Preface In my book, “Can Objectivism Save the World I wrote several pages with ideas in different categories that Objectivists can implement in order to help a candidate gain placement in a given field. Here I will publish a supplemental list of new ideas that were not presented in the book. The first new idea is an Objectivist Feeder System. Here is the idea. It is new. Run with it. I can advise, not manage: Idea #1: Using funding from a wealthy funding source or Foundation, establish a “feeder system” non-profit organization for Objectivists who want to establish careers utilizing Objectivist ideas. For example, let us assume that Johnny Gonzalez is a student of Objectivism who demonstrates that he can write an excellent paper utilizing the principles of Objectivism. He will also be required to engage in an interview to gauge his ability to explain Objectivist ideas extemporaneously. The non-profit advisor will help Johnny identify the training he needs to become a top level teache...

I found the above phrase in some materials that I had been working on a few years ago and wondered where I had found it. I realized that several years ago, I had been watching a movie about a horse who had had a tumble on the race track and had lost his enthusiasm for racing, despite the fact that he was a very fast horse. The owner, while contemplating what to do with the horse, probably said something like “He needs to learn how to be a horse again – run until he stops!” Of course, I’m mindful of the idea that running “like a horse” is a real thing applied to very ambitious people who seem to always be working at breakneck speed. Yet, it also occurred to me that the original statement could not only be applied to retired racehorses but to people suffering through depression. If such an individual has lowered his effort because of feeling badly, he or she needs to learn how to be an ambitious human again – work until he stops! I looked up equine rehabilitation concepts and learn...

One Way that Objectivism Can Save the World. by Robert Villegas A few days ago, I posted the following: Someone said, "Objectivism needs more leaders and defenders". Agreed. It also needs a fundraising desk. Not “please donate to philosophy.” I laid the case out in "Can Objectivism Save the World". In one part of my book, I wrote "...Objectivists must be all over the billionaire financiers, bankers and money managers. If they are going to spend their money engineering society in the way that George Soros did, then Objectivists must come calling with a better set of ideas, a new philosophy that actually values money and what it can do to improve people’s lives. Why shouldn’t they invest in solid ideas to build a new capitalist infrastructure for society. Wall Street should become Rand Street. a. Cashing in on freedom and flourishing. If our ideas are correct, we should become the next billionaires among capitalists. To this I envision hundreds of meetings in Ma...

Description: I believe it is the focus on religion that represents one of the major problems of the First Amendment. If you focus only on protecting freedom of religion, you ignore the other areas of expression, especially the opposite of religion which is reason. Shouldn’t there be a freedom of unbelief as well as a freedom of belief? By ignoring the wider concept of freedom of philosophy, you set the stage for a distorted perspective on freedom of speech. This ignores the freedom of people not to believe as well as the freedom of people to create entirely new fields that are influenced by science and the pursuit of knowledge - that have nothing to do with religion or atheism. Freedom of speech should not only be about freedom of belief or freedom of religion. Although these concepts are valid subjects that fall under the freedom of speech, there are other perspectives on the constitutional unalienable rights that we should protect. The widest term possible that includes all freedom...

Description:  This book is targeted at readers who are familiar with the philosophy of Ayn Rand, as well as general readers who are familiar with the goals of her writing. I have always felt that the influence of Objectivism on society was of paramount importance for the history of civilization. I have felt that Objectivism is the philosophy of the future if there is to be a future. This book argues that this is still the case while there is still much to be done that will eventually win the day. The most important principle I have garnered from my studies of Objectivism is that Objectivism is more than a philosophy of standards. Objectivism is a standard of work , and this fact makes Objectivism the most unique philosophy in history. The only thing for Objectivists to do, then, is to get to work, not just to apply the principles of Objectivism, but to take over the world, own it, treasure it, protect it, and live morally under the guidance of a moral code that is truly moral. Imag...

It’s always so good with you,” she said. I turned over to look at her angel’s face and noticed the beads of sweat on her forehead and the tear on her cheek. “Why are you crying?” I asked. She moved to face me and gave me her angel smile. I watched her rise from the bed, put on her halter top and tight shorts, all the while locking her eyes on mine. She walked to the door and walked out of my life before I could ask her to marry me. Maybe she knew somehow. A few weeks later, I learned that Sally had quit college and gotten married to a friend of mine. I had no idea they knew each other. I was told later she picked him randomly in a college dorm and asked him if he knew me and he said “Yes”. My brother knew him too and a few years later told me he had dinner at their house. Sally's husband told my brother about her and me. He admitted that she worshipped only me and no one else. Her big “confession” he said. A few years later I was walking through a shopping mall and no...

  Below you will find part of a chapter in this book entitled “A Life of Sacrifice or a Life in the Danger Zone. “ What is egoism’s answer to sacrifice? I have written above that: “altruism is a violent attack on the individual that leads to exploitation and death for man. Just listen to any altruist and you’ll see, hidden under protestations of love, a hatred of the individual and anything that he might do to further his life and wellbeing.” But what is the ultimate sacrifice? Christianity tells us that Christ made the ultimate sacrifice by suffering intensely and giving his life for mankind. This ultimate sacrifice is the symbol of the suffering savior. We see this in Mel Gibson’s movie “The Passion of the Christ” where the suffering is embellished to a cruel degree by the movie maker who had no problem showing us the gore, the blood, the excruciating pain, to make us wallow in suffering, and achieve the ultimate ecstasy of ultimate suffering. If this vision of Christ is th...