Bad News For Democrats

[Brian37]

In a diverse world of 7 billion, I don't like either. The flaws that lead to Ayn Rand's thinking is the same thing that lead to the credulous thinking that virgin births happen and a man magically survived rigor mortis. Worship of an idea is stupid, especially when we project that idea on other humans.

Simple labels and one word ideologies in an evolution that has never been monochromatic, and has always been complex, and a range, both Rand's thinking and that of all political and religious labels is absurd.

Our species, being the people we like and our "enemies" have always had the same core drive, to find resources and to survive. Once our species gets a collective wider grip on that fact of nature, what makes Ayn full of shit, and what makes worship of ideas based on politics and religion, moot and out dated. Christians support Jesus for the same reason Muslims support Allah, and others support Ayn, making the same stupid mistake, "It works for me",

Where humans can maximize civility and minimize violence, will never be focusing on "us vs them", but our collective willingness to test data beyond our personal clubs, and the fortitude to be willing to accept when we are wrong.

One of our biggest hurdles as a species is that we default to our "desires" not understanding that our perceptions are notoriously flawed, and the only common resource to settle disputes of reality is our common scientific method that we benefit every day from without realizing it. Computers work not because someone worshiped Ayn's Libertarianism. They do not work because someone prayed to Allah, or Jesus. They work because of decades of people making observations about machine language.

It is why we have gone as a species from the Model T ford, to hybrids. It is why we have gone from the Write Brothers to 787s.

We have always been tribal as a species, but we forget constantly, that no matter what tribe we ascribe to, our goal has always been the same, survival.