The Future has become the Past

Kyle Petras

3/4/16

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Anthem Blog #1

The Future has become the Past

Ayn Rand’s philosophies are beyond its time. Some of her ideas model what American and the world have become today. Not only is she confident in her philosophies, but also she is accurate. Ayn Rand’s ideas may seem outlandish, but they are so interesting and some even good sounding. If our government just opened their minds, maybe they would see a new route for America and its people. Even though Rand lived many years ago, her ideas accurately show where America is heading in its future.

With her philosophy of “individualism”, Ayn Rand believes that each man’s moral purpose in life should be his happiness and that everything is fixed. Well, all I can say is that man’s main and moral purpose in life should be his happiness. I don’t know about the world enough to know whether everything is fixed, but I can say that laws and the way the government works are fixed.

The next idea is “selfishness vs. altruism”. Rand believes that people need to figure things out for themselves. I believe that this is not present in today’s society, that some of the impoverished people of America depend on the government to provide for themselves because they don’t have to work. And then the upper class ends up paying taxes to pay for them and their wellbeing. This is just not fair. The upper class work for their money and then have to end up paying half of what they earned back to the government in taxes to spend on things for the country. Look, if my tax dollars goes towards things that I use, such as roads, bridges and others things like that, I would be fine with that, but when it goes to people that are being lazy and don’t have a job and sit on the couch all day waiting for food stamps to arrive at their doorsteps, I get irritated.

The Government has become too powerful. It has taken many rights away from us and restricted things the American people should be able to do. Surveillance is a big one. Why should I have to be watched everywhere I go? There are probably cameras watching me right now as I write this blog.

Love is a little confusing topic for me. I do think people should love others for their virtues and correct their weaknesses. If you correct them, you end up being a better person.

I could cover more, but I’m going over the word limit and ranting a little, but I truly think Ayn Rand’s beliefs are truly amazing. If I could live in a society that has her beliefs, I think I would. She is a genius and I admire her philosophies a lot.