| | To change something you must first understand the problems involved. I was listening to NPR (National Public Radiofor you not from the USA) On my 1.5 hour drive to work and they are quite a voice for liberal politics for the most part, although there are a few exceptions. On Tuesday night I heard that a program was going to be exploring Ayn Rand as it was the 100th anniversery of her birthday the next day. I made a note to check out the program on the web the next day. The next day yet another program was doing the same thing. So I listened to that one first, and it was almost a carbon copy of a similar program fro the nineties. They had Andrew Berstein on and a few people expressed positive views about Rand and Objectivism, before the slam fest of call ins began. It centered around the typical "adolecent" simplicity of Rand's philosophy and how it was wrong and you grew out of it. So, I stopped this web-cast and changed to the show from the previous night, It was the same, except they had someone from TOC instead. The same thing happened only worse. Two or Three anti-Rand people were on and the host often talked over the TOC gentleman while bringing on anti-Rand callers (which he knew from the pre-screening obviously.) The only high points were a breif call to Barbara Branden and a couple of excellent points by the TOC gentleman. So what can one get from this albeit biased view of Rand? Well take into consideration how many Objectivists you know and how many non-Objectivists you know. I don't want to sound negative or defeatists, but I do want to focus on the situation as it is now, so that we can decide what must be done. I think the answer does lie with the younger generations. We must get the word out and encourage Reason. From Reason the rest will be so much easier. Surely "coverting" adults is a great thing to help us spread ideas, but the young today, are the thinkers and builders of tomorrow. So we can start there, and get immense value in the fight as well as value for our children who we value, in the form of a better society.
Ethan
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