I, the Individual
Introducing the dichotomies of mind and body + Collectivism and Individualism.
Bonus: Stuff that didn’t happen
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How to Judge a Song
First, we need to distinguish between a piece of music and a song. Rand has devoted a whole book on the subject of aesthetics called Romantic Manifesto which she has described music as a psycho-epistemological experience. I’ll provide a few quotes to summarise what she meant when she discussed music: Psycho-epistemologically, the pattern of the response […]
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Domestic terrorism thrived since the early 60s which coincides with the decline of the post war America and Europe. All of them roughly began at the late 60s to early 70s by the same categories of people, this is collectively known as the New Communist movement. The most prominent one in America (other than the Black Power […]
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Anarchy, State and Utopia was American philosopher Robert Nozick’s magnus opus and as a response to John Rawls’ Kantian magnus opus, A Theory of Justice (which we will get into more details of). The book is divided into 3 parts, Anarchy, State and Utopia. In Anarchy, Nozick discussed the Lockean state of nature that individual rights […]
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What is evolution? Evolution is the gradual accumulation of improvement to an end point, it is not to be confused with Revolution which means a recurring change. Evolution can occur both biologically and culturally.Theoretically speaking, evolution only occur if organisms can improve their adaptability to enhance their survival, thus our biology and culture would both lead […]
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The biggest lie still plaguing our world is the idea of “imperialism”. It was popularised by Lenin who claimed “Imperialism was the highest form of capitalism” in his work Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, a book based on fabricated lies to blame the failure of communism on others (Thomas Sowell has a beautiful summary of […]
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Kuo's Gulch 