a jedna trochu nekapitalisticka otazka: uz nekdo na ten film nasel torrent? :-)

"But I believe I made it clear that I am in favor of it, because I am in favor of a free economy. A free economy cannot exist without competition. Therefore, men must be forced to compete. Therefore, we must control men in order to force them to be free."

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"It would work very simply," said Balph Eubank. "There should be a law limiting the sale of any book to ten thousand copies. This would throw the literary market open to new talent, fresh ideas and non-commercial writing. If people were forbidden to buy a million copies of the same piece of trash, they would be forced to buy better books."
"You've got something there," said Mort Liddy. "But wouldn't it be kinda tough on the writers' bank accounts?"
"So much the better. Only those whose motive is not money-making should be allowed to write."
"But, Mr. Eubank," asked the young girl in the white dress, "what if more than ten thousand people want to buy a certain book?"
"Ten thousand readers is enough for any book."
"That's not what I mean. I mean, what if they want it?"
"That is irrelevant."
"But if a book has a good story which—"
"Plot is a primitive vulgarity in literature," said Balph Eubank contemptuously.
Dr. Pritchett, on his way across the room to the bar, stopped to say, "Quite so. Just as logic is a primitive vulgarity in philosophy."

nekdy mam pri cteni Ayn dojem ze zila v postmoderni EU

Jsem o tom premyslel, jestli jsem sobec nebo ne, a doslo mi, ze rozhodne ANO, ale ze cela ta debata by byla ze spolecenskeho hlediska smysluplnejsi, kdyby byla spis o hodnotach, ktere jednotlivec zastava.

I sobec zastavajici nejake vyssi hodnoty (lidsky zivot, svoboda jednotlivce, soukromi, nezavislost, pravda...) se totiz muze v mnoha situacich chovat tak, jak by si vsichni ti altruiste prali, aby se choval, na zaklade nekterych jejich kolektivistickych uvah - protoze kdyz clovek autenticky zastava nejake vyssi hodnoty, tak se jejich realizace stava jeho osobnim zajmem a muze tedy probihat v ramci zcela sobeckeho pristupu k seberealizaci a k zivotu. Takovata autenticka forma osobni seberealizace podle me stoji za vsemi objevy, za kreativitou atd.

Na druhy strane altruista zastavajici nizke hodnoty (rovnost, moc, "pravo a poradek", materialismus, dominance, submisivita, hedonismus...) vzdy zustane dobytkem, i kdyby se pri boji za tyto hodnoty obetoval pro druhe sebevic, a i kdyby byl sebevic inteligentni.

Cele je to spis o lidech, a ti si nejsou rovni ani nahodou, a nejlip je to videt prave v pristupu k hodnotam. Vetsina lidi bohuzel patri mezi dobytek, nedokazi sami hodnoty vnimat jako universa, a tyhle hodnoty je pak nutny jim nejak externe v degradovane forme vtloukat do hlavy prostrednictvim vzdelani, mytu a jazyka.

Kolektiviste se ale fatalne myli, kdyz si mysli, ze kolektiv nebo spolecnost mohou byt nositeli hodnot - tim je ve skutecnosti vzdy jen jednotlivec, ktery prip. tyto sve hodnoty muze realizovat ve spolupraci s jinymi jednotlivci v ramci nejakeho kolektivu. Kolektiviste to tedy vidi cele prevracene vzhuru nohama, proto maji porad tendenci vytvaret nejake instituce a urady stojici nad jednotlivcem, cimz to cele jen zhorsi, protoze tyto mocenske pozice vzdy nakonec obsadi prave ten inteligentni dobytek bez hodnot. A pak uz je to jen na revoluci...