
The moment someone waves his pain or need

1076
00:44:37,443 --> 00:44:38,638
or failures around,

1077
00:44:39,355 --> 00:44:41,837
proclaiming that it is these that ent him

1078
00:44:41,837 --> 00:44:42,631
to your values,

1079
00:44:43,188 --> 00:44:45,435
he removes himself from any moral

1080
00:44:45,889 --> 00:44:46,047
consideration.

1081
00:44:48,923 --> 00:44:50,695
The founding fathers grasped

1082
00:44:51,149 --> 00:44:51,649
politically

1083
00:44:52,182 --> 00:44:54,090
that no 1 gains a right to your

1084
00:44:54,090 --> 00:44:57,293
life, by virtue of his real or alleged

1085
00:44:57,764 --> 00:44:58,264
superiority.

1086
00:44:59,202 --> 00:45:02,239
Neither priest nor king nor a ari democrat

1087
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:04,796
nor the majority gains a right to your

1088
00:45:04,796 --> 00:45:06,985
life by of superior social

1089
00:45:07,916 --> 00:45:09,585
position, mystic visions,

1090
00:45:10,379 --> 00:45:10,856
ancestors,

1091
00:45:11,253 --> 00:45:12,525
wealth or numbers.

1092
00:45:13,893 --> 00:45:16,307
What must now be grasped morally

1093
00:45:16,684 --> 00:45:18,758
is that no 1 gains a claim to

1094
00:45:18,758 --> 00:45:21,390
your life by virtue of his real or

1095
00:45:21,390 --> 00:45:21,890
alleged

1096
00:45:22,267 --> 00:45:22,767
inferior.

1097
00:45:23,798 --> 00:45:25,792
No 1 gains a moral claim to your

1098
00:45:25,792 --> 00:45:28,983
life by virtue of his inferior wealth,

1099
00:45:29,700 --> 00:45:30,019
power,

1100
00:45:30,578 --> 00:45:31,056
happiness,

1101
00:45:31,614 --> 00:45:32,093
intelligence,

1102
00:45:32,492 --> 00:45:32,891
ability,

1103
00:45:33,543 --> 00:45:35,054
knowledge or judgment.

1104
00:45:36,565 --> 00:45:38,736
What this means is that your moral stature

1105
00:45:38,952 --> 00:45:39,986
not at the mercy,

1106
00:45:40,639 --> 00:45:43,431
of someone who has failed or perhaps could

1107
00:45:43,431 --> 00:45:44,569
not even be bothered

1108
00:45:44,947 --> 00:45:47,601
to provide for his own health or retirement

1109
00:45:48,949 --> 00:45:49,905
So politically,

1110
00:45:50,463 --> 00:45:50,963
the

1111
00:45:51,339 --> 00:45:54,047
declaration of independence taught us to reject the

1112
00:45:54,047 --> 00:45:55,583
notion of un

1113
00:45:56,197 --> 00:45:56,675
served.

1114
00:45:58,046 --> 00:45:58,525
Morally,

1115
00:45:58,924 --> 00:45:59,424
Atlas

1116
00:45:59,882 --> 00:46:02,914
teaches us to reject the notion of unearned

1117
00:46:02,914 --> 00:46:03,153
guilt.

1118
00:46:09,058 --> 00:46:10,807
Now in place of unearned guilt,

1119
00:46:11,682 --> 00:46:14,887
1 should embrace the nature of one's existence

1120
00:46:14,887 --> 00:46:16,805
as an individual human being,

1121
00:46:17,525 --> 00:46:20,182
a being that must seek and create values

1122
00:46:20,321 --> 00:46:21,860
in order to remain vibrant

1123
00:46:22,492 --> 00:46:22,731
alive.

1124
00:46:23,685 --> 00:46:26,172
This is the pre condition of self esteem

1125
00:46:26,388 --> 00:46:29,092
to seek in all things the best for

1126
00:46:29,092 --> 00:46:29,568
1 oneself,

1127
00:46:30,776 --> 00:46:33,719
to embrace life is to recognize that the

1128
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:35,173
whole act of valuing

1129
00:46:35,786 --> 00:46:38,592
arises in the context of one's own life

1130
00:46:38,744 --> 00:46:40,179
and the need to make it go well.

1131
00:46:41,215 --> 00:46:43,288
From a child choosing a toy to a

1132
00:46:43,288 --> 00:46:45,998
teenager choosing a friend to an adult choosing

1133
00:46:45,998 --> 00:46:46,737
a career

1134
00:46:47,049 --> 00:46:49,204
or a lover or a form of government?

1135
00:46:49,843 --> 00:46:51,999
The need to do so arises from the

1136
00:46:51,999 --> 00:46:52,877
same question.

1137
00:46:53,675 --> 00:46:55,112
What will advance my life?

1138
00:46:57,521 --> 00:46:59,914
The pre condition of self esteem is to

1139
00:46:59,914 --> 00:47:03,423
refuse as the founding fathers refused to settle

1140
00:47:03,423 --> 00:47:05,975
for anything less than the ideal in one's

1141
00:47:05,975 --> 00:47:06,135
life.

1142
00:47:07,500 --> 00:47:10,198
And to this quest for the ideal, morality,

1143
00:47:10,675 --> 00:47:13,532
properly conceived is an indispensable aid.

1144
00:47:14,184 --> 00:47:17,137
Its task is to teach you fully, what

1145
00:47:17,137 --> 00:47:17,797
the value

1146
00:47:18,175 --> 00:47:19,213
and how to value.

1147
00:47:19,931 --> 00:47:21,847
Its task is to teach you how to

1148
00:47:21,847 --> 00:47:23,376
achieve life. And happiness.

1149
00:47:25,126 --> 00:47:27,854
Alice shrugged accordingly offers a new conception

1150
00:47:28,229 --> 00:47:29,684
of the moral ideal

1151
00:47:30,153 --> 00:47:32,539
a new conception of the sacred and the

1152
00:47:32,539 --> 00:47:32,857
exalted,

1153
00:47:33,573 --> 00:47:35,481
far different from that of the sermon on

1154
00:47:35,481 --> 00:47:35,879
the mount.

1155
00:47:36,992 --> 00:47:39,775
Fundamental to Atlas new moral code or the

1156
00:47:39,775 --> 00:47:40,929
action requirements

1157
00:47:41,388 --> 00:47:42,826
of life and happiness.

1158
00:47:43,785 --> 00:47:46,022
Central to its new ideal, therefore,

1159
00:47:46,421 --> 00:47:47,914
are the virtue of thought

1160
00:47:48,674 --> 00:47:49,952
production, and trade,

1161
00:47:50,911 --> 00:47:51,151
thought,

1162
00:47:51,950 --> 00:47:53,229
production, and trade.

1163
00:47:55,387 --> 00:47:58,112
Atlas shrugged is a him to man's mind.

1164
00:47:58,985 --> 00:48:01,232
Every value that man is achieved

1165
00:48:01,684 --> 00:48:04,384
had to first be discovered by some individual

1166
00:48:04,384 --> 00:48:04,884
mind

1167
00:48:05,434 --> 00:48:08,474
from picking fruits to hunting with spears to

1168
00:48:08,474 --> 00:48:10,875
planting crops in order to harvest them only

1169
00:48:10,875 --> 00:48:11,515
months later.

1170
00:48:12,155 --> 00:48:14,489
From the invention of theater, as a source

1171
00:48:14,489 --> 00:48:17,449
of enjoyment and emotional fuel to the discovery

1172
00:48:17,449 --> 00:48:20,489
of perspective in painting, to the creation of

1173
00:48:20,489 --> 00:48:22,674
music and then of more and more complex

1174
00:48:22,729 --> 00:48:26,086
harmon and forms of composition. From the

1175
00:48:26,617 --> 00:48:28,958
identification of the laws of motion to the

1176
00:48:29,094 --> 00:48:30,469
formulation of the laws of logic

1177
00:48:31,003 --> 00:48:33,412
from the discovery of germs and antibiotics

1178
00:48:33,946 --> 00:48:36,173
to the invention of the transistor and the

1179
00:48:36,173 --> 00:48:36,673
computer

1180
00:48:37,302 --> 00:48:38,578
For each of these steps,

1181
00:48:39,215 --> 00:48:40,889
some mind had to figure it out.

1182
00:48:41,925 --> 00:48:43,998
This is the source of human life and

1183
00:48:43,998 --> 00:48:44,476
happiness.

1184
00:48:45,128 --> 00:48:46,798
To worship life, therefore,

1185
00:48:47,196 --> 00:48:49,344
means to worship man's intelligence.

1186
00:48:51,094 --> 00:48:52,924
And if it is one's own life that

1187
00:48:52,924 --> 00:48:55,900
1 seeks then the development of One's intelligence

1188
00:48:56,113 --> 00:48:57,248
becomes the most fundamental

1189
00:48:57,620 --> 00:48:58,358
of goals

1190
00:48:58,889 --> 00:49:01,997
to learn to think to make connections, and

1191
00:49:01,997 --> 00:49:04,224
to see farther than what has so far

1192
00:49:04,224 --> 00:49:06,293
seen to learn to think carefully,

1193
00:49:07,168 --> 00:49:07,668
systematically,

1194
00:49:08,202 --> 00:49:08,655
logic

1195
00:49:09,409 --> 00:49:09,909
objectively,

1196
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:13,063
to learn to see the full implications of

1197
00:49:13,063 --> 00:49:13,777
one's ideas.

1198
00:49:14,413 --> 00:49:16,954
All this becomes the most important of tasks.

1199
00:49:18,557 --> 00:49:20,783
The scope of one's knowledge and the power

1200
00:49:20,783 --> 00:49:23,485
of one's thinking will dictate the success or

1201
00:49:23,485 --> 00:49:25,631
failure of all one's value pursuits.

1202
00:49:26,282 --> 00:49:27,498
From earning a university

1203
00:49:27,953 --> 00:49:31,136
degree to succeeding as a doctor or computer

1204
00:49:31,136 --> 00:49:32,829
programmer or Ceo

1205
00:49:33,457 --> 00:49:37,054
to raising kids who competent, well behaved and

1206
00:49:37,110 --> 00:49:37,348
independent.

1207
00:49:38,777 --> 00:49:41,183
For rand as for the founding fathers

1208
00:49:41,969 --> 00:49:44,273
Abstract thought is not a game in which

1209
00:49:44,273 --> 00:49:47,530
1 cynical marvel at the alleged paradoxes of

1210
00:49:47,530 --> 00:49:48,165
the universe.

1211
00:49:49,198 --> 00:49:49,516
Thought,

1212
00:49:50,310 --> 00:49:52,177
abstract thought. Is purposeful.

1213
00:49:52,792 --> 00:49:54,248
It demands a serious

1214
00:49:54,704 --> 00:49:55,580
dedication to one's life.

1215
00:49:56,696 --> 00:49:59,563
It demands the honesty of a mind seeking

1216
00:49:59,563 --> 00:50:00,462
all the facts

1217
00:50:00,854 --> 00:50:03,248
because of these and only these will dictate

1218
00:50:03,248 --> 00:50:05,085
its conclusions about how to act.

1219
00:50:05,883 --> 00:50:08,677
It depend it demands the independence of a

1220
00:50:08,677 --> 00:50:11,727
mind reaching its own verdict. No matter how

1221
00:50:11,727 --> 00:50:12,926
many people say otherwise.

1222
00:50:13,725 --> 00:50:16,681
It demands the integrity of a mind committed

1223
00:50:16,681 --> 00:50:18,200
to acting on its own.

1224
00:50:18,693 --> 00:50:19,411
Considered judgments.

1225
00:50:20,369 --> 00:50:21,427
Thought is purposeful.

1226
00:50:22,123 --> 00:50:23,160
Thought is selfish.

1227
00:50:23,958 --> 00:50:26,111
Thought is for the sake of production.

1228
00:50:28,758 --> 00:50:30,513
Which brings us to the second production.

1229
00:50:32,188 --> 00:50:35,458
The of production atlas the shrug shows means

1230
00:50:35,458 --> 00:50:38,271
a dedication to making the ideal

1231
00:50:38,663 --> 00:50:38,982
real.

1232
00:50:39,938 --> 00:50:42,350
It means far more than holding a job

1233
00:50:42,806 --> 00:50:45,117
is a dedication to the work of, quote,

1234
00:50:45,848 --> 00:50:48,075
we're making the earth in the image of

1235
00:50:48,075 --> 00:50:48,791
one's values.

1236
00:50:52,369 --> 00:50:56,462
It represents the proper union of the spiritual

1237
00:50:56,518 --> 00:50:57,312
and material.

1238
00:50:58,504 --> 00:51:00,728
What Atlas drug shows is that the souls

1239
00:51:00,728 --> 00:51:03,373
of an artist and of an industrial list

1240
00:51:03,429 --> 00:51:04,382
are 1 in the same.

1241
00:51:05,748 --> 00:51:07,761
The artist has a new vision of beauty

1242
00:51:07,978 --> 00:51:10,526
of what could be, and he strive to

1243
00:51:10,526 --> 00:51:11,982
give it material form

1244
00:51:12,358 --> 00:51:14,682
to e a sculpture of a woman to

1245
00:51:14,682 --> 00:51:15,980
paint a beautiful landscape

1246
00:51:16,436 --> 00:51:18,132
or to write ser d.

1247
00:51:19,306 --> 00:51:21,538
The industrial list has a new vision of

1248
00:51:21,538 --> 00:51:22,038
prosperity

1249
00:51:22,828 --> 00:51:24,025
of what could be,

1250
00:51:24,662 --> 00:51:27,613
whether it be railroads, chris cri crossing the

1251
00:51:27,613 --> 00:51:28,091
continent,

1252
00:51:29,208 --> 00:51:29,947
a metal

1253
00:51:30,404 --> 00:51:31,542
superior to steel

1254
00:51:32,014 --> 00:51:33,532
or a computer on every desk,

1255
00:51:34,251 --> 00:51:37,047
and he works endlessly to bring his vision

1256
00:51:37,047 --> 00:51:37,766
into existence.

1257
00:51:38,978 --> 00:51:41,525
All production is born of a dedication to

1258
00:51:41,525 --> 00:51:42,719
one's life and reality.

1259
00:51:43,434 --> 00:51:45,822
It is the earthly form of ideal.

1260
00:51:46,875 --> 00:51:49,034
And without it, there is no self esteem.

1261
00:51:51,994 --> 00:51:54,635
Now the producer in his dealings with other

1262
00:51:54,635 --> 00:51:55,090
men

1263
00:51:55,607 --> 00:51:57,141
demands and non sac

1264
00:51:57,676 --> 00:51:58,632
mode of existence.

1265
00:51:59,268 --> 00:52:01,974
In issues of both matter and spirit. In

1266
00:52:01,974 --> 00:52:04,544
money and in love, he is a traitor

1267
00:52:05,570 --> 00:52:05,809
Quote,

1268
00:52:06,444 --> 00:52:08,670
a traitor does not ask to be paid

1269
00:52:08,670 --> 00:52:09,465
for his failures.

1270
00:52:10,021 --> 00:52:11,610
Nor does he ask to be loved for

1271
00:52:11,610 --> 00:52:12,167
his flaws.

1272
00:52:13,059 --> 00:52:14,900
Just as he does not give his work,

1273
00:52:15,300 --> 00:52:17,219
except in trade for material values.

1274
00:52:17,780 --> 00:52:19,539
So he does not give the values of

1275
00:52:19,539 --> 00:52:22,734
his spirit. His love his friendship, his esteem,

1276
00:52:23,607 --> 00:52:26,225
accept payment and in trade for human virtue.

1277
00:52:26,702 --> 00:52:28,686
In payment for his own selfish pleasure.

1278
00:52:29,179 --> 00:52:31,497
Which he receives from men he can respect.

1279
00:52:32,695 --> 00:52:33,255
Close quote.

1280
00:52:34,774 --> 00:52:35,733
Trade is moral,

1281
00:52:36,292 --> 00:52:38,450
not because it achieves the welfare of the

1282
00:52:38,450 --> 00:52:40,383
meek. Or the wealth of the nation.

1283
00:52:41,262 --> 00:52:41,762
Trades

1284
00:52:42,380 --> 00:52:45,198
justification is not that it's somehow commute selfish

1285
00:52:45,817 --> 00:52:46,796
into self sacrifice.

1286
00:52:47,748 --> 00:52:50,635
Adam Smith's invisible hand, taken as a

1287
00:52:51,090 --> 00:52:52,283
justification is corrupt.

1288
00:52:53,317 --> 00:52:55,249
Trade needs no outside

1289
00:52:55,704 --> 00:52:55,863
justification.

1290
00:52:56,674 --> 00:52:57,174
The

1291
00:52:57,550 --> 00:52:59,860
justification of trade is precisely that it's trade.

1292
00:53:00,577 --> 00:53:03,444
It's an interaction in which each person is

1293
00:53:03,444 --> 00:53:05,197
able to pursue his self interest.

1294
00:53:05,929 --> 00:53:08,166
It is the only form of interaction, in

1295
00:53:08,166 --> 00:53:11,122
which men meet 1 another as equals, not

1296
00:53:11,122 --> 00:53:12,800
as exploit and exploited it.

1297
00:53:14,009 --> 00:53:14,883
What is the result?

1298
00:53:15,837 --> 00:53:18,777
What happens when say? You trade your paycheck

1299
00:53:18,777 --> 00:53:19,810
for a new computer.

1300
00:53:21,179 --> 00:53:24,295
Both parties achieved their self interest. You both

1301
00:53:24,295 --> 00:53:26,851
obtain something more valuable to you than that

1302
00:53:26,851 --> 00:53:27,570
which you give up.

1303
00:53:28,463 --> 00:53:30,936
Trade is the only form of human interaction

1304
00:53:30,936 --> 00:53:33,010
that it once demand self esteem.

1305
00:53:33,648 --> 00:53:36,121
It demands that each trader be seeking the

1306
00:53:36,121 --> 00:53:37,397
best for his own life.

1307
00:53:38,447 --> 00:53:41,383
And in turn allows each person to preserve

1308
00:53:41,383 --> 00:53:44,025
his self esteem because he has neither sacrificed

1309
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:45,192
his self to others.

1310
00:53:46,001 --> 00:53:48,385
Nor try to cheat reality through the double

1311
00:53:48,385 --> 00:53:51,643
standard of demanding sacrifice of others to self.

1312
00:53:53,327 --> 00:53:53,726
Trade,

1313
00:53:54,602 --> 00:53:55,797
production and thought.

1314
00:53:56,434 --> 00:53:59,403
These form the core of atlas rug new

1315
00:53:59,859 --> 00:54:01,293
life based morality.

1316
00:54:04,340 --> 00:54:08,012
Now notice how stark this ideal contrast to

1317
00:54:08,012 --> 00:54:10,727
the sermon on the mount religious conception of

1318
00:54:10,727 --> 00:54:11,126
morality.

1319
00:54:12,177 --> 00:54:14,424
Faith, hope and charity

1320
00:54:14,798 --> 00:54:15,671
are its virtue.

1321
00:54:17,101 --> 00:54:19,721
Faith means belief in the absence of logic.

1322
00:54:20,454 --> 00:54:22,292
It is the opposite of thought.

1323
00:54:23,491 --> 00:54:25,889
Hope means that you are unable to reach

1324
00:54:25,889 --> 00:54:26,708
the ideal

1325
00:54:27,087 --> 00:54:29,619
that perfection is beyond you reach

1326
00:54:29,978 --> 00:54:32,530
but that that but that by God's grace,

1327
00:54:32,690 --> 00:54:35,183
you might obtain it in some alleged

1328
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:35,799
life.

1329
00:54:36,597 --> 00:54:38,452
It is the opposite of working

1330
00:54:38,764 --> 00:54:40,922
to achieve the ideal in this life.

1331
00:54:41,561 --> 00:54:43,478
It is the opposite of production.

1332
00:54:45,556 --> 00:54:46,056
Charity

1333
00:54:46,689 --> 00:54:49,322
means giving yourself over body and soul to

1334
00:54:49,322 --> 00:54:51,078
your neighbor and even your enemy.

1335
00:54:51,716 --> 00:54:54,291
With the expectation of no return

1336
00:54:54,844 --> 00:54:56,759
It is the opposite of trade.

1337
00:54:58,275 --> 00:55:00,668
Jesus on the cross exhibited these virtue.

1338
00:55:01,307 --> 00:55:03,075
He had the faith. That there was an

1339
00:55:03,075 --> 00:55:04,189
other otherworldly father.

1340
00:55:04,985 --> 00:55:06,974
He had the hope that he would gain

1341
00:55:06,974 --> 00:55:09,225
the grace of this other otherworldly being

1342
00:55:09,934 --> 00:55:12,322
He had the charity to sacrifice his own

1343
00:55:12,322 --> 00:55:13,993
soul for those of sinner.

1344
00:55:15,108 --> 00:55:16,381
The result was his death.

1345
00:55:18,308 --> 00:55:21,182
For a morality of life, this cannot be

1346
00:55:21,182 --> 00:55:23,178
the image of the moral ideal.

1347
00:55:24,855 --> 00:55:25,574
What then is.

1348
00:55:27,663 --> 00:55:29,645
The great thinkers and producers,

1349
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:31,152
the men of the mind,

1350
00:55:31,865 --> 00:55:33,530
the heroes of Atlas shrugged,

1351
00:55:34,244 --> 00:55:34,981
the scientists,

1352
00:55:35,608 --> 00:55:36,108
philosophers,

1353
00:55:36,562 --> 00:55:36,880
artists,

1354
00:55:37,437 --> 00:55:38,891
inventors and industrial

1355
00:55:39,346 --> 00:55:41,733
who make a human mode of existence possible.

1356
00:55:42,861 --> 00:55:44,611
Individuals like Aristotle, newton,

1357
00:55:45,168 --> 00:55:46,622
Edison and Rockefeller.

1358
00:55:48,429 --> 00:55:50,655
Remember Jefferson gallery of war,

1359
00:55:51,628 --> 00:55:53,783
Who were some of the individuals included in

1360
00:55:53,783 --> 00:55:55,380
it, other than himself?

1361
00:55:56,976 --> 00:55:59,530
Philosophers like Francis Bacon and John Lock,

1362
00:56:00,344 --> 00:56:03,220
scientists like Isaac Newton and Benjamin Franklin,

1363
00:56:03,939 --> 00:56:06,735
political thinkers and men of action, like Volta,

1364
00:56:07,228 --> 00:56:08,816
T and Thomas Pain.

1365
00:56:09,689 --> 00:56:10,721
In Iran's terms,

1366
00:56:11,277 --> 00:56:12,070
men of the mind.

1367
00:56:13,420 --> 00:56:15,920
And this in a nutshell is the greatness

1368
00:56:15,975 --> 00:56:16,871
of the American

1369
00:56:17,244 --> 00:56:17,403
revolution.

1370
00:56:18,117 --> 00:56:19,172
It was the possibility

1371
00:56:19,625 --> 00:56:22,481
of such ideal men that served as its

1372
00:56:22,481 --> 00:56:23,036
motive power.

1373
00:56:24,322 --> 00:56:26,706
And the tragedy of the revolution is that

1374
00:56:26,865 --> 00:56:28,955
Jefferson and the other founding fathers

1375
00:56:29,329 --> 00:56:32,134
still thought of Jesus as the sublime preacher

1376
00:56:32,444 --> 00:56:33,640
of the sermon on the mount.

1377
00:56:36,033 --> 00:56:37,730
What atlas shrug shows

1378
00:56:38,107 --> 00:56:40,442
is that the choices either or

1379
00:56:41,058 --> 00:56:43,943
and more, it shows us the Jefferson gallery

1380
00:56:43,943 --> 00:56:44,682
of war

1381
00:56:45,058 --> 00:56:46,971
or worthy of that which they had never

1382
00:56:46,971 --> 00:56:47,710
been granted

1383
00:56:48,166 --> 00:56:48,326
before.

1384
00:56:49,122 --> 00:56:49,622
Moral

1385
00:56:49,934 --> 00:56:50,092
fact,

1386
00:56:50,807 --> 00:56:51,307
moral

1387
00:56:51,681 --> 00:56:53,427
admiration, and moral esteem.

1388
00:56:54,936 --> 00:56:57,818
In atlas shrugged, the character of hank rear

1389
00:56:58,369 --> 00:57:00,849
is the representative of the man of self

1390
00:57:00,849 --> 00:57:02,849
esteem of the true America.

1391
00:57:03,809 --> 00:57:05,945
Rear is a man of tremendous intellect

1392
00:57:07,022 --> 00:57:08,480
drive and productivity,

1393
00:57:09,257 --> 00:57:10,933
who is denounced for his ability.

1394
00:57:11,811 --> 00:57:14,205
And although he possesses the core of self

1395
00:57:14,205 --> 00:57:17,508
esteem, He's h by the thought that morally

1396
00:57:17,884 --> 00:57:18,622
he's un.

1397
00:57:20,192 --> 00:57:22,125
Atlas the shrug is a story of his

1398
00:57:22,342 --> 00:57:22,501
liberation.

1399
00:57:23,472 --> 00:57:26,445
To all such men of real self esteem

1400
00:57:26,743 --> 00:57:28,678
atlas the shrugged throws a lifeline

1401
00:57:29,056 --> 00:57:30,832
from the morality of sacrifice.

1402
00:57:32,326 --> 00:57:32,565
Quote,

1403
00:57:33,376 --> 00:57:35,522
They had known that theirs was the power.

1404
00:57:36,715 --> 00:57:38,861
I taught them that theirs was the glory.

1405
00:57:39,974 --> 00:57:40,133
Quote.

1406
00:57:44,275 --> 00:57:46,021
Now why did Ina rand do all of

1407
00:57:46,021 --> 00:57:47,608
this in the form of a novel?

1408
00:57:49,851 --> 00:57:52,900
Well precisely because her concern was the moral

1409
00:57:53,196 --> 00:57:53,435
ideal.

1410
00:57:54,231 --> 00:57:55,448
She wanted to give

1411
00:57:55,904 --> 00:57:59,032
material expression to her new vision of the

1412
00:57:59,032 --> 00:57:59,271
ideal.

1413
00:57:59,990 --> 00:58:01,988
The form in which 1 does this is

1414
00:58:01,988 --> 00:58:02,228
art.

1415
00:58:03,346 --> 00:58:05,437
The goal of my writing she said after

1416
00:58:05,517 --> 00:58:09,048
Atlas Shrug publication is the projection of an

1417
00:58:09,106 --> 00:58:09,664
ideal man.

1418
00:58:11,100 --> 00:58:14,051
Art allows 1 to experience the ideal made

1419
00:58:14,051 --> 00:58:14,370
real.

1420
00:58:14,943 --> 00:58:17,960
It allows 1 to inhabit that world for

1421
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:18,358
a time.

1422
00:58:19,152 --> 00:58:21,137
As anyone who's read atlas the drug nose,

1423
00:58:21,534 --> 00:58:22,034
the

1424
00:58:22,408 --> 00:58:23,838
contemplation of a great work of art.

1425
00:58:24,489 --> 00:58:26,665
Is an unforgettable and indispensable

1426
00:58:27,043 --> 00:58:27,442
experience.

1427
00:58:28,639 --> 00:58:30,794
Now, I ran, of course knew that 1

1428
00:58:30,794 --> 00:58:33,362
can learn a lot from Atlas shrugged. But

1429
00:58:33,362 --> 00:58:35,436
she regarded this as a secondary benefit.

1430
00:58:35,994 --> 00:58:37,213
The book's primary

1431
00:58:37,749 --> 00:58:41,019
essential value is that within its pages, 1

1432
00:58:41,019 --> 00:58:43,528
experiences her new ideal made per

1433
00:58:44,146 --> 00:58:44,625
and real.

1434
00:58:46,141 --> 00:58:49,334
Any great romantic work of art is to

1435
00:58:49,334 --> 00:58:51,191
quote from 1 of her later essays

1436
00:58:51,582 --> 00:58:55,574
quote, an entity complete in itself, and achieved

1437
00:58:55,947 --> 00:58:56,447
realized

1438
00:58:56,820 --> 00:58:58,487
I movable fact of reality.

1439
00:58:59,059 --> 00:58:59,960
Like a beacon

1440
00:59:00,340 --> 00:59:02,820
raised over the dark crossroads of the world,

1441
00:59:03,300 --> 00:59:03,800
saying

1442
00:59:04,260 --> 00:59:05,140
this is possible.

1443
00:59:06,194 --> 00:59:06,753
Close quote.

1444
00:59:07,471 --> 00:59:10,104
And that's what Atlas shrugged is by presenting

1445
00:59:10,104 --> 00:59:12,976
a new moral ideal of what is possible

1446
00:59:12,976 --> 00:59:13,375
to man.

1447
00:59:14,029 --> 00:59:15,887
Atlas shrugged is America's second

1448
00:59:16,266 --> 00:59:17,624
declaration of independence.

1449
00:59:20,914 --> 00:59:22,905
Now having said this, I bet some of

1450
00:59:22,905 --> 00:59:23,702
you are still wondering,

1451
00:59:24,260 --> 00:59:25,397
is the comparison

1452
00:59:25,773 --> 00:59:28,561
out the shrug to the declaration of independence

1453
00:59:28,561 --> 00:59:29,517
really that exact.

1454
00:59:30,329 --> 00:59:33,359
After all, the declaration won the support of

1455
00:59:33,359 --> 00:59:34,315
the American people,

1456
00:59:34,953 --> 00:59:37,744
whereas Rand iran's new moral ideal has not

1457
00:59:37,744 --> 00:59:37,983
yet.

1458
00:59:39,274 --> 00:59:41,109
Now this is true, but I think

1459
00:59:41,906 --> 00:59:43,422
I mean, it's true only up to a

1460
00:59:43,422 --> 00:59:44,060
certain point.

1461
00:59:45,655 --> 00:59:48,229
First off, the declaration and the American

1462
00:59:48,686 --> 00:59:51,089
revolution hardly had unanimous support.

1463
00:59:51,726 --> 00:59:54,432
This did not stop the founding fathers from

1464
00:59:54,432 --> 00:59:55,228
change in the world.

1465
00:59:57,231 --> 00:59:58,739
Much more importantly, however,

1466
00:59:59,294 --> 01:00:02,411
although although Americans have not yet rejected

1467
01:00:02,863 --> 01:00:04,767
the morality of the sermon on the mount.

1468
01:00:05,338 --> 01:00:07,891
And embraced Ina iran's new morality of life,

1469
01:00:08,608 --> 01:00:10,522
they have embraced atlas shrugged.

1470
01:00:11,958 --> 01:00:14,350
Since its publication in 19 57,

1471
01:00:14,843 --> 01:00:16,434
Atlas shrugged has been popular.

1472
01:00:16,990 --> 01:00:18,661
Last year, it sold over a hundred and

1473
01:00:18,661 --> 01:00:19,479
30000

1474
01:00:19,536 --> 01:00:19,934
copies.

1475
01:00:20,889 --> 01:00:23,235
To be sure, the book is still regularly

1476
01:00:23,930 --> 01:00:26,638
ignored or lamp by many of the cultures

1477
01:00:26,638 --> 01:00:27,377
so called

1478
01:00:27,753 --> 01:00:27,913
intellectual.

1479
01:00:28,804 --> 01:00:31,198
But not so among the nation's citizens.

1480
01:00:32,076 --> 01:00:34,651
Atlas shrugged has already had a significant

1481
01:00:35,108 --> 01:00:36,305
impact on America.

1482
01:00:37,593 --> 01:00:39,898
And you can I believe see this impact

1483
01:00:39,898 --> 01:00:41,487
in 2 broad areas?

1484
01:00:42,361 --> 01:00:44,825
First, it has helped disarm evil.

1485
01:00:46,112 --> 01:00:48,898
And second, it has helped inspire the good.

1486
01:00:51,445 --> 01:00:52,400
Take the first issue.

1487
01:00:53,594 --> 01:00:56,238
Now today, it's hard to imagine. The twentieth

1488
01:00:56,238 --> 01:00:56,738
century

1489
01:00:57,755 --> 01:00:58,793
infatuation with socialist.

1490
01:00:59,751 --> 01:01:01,827
Despite a trickle and then a stream and

1491
01:01:01,827 --> 01:01:04,701
then a torrent of data about the misery

1492
01:01:04,701 --> 01:01:07,890
and deaths socialism was producing in the country's

1493
01:01:07,890 --> 01:01:08,762
experimenting with it.

1494
01:01:09,871 --> 01:01:12,011
Intellectual cl to it as the coming of

1495
01:01:12,011 --> 01:01:12,566
heaven on earth.

1496
01:01:13,375 --> 01:01:16,021
In America socialism was to come not by

1497
01:01:16,316 --> 01:01:18,462
revolution, but peace meal and by vote.

1498
01:01:19,654 --> 01:01:22,774
Now there were other insightful critics of socialism,

1499
01:01:23,493 --> 01:01:24,452
especially some economists,

1500
01:01:25,091 --> 01:01:27,808
but none was more penetrating than 9 rand.

1501
01:01:28,687 --> 01:01:30,845
In atlas shrugged and are later writings,

1502
01:01:31,339 --> 01:01:34,715
She stripped socialism of its cloak of rationality.

1503
01:01:35,733 --> 01:01:37,511
She showed it to be neo mystic,

1504
01:01:37,970 --> 01:01:38,804
a secular

1505
01:01:39,501 --> 01:01:42,393
version of religion of religion, a secular

1506
01:01:42,930 --> 01:01:43,887
version of religion.

1507
01:01:45,163 --> 01:01:48,918
The intellectual ignored or ridiculed Atlas shrugged in

1508
01:01:48,918 --> 01:01:50,661
an attempt to evade its existence,

1509
01:01:51,215 --> 01:01:53,434
but they knew the critique existed.

1510
01:01:55,114 --> 01:01:56,174
Now, a major

1511
01:01:56,553 --> 01:01:59,430
explanation of socialism lost appeal is, of course,

1512
01:01:59,670 --> 01:02:02,967
the devastation and death it produced in Britain

1513
01:02:03,026 --> 01:02:04,645
in Russia in Germany

1514
01:02:04,959 --> 01:02:05,595
and in China.

1515
01:02:06,470 --> 01:02:08,617
But my point is that that awareness of

1516
01:02:08,617 --> 01:02:11,821
the devastation was not sufficient for socialism

1517
01:02:12,195 --> 01:02:12,434
demise.

1518
01:02:13,324 --> 01:02:15,947
The socialists were always ready with an excuse.

1519
01:02:17,139 --> 01:02:19,285
Socialism had not been fully implemented,

1520
01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:22,067
or we didn't wait for the latest 5

1521
01:02:22,067 --> 01:02:23,858
year plan to bear fruit

1522
01:02:24,477 --> 01:02:28,093
or monstrous extremist like Stalin Hitler and M

1523
01:02:28,312 --> 01:02:29,990
have hijacked a peaceful system.

1524
01:02:31,518 --> 01:02:34,376
Socialism is noble in theory they cried, but

1525
01:02:34,376 --> 01:02:36,201
men aren't yet good enough to practice it.

1526
01:02:36,836 --> 01:02:38,027
We must try again.

1527
01:02:40,186 --> 01:02:42,967
Atlas the shrug showed that socialism is anti

1528
01:02:42,967 --> 01:02:43,943
life and practice

1529
01:02:44,635 --> 01:02:46,384
because it's irrational in theory.

1530
01:02:48,940 --> 01:02:51,401
Intellectually at the shrug made the choice confronting

1531
01:02:51,401 --> 01:02:52,512
the socialist clear.

1532
01:02:53,306 --> 01:02:54,759
Choose the men of the mind

1533
01:02:55,068 --> 01:02:56,286
by embracing capitalism

1534
01:02:56,983 --> 01:02:59,078
or choose to remain anti capitalist

1535
01:02:59,456 --> 01:03:00,971
by reno the men of the mind,

1536
01:03:01,768 --> 01:03:04,640
Most socialists chose to remain anti capitalist.

1537
01:03:05,453 --> 01:03:07,688
They were to thus revealed for the sn

1538
01:03:07,688 --> 01:03:09,125
meal that they are,

1539
01:03:09,764 --> 01:03:12,558
and Americans increasingly abandoned the left.

1540
01:03:14,886 --> 01:03:16,950
But not only did Atlas shrugged in this

1541
01:03:16,950 --> 01:03:19,252
way help give Americans some breathing room.

1542
01:03:19,887 --> 01:03:22,348
It also provided them with clean air to

1543
01:03:22,348 --> 01:03:22,825
breathe in,

1544
01:03:24,586 --> 01:03:25,483
When prominent

1545
01:03:25,855 --> 01:03:27,839
individuals in the culture are asked to name

1546
01:03:27,839 --> 01:03:30,140
the books that have had the most impact

1547
01:03:30,140 --> 01:03:32,938
on them, they regularly name Atlas Shrugged.

1548
01:03:33,972 --> 01:03:36,040
The number of times that Doctor Brooke, the

1549
01:03:36,358 --> 01:03:37,710
Institute executive director.

1550
01:03:38,283 --> 01:03:39,261
In his travels

1551
01:03:39,639 --> 01:03:41,414
meets successful businessman,

1552
01:03:42,349 --> 01:03:42,849
enthusiastic

1553
01:03:43,226 --> 01:03:46,096
about Atlas Road and its formative influence on

1554
01:03:46,096 --> 01:03:46,255
them.

1555
01:03:46,907 --> 01:03:48,178
Has ceased to surprises us.

1556
01:03:49,686 --> 01:03:51,672
Atlas the shrugged has given men of the

1557
01:03:51,672 --> 01:03:53,895
mind a sense that it is good to

1558
01:03:53,895 --> 01:03:54,133
produce,

1559
01:03:54,784 --> 01:03:58,140
It has inspired businessman and entrepreneurs by showing

1560
01:03:58,140 --> 01:03:59,977
them that their work is noble.

1561
01:04:00,936 --> 01:04:01,835
A significant

1562
01:04:09,882 --> 01:04:11,875
Aspect of the revival of the business in

1563
01:04:11,875 --> 01:04:13,390
the of business in the eighties,

1564
01:04:13,948 --> 01:04:14,927
and of the technological

1565
01:04:15,383 --> 01:04:17,695
and entrepreneurial revolution in the nineties,

1566
01:04:18,347 --> 01:04:20,965
in silicon Valley and beyond is this.

1567
01:04:21,599 --> 01:04:24,932
The participants implicitly think that what they are

1568
01:04:24,932 --> 01:04:25,725
doing is good.

1569
01:04:26,851 --> 01:04:29,074
This is a conviction that Atlas shrugged has

1570
01:04:29,074 --> 01:04:29,789
helped create.

1571
01:04:32,567 --> 01:04:35,528
Now at the intellectual level, Atlas Shrugged has

1572
01:04:35,528 --> 01:04:37,366
accomplished at least the following.

1573
01:04:38,165 --> 01:04:41,122
It has helped resurrect the idea of capitalism.

1574
01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:45,207
Before Atlas shrugged, capitalism was not just a

1575
01:04:45,207 --> 01:04:47,599
dirty word. It was an unspeakable word.

1576
01:04:48,555 --> 01:04:50,787
The book put it back on the intellectual

1577
01:04:50,787 --> 01:04:51,026
map.

1578
01:04:51,838 --> 01:04:54,173
And so although today the essence of capitalism

1579
01:04:54,231 --> 01:04:56,965
is still far from understood, the possibility

1580
01:04:57,422 --> 01:04:59,655
of it being understood now exists.

1581
01:05:01,743 --> 01:05:03,435
Atlas Rung has helped gain

1582
01:05:03,810 --> 01:05:06,536
recognition for human intelligence and ability

1583
01:05:07,069 --> 01:05:08,023
for man's mind.

1584
01:05:09,215 --> 01:05:10,940
Prior to atlas shrugged in

1585
01:05:11,619 --> 01:05:13,936
intellectual pratt on about human instincts,

1586
01:05:14,655 --> 01:05:18,430
material resources, and manual labor as the sources

1587
01:05:18,585 --> 01:05:19,325
of prosperity.

1588
01:05:20,425 --> 01:05:22,925
Today, many more people understand that the value

1589
01:05:23,224 --> 01:05:23,724
potential

1590
01:05:24,184 --> 01:05:27,280
contained in material resources and human labor

1591
01:05:27,717 --> 01:05:28,933
remains unrealized,

1592
01:05:29,547 --> 01:05:32,115
absent the actual source of prosperity,

1593
01:05:33,126 --> 01:05:34,001
human intelligence.

1594
01:05:35,454 --> 01:05:38,574
Today, companies and nations alike talk about the

1595
01:05:38,574 --> 01:05:40,255
importance of human capital.

1596
01:05:43,309 --> 01:05:44,823
Now these I believe are some of the

1597
01:05:44,823 --> 01:05:47,850
first steps in the march towards independence for

1598
01:05:47,850 --> 01:05:48,966
the men of self esteem.

1599
01:05:50,081 --> 01:05:52,392
In atlas shrugged, they have been inspired by

1600
01:05:52,392 --> 01:05:55,352
a vision of what can and should be.

1601
01:05:57,262 --> 01:06:00,070
However, it's true. They have not yet come

1602
01:06:00,366 --> 01:06:03,487
close to fully understanding that vision and the

1603
01:06:03,487 --> 01:06:05,241
conditions under which it can endure,

1604
01:06:06,277 --> 01:06:08,510
While the thinkers and producers of to... Sorry,

1605
01:06:08,669 --> 01:06:10,902
when the thinkers of and producers of today,

1606
01:06:11,300 --> 01:06:13,378
x explicitly talk about morality.

1607
01:06:14,092 --> 01:06:16,098
Some version of the sermon on the mount

1608
01:06:16,153 --> 01:06:17,659
usually still gus forth.

1609
01:06:19,659 --> 01:06:22,849
Moreover culturally, the intellectual have regroup.

1610
01:06:23,726 --> 01:06:27,235
Centuries ago after the brutality of religious rule,

1611
01:06:27,714 --> 01:06:30,940
the intellectual in effects said, the supernatural

1612
01:06:31,475 --> 01:06:33,069
version of the sermon on the mount has

1613
01:06:33,069 --> 01:06:33,388
failed.

1614
01:06:33,945 --> 01:06:35,778
So let's try the secular version.

1615
01:06:36,987 --> 01:06:38,817
Today, what we are beginning to see.

1616
01:06:41,045 --> 01:06:43,671
Is the intellectual saying that the secular version

1617
01:06:43,671 --> 01:06:45,262
of the sermon on the mountain has failed?

1618
01:06:45,914 --> 01:06:46,655
So let's

1619
01:06:46,954 --> 01:06:48,015
retry the supernatural

1620
01:06:48,394 --> 01:06:48,474
version.

1621
01:06:49,434 --> 01:06:51,914
It's always a game in which tails you

1622
01:06:51,914 --> 01:06:53,355
lose heads they win.

1623
01:06:55,913 --> 01:06:57,978
So what remains to be done to in

1624
01:06:57,978 --> 01:07:01,869
fact make at shrugged America's second declaration of

1625
01:07:01,869 --> 01:07:02,187
independence?

1626
01:07:03,554 --> 01:07:06,268
First, we must recognize that the hardest thing

1627
01:07:06,268 --> 01:07:08,742
in the world for someone to do is

1628
01:07:08,742 --> 01:07:11,456
question his moral code and embrace a new

1629
01:07:11,456 --> 01:07:11,615
1.

1630
01:07:12,510 --> 01:07:14,510
It is not an accident that in some

1631
01:07:14,510 --> 01:07:17,230
2000 years since the sermon on the mount,

1632
01:07:17,949 --> 01:07:21,230
only 1 individual has challenged that ab dismal

1633
01:07:21,230 --> 01:07:21,730
sermon

1634
01:07:22,045 --> 01:07:24,844
and proposed a radically new moral coat.

1635
01:07:26,925 --> 01:07:28,764
And this is why we must get atlas

1636
01:07:28,764 --> 01:07:30,684
the shrugged in as many hands as we

1637
01:07:30,684 --> 01:07:30,844
can't.

1638
01:07:31,738 --> 01:07:34,052
Especially among the young who are more willing

1639
01:07:34,052 --> 01:07:35,568
to question received wisdom.

1640
01:07:36,526 --> 01:07:39,295
We must learn and then continuously argue you

1641
01:07:39,413 --> 01:07:41,951
for In rand new morality of life and

1642
01:07:41,951 --> 01:07:43,720
against the morality of sacrifice.

1643
01:07:44,409 --> 01:07:46,788
And we must show the implications of each

1644
01:07:46,788 --> 01:07:47,239
code

1645
01:07:47,599 --> 01:07:50,159
for every important issue of the day.

1646
01:07:51,039 --> 01:07:52,880
In short, we must do the kind of

1647
01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:54,900
work that the institute is doing

1648
01:07:55,199 --> 01:07:56,719
on an ever increasing in scale.

1649
01:07:58,567 --> 01:08:00,956
And we should do this work not because

1650
01:08:00,956 --> 01:08:03,106
the world might go to hell in 30

1651
01:08:03,106 --> 01:08:03,982
or 40 years.

1652
01:08:05,909 --> 01:08:08,469
Although it might, that's not the issue. The

1653
01:08:08,469 --> 01:08:11,289
founding fathers did not create a new nation

1654
01:08:11,429 --> 01:08:13,030
because the world was about to go to

1655
01:08:13,030 --> 01:08:13,190
hell.

1656
01:08:14,160 --> 01:08:16,627
They create a new nation because they wanted

1657
01:08:16,627 --> 01:08:18,139
to achieve the ideal.

1658
01:08:19,015 --> 01:08:20,231
They were not motivated

1659
01:08:20,686 --> 01:08:22,857
by a negative, but by a positive

1660
01:08:23,643 --> 01:08:25,229
in the words of atlas shrugged,

1661
01:08:25,864 --> 01:08:28,006
it was not death that they wish to

1662
01:08:28,006 --> 01:08:30,465
avoid, but life that they wished to live.

1663
01:08:32,154 --> 01:08:34,071
In the name of what is possible and

1664
01:08:34,071 --> 01:08:36,248
on this, Atlas shrug fiftieth

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anniversary, let us be grateful. For the ideal

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and self esteem that atlas the shrug can

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bring to our own lives if we work

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at them.

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And let us take our turn now. To

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pledge our honor to achieving the ideal and

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self esteem, which Atlas shrugged alone can bring

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back to America.

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Thank you.

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