Individualism
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4. We should teach each child that he should approach life with a degree of skepticism about any idea that preaches collective problems and collective solutions. Teach them to live as thinking, judging individuals, capable of making their own decisions. Teach them to respect the rights of man, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These ideas are more than clichés.
5. Do not live your life (and your children will not live theirs) as if there were divisions that keep people from social intercourse. Fight the tendencies in our society toward division. Fight it in our laws and in our daily lives. Show children that you are willing to be true friends to any person, regardless of color, who shows high character and good will. Show them that you practice what you preach.
6. People must root racial thinking out of their minds. It is not enough to say we are making progress while racism continues to obstruct that progress. We make progress when we look inward and change our minds. Racism, the thought process that deals with people in terms of races and classes, dominant and submissive, has created the sociopolitical stratification that makes oppression possible. When we wonder at the decline of our nation, our economy, our educational systems, we should ask, "Is group division not the reason for it?" We have inadvertently missed the opportunity to have many more successful lives. Many people are under siege, the prey of ideas that allow human beings to think racially.
Conclusion
A truly free society is a society where all men and women can compete fairly. It is a society where being black, or brown, or yellow, or any color has the same connotation as being white, meaning that each person can be, if he or she chooses, as beautiful, wonderful, and deserving of respect and deference as any other. It is a society where each person can think in all conscious and subconscious thoughts that color or genetic inheritance have nothing to do with the beauty and deservedness that is possible to one's soul. It is a society where a person's status is a result of achievement.
When we reach this society, then the promise "if you work hard, you will get ahead" can truly come true. Perhaps we can make fairness an idea whose time has come.
Individualism is the savior of mankind. It is a perspective on human accomplishment that respects man’s mind, his ability to reason, to decide proper action and to live in happiness and productivity. It is the only source of loving life, the only source of human striving and the only human perspective that provides hope for the future and freedom.
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Robert Villegas is an Indiana Author specializing in fiction, romance, theater and philosophy. He was born in South Texas (Weslaco) but raised in Indiana. He is Hispanic-American but American in every sense of the word. He has spent a lifetime in the business world as a UPS executive and also worked in locations all over the United States and Europe. He is an Army veteran who served as a telecommunications specialist serving in the 7th Infantry Division in Camp Casey, Korea. He was educated in Indiana and earned a Degree through the University of the State of NY (Albany) via an external degree program. He is divorced with three grown children and three grandchildren.
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[1] For the best introduction to the subject of how man gains knowledge, see Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology by Ayn Rand
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[3] Altruism means “otherism”
[4] See my book, Behind the Ritual Mask
[5] The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
[6]http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/us/politics/19dems.html?_r=2&ex=1361163600&en=5ca5abcd8dc27e67&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
[7]http://www.nypost.com/seven/09192007/news/nationalnews/tax_the_wealthy___obama.htm
[8] http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29716 Repeal the abominable 16th Amendment! Posted: November 20, 2002 1:00 am Eastern By Ilana Mercer © 2008 WorldNetDaily.com
[9] The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
[10] Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
[11] "The Only Path to Tomorrow," Reader's Digest, Jan 1944, 8.} Quoted by Harry Binswanger in THE AYN RAND LEXICON
[12] Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition
[13] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ethnic
[14] Ibid
[15] Previous chapter, A Primer Against Racism
[16] The Virtue of Selfishness, Racism by Ayn Rand