Start of the new cycle

[David Horn]

(10-05-2018, 05:35 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote:

(10-04-2018, 04:22 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Ayn Rand is an extremist, and  it is a good thing that nobody has built a political order upon her principles.

Absolutely. I'm not a Rand supporter, and never was. I only agree with some stuff that she said about the countercultural movements being the rebellion against reason. Her worship of selfishness and contempt for altruism is wicked in the extreme. It's worth noting that La Vey, the founder of modern Satanism, held Rand in high regard.

I think we will be done with Randians in the next cycle, because post-scarcity is closer and closer, and the power of money will be waning. The main reason why people worship money is that money can buy you pleasures. But in the future, more and more pleasures will be available in virtual reality for free.

I couldn't disagree more.  Plutocrats are plutocrats because we allow them to be.  Apparently, we seem to need them … or many of us do.  Free is only free if we don't allow someone the right of ownership.  We've already seen ownership extend to amorphous concepts like the community square.  Facebook owns that because we allowed it.  The fact that no one knows how to control thoughts for profit doesn't mean it would happen at some point in the future.

Don't discount greed until it's fully contained.