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[stevenkreisman]

Excellent video! Thanks, ARI, and keep up your outstanding productiveness!

[lifeisabadjoke]

People hate her because she preach love yourself first & people hate themselves

[brrradley]

What a great video, so optimistic. Good job!

[davee]

How I'd love to visit you!! I'm almost 18 and I've read "The Virtue of Selfishness" and I'm absolutely in love with this philosophy!! It's the guide of my life from now on!!

[SwordOfApollo]

Don't settle for impostors.
Support the real deal, the Ayn Rand Institute.
Thank you.
P.S. As a supplement, you can also google and find my site, Objectivism In Depth.

[robertmilenberg]

The primary purpose of the Ayn Rand Institute is not the advance of Objectivism. It is the self enrichment and personal comfort of the people who work there. About half of ARI's revenue goes straight into their pockets in the form of salaries often at $100, 000 to $400, 000. $1 million is often spent on office space and travel expenses per year. ARI 's revenues have been flat at about 10 million per year for many years. They are devoting so much of their revenue to salaries financing their country club lifestyle and self-dealing transactions they have financially crippled ARI to the point where it cannot grow.
ARI is a 501 c chapter s corporation and must file a tax return with the IRS on Form 990. These are public documents and are available on the internet. Track them down and see for yourself how they're actually spending their contributor's money.

[JorgeMoreno-mmsm]

I’m still not sure if this is a meme or if it’s for real

[kafka-e]

Why does it feel, this advertisement is contradicting itself

[asstone]

Hans-Herman Hoppe in this speech, addresses what left vs right means and he shows that it is not individualism vs collectivism or capitalism vs socialism. It is equality vs hierarchy and even deeper it is a world view based on socio-biology vs a worldview based on the blank slate view of human nature.

Sadly, Rand herself held a blank slate view of human nature which we can forgive her for because she did not have access to the ton of information we have on the related subjects now. Hoppe explains how one of the most important events for humanity was that the northern peoples, ie lighter skinned people, developed greater cognitive skills because of the selection pressures from dealing with the harsh winters from the last mini-ice age (glacial minimum). This changed both the IQ and the reproductive strategies of the various races. This has consequences. Hoppe is the most hated of the Austrians because he has gone down the path of race and sex realism, ie hereditarianism, and included it in his approach to libertarianism. He has gone beyond Rothbard here. Obleftivism at large refuses to do this because it has such a commitment to Rand's blank slate view of individualism that it just won't recognize group differences for fear that it would destroy the entire movement and liberty itself.

[damiravdibasic]

Why does this feel like a scientology ad

[rexfelt]

I love her ideas, but I still can’t believe that she supported abortion. Ugh.

[denxero]

Ffs with this ideological cancer already. And the irony of the institute have been made possible only thanks to public funds.