What a title? Gets the dander of any altruistic person right up. Piques the interest. Yet the philosophy of Ayn Rand, when we come to understand it, is more truthful and realistic that any other that I have read about. It provides a rational basis for values that they (we) hold. The stoics say that virtue is the highest value, which to Rand is further down the list. Reality, rationality, selfishness, that is the primacy of our existence, come first.
Well, are we not supposed to altruistic, that is doing for others? Well, even when we do something for others, we are doing it for how we feel after, the warm glow of doing something for others, even when they did not want what you did. Well, do not expect to be thanked to much, you were/are forcing the potentially unwanted onto others. That is not just. that is not fair, unless they wanted it. How many of you have old aunts, grandparents, etc. Push food much?
Selfishness actually means, in this case, concern with one's own interests. What else should we be concerned with? We need to learn to mind our own business, rationally know what is in our best interests, our own purpose, which should be, first, take care of ourselves. There is no moral judgement in this statement, it does not state what is in mans interests either, that is for ethics. We humans are equal, and that is the foundation for justice, not privilege of others over us, nor for us to enslave others. That is the danger to both sides. Being both a atheists and into objectivism is difficult; being an objectivist is automatically atheist and supernatural or god shit is not rational. There is nothing in those things to be objective about. So perhaps I have moved from an atheist to being one of the collective.
The collective is what Ayn called here group, or followers, or cult...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFoUeE2iKtA
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