Onkar Ghate & Ben Bayer - Ayn Rand's 'A Nation's Unity'

Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer discuss Ayn Rand's lecture "A Nation's Unity" in which she argues that a precondition for genuine national unity is the protection of individual rights.

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[alano]

Interesting. Something that caught my attention was Bayer's description of Rand's observation of McGovern assaulting his own Democratic Party factions during the primary campaign and at the Convention itself expecting all his Democrat constituency opponents to come together behind himself. That reminds me of the manner in which Donald Trump used personal insults against several of the Republican candidates running against him (e.g. 'Lying Ted', 'Little Marco'), and then after his nomination expecting all of them to come together behind him. Two very foolish and short-sighted men playing at politics while burning all their bridges behind them.

[YorickReturns]

28:11 Collectivists have a hard time understanding that being part of a group and being an individualist are not necessarily contradictory. Objectivists believe that an individual should pursue his self-interest, which often means rationally (in other words, selfishly) associating with other individuals. An individualist is not someone who shuns collectives. An individualist is someone who shuns the notion that the collective, rather than the individual, is primary. Contra left-wing collectivists, you can care about society without being a socialist. Contra right-wing collectivists, you can care about the nation without being a nationalist. Contra 'libertarians', you can support the existence of a state without being a statist.

Thanks to the ARI for so many great uploads recently. By the way, these longer, more in-depth, talks receive far fewer trolls. That says something about the attention spans of Ayn Rand's critics.

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These webinars are great so keep'em coming.