Saturday, January 27, 2024

The Ethics of the Society of the Snow

In Netflix's Society of the Snow Roberto, one of the survivors of a plane crash in the Andes, says to Numa:
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[Roberto coughs]
‘Cause my faith…
Sorry, Numa.
…isn’t in your God. Because that God tells me what I’m supposed to do at home. But he doesn’t tell me what to do on the mountain.
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Just a few lines of script, perfectly expressing Ayn Rand's revolutionary idea that ethics is not a social arbitrary convention, but an existential human issue. All other systems of morality tell man how to behave towards others or towards god(s). Rand views ethics as a guide to action, objectively needed in all circumstances, regardless of whether they're at their downtown office or alone on a desert island.

Thursday, January 18, 2024

Javier Milei speaks at Davos

By who knows what miracle, the President of Argentina Javier Milei was invited to speak at the World Economic Forum, by Klaus Schwab himself - the promoter of world's worst ideas, such as The Great Reset. Milei's speech was in total opposition to every single tenet the WEF holds. They will probably regret inviting him for the rest of their lives.

Key notes from his speech:

[The detractors] say that capitalism is evil because it's individualistic and that collectivism is good because it's altruistic. Of course, with the money of others.
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Unfortunately, in recent decades, the main leaders of the Western world have abandoned the model of freedom for different versions of what we call collectivism. We're here to tell you that collectivist experiments are never the solution to the problems that afflict the citizens of the world. Rather, they are the root cause.
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The problem is that social justice is not just, and it doesn't contribute to general well-being.
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In other words, capitalist successful business people are social benefactors who, far from appropriating the wealth of others, contribute to the general well-being. Ultimately, a successful entrepreneur is a hero.
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This is how we come to the point where, by using different names or guises, a good deal of the generally accepted ideologies in most Western countries are collectivist variants, whether they proclaim to be openly communist, fascist, socialist, social democrats, national socialists, Christian democrats, neo-Keynesians, progressives, populists, nationalists or globalists. Ultimately, there are no major differences. They all say that the state should steer all aspects of the lives of individuals. They all defend a model contrary to the one that led humanity to the most spectacular progress in its history.
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Therefore, in conclusion, I would like to leave a message for all business people [...] from around the world. Do not be intimidated by the political caste or by parasites who live off the state. Do not surrender to a political class that only wants to stay in power and retain its privileges. You are social benefactors. You are heroes. You are the creators of the most extraordinary period of prosperity we've ever seen.
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Great speech! Go Milei! 😃🥳🥳