Comments on: My Heart Goes Out to Dead Iraqis and Drug War Prisoners http://www.lifeloveandliberty.com/2008/03/04/my-heart-goes-out-to-dead-iraqis-and-drug-war-prisoners/ Philosophical Anarchism, Free Market Economics, and Cultural Bohemianism Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:46:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Richard http://www.lifeloveandliberty.com/2008/03/04/my-heart-goes-out-to-dead-iraqis-and-drug-war-prisoners/#comment-11055 Richard Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:26:23 +0000 http://www.lifeloveandliberty.com/2008/03/04/my-heart-goes-out-to-dead-iraqis-and-drug-war-prisoners/#comment-11055 ... "<i>How does the status quo come to be, anyways? Not through mass support, at least not initially, but through a strong group pushing forward and perpetuating their message despite the barriers in front of them.</i>" Pay more attention to the progress of Objectivism and the efforts of The Ayn Rand Institute. They are steadily growing, their graduates are affecting Supreme Court decisions and occupying lecturing and professorship positions in respectable Universities. Their Op Eds are more and more widely placed, and are increasingly quoted by mainstream media writers. Perhaps, with a little further reading of Objectivism, you and your readers might become a part of that "<i>strong group pushing forward</i>". They are not Libertarians for very good reason. Even though Libertarianism did start with Ayn Rand, its founders and followers have betrayed the rational basis for individual rights and freedoms, and serve only to delay and misrepresent the very thing they claim to seek. … “How does the status quo come to be, anyways? Not through mass support, at least not initially, but through a strong group pushing forward and perpetuating their message despite the barriers in front of them.”

Pay more attention to the progress of Objectivism and the efforts of The Ayn Rand Institute. They are steadily growing, their graduates are affecting Supreme Court decisions and occupying lecturing and professorship positions in respectable Universities. Their Op Eds are more and more widely placed, and are increasingly quoted by mainstream media writers.

Perhaps, with a little further reading of Objectivism, you and your readers might become a part of that “strong group pushing forward“.

They are not Libertarians for very good reason. Even though Libertarianism did start with Ayn Rand, its founders and followers have betrayed the rational basis for individual rights and freedoms, and serve only to delay and misrepresent the very thing they claim to seek.

]]> By: Niccolo Adami http://www.lifeloveandliberty.com/2008/03/04/my-heart-goes-out-to-dead-iraqis-and-drug-war-prisoners/#comment-11040 Niccolo Adami Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:58:23 +0000 http://www.lifeloveandliberty.com/2008/03/04/my-heart-goes-out-to-dead-iraqis-and-drug-war-prisoners/#comment-11040 I have, in my years in the libertarian movement, always wondered what the infatuation with the "masses" was. In any movement, really, the core goal seems to always stray towards this belief that mass support must/will come before direct action - this couldn't be further from the truth. One must really look at it from a perspective of process. How does the status quo come to be, anyways? Not through mass support, at least not initially, but through a strong group pushing forward and perpetuating their message despite the barriers in front of them. This is how revolutions are won - by the strong, not necessarily the many. I have, in my years in the libertarian movement, always wondered what the infatuation with the “masses” was. In any movement, really, the core goal seems to always stray towards this belief that mass support must/will come before direct action - this couldn’t be further from the truth.

One must really look at it from a perspective of process. How does the status quo come to be, anyways? Not through mass support, at least not initially, but through a strong group pushing forward and perpetuating their message despite the barriers in front of them.

This is how revolutions are won - by the strong, not necessarily the many.

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