I am sorry...

(Apologize)



It is sad to suddenly discover that I was somewhat stupid most of my life.
Almos all my existence I was close to Objectivism in some basic vital attitudes and thoughts, specially those concerning to Metaphysics (Objective Reality) and Epistemology (Reason), but when it came to Ethics and Politics my mind was a strange mixture that I now regret and even when it could be quite worthless I have to confess my sin: I was more close to the "left wing" in most political and ethical points of view when I was young and even later. I have to say however in my defense that they were inherited ideas and concepts from my family and not from my own intellectual harvest, which doesn't necessarily redeem me from my responsibility anyway.

Over the time I questioned those ideas more and more and my points of view were gradually moving to a more realistic perspective, as long as I confronted myself with questions like: Why being rich "has" to be bad? Why socialist countries were falling one after other? Why the masses "have" to be always right? Where come the wealth from? How I would like to live? Who am I in reality and what I want as values?

So for all that I did and said wrong before, for al the ideas I repeated without deeper researching or getting more first-hand information, for all the people I despised and blamed, for all the thing I "thought" without really thinking: I apologize

But then some day, some time ago, it came to my hands a book from Ayn Rand (Thanks to my friend Daniel for this) and since then I finally found myself reflected in a coherent philosophy, my soul found a home.

But a question still arises inside me:
If I am now Objectivist, but I come from a family (and a country) very far from this philosophy, if I am a typical product of a "mixed" quite socialized economy and I have to be grateful to the public education and health systems of my country without which my middle-low class family probably couldn't have had the possibility to afford my education when I was a child...
What about totally laissez-faire capitalism as the ideal political system for a country? It would have been possible for "me" to exist in such a context? If I deny my roots and totally support Ayn Rand's thought in this particular matter (even when she herself said that it has not been yet fully implemented in any country) Would I be in contradiction with the basic principle of Objectivism that is defending my own personal survival as living organism? Including of course my mind?

I will analyze this in my next post about "Politics: Capitalism" the last remaining of the four basic principles of Objectivism stated by Rand "while standing on one foot"
Stay in tune! :-)