Global Balkanization (MP3 download) Education

Global Balkanization (MP3 download) EducationBy Ayn Rand In this 1977 lecture delivered at Bostons Ford Hall Forum, Ayn Rand begins by asking: Have you ever wondered about the process of the collapse of a civilization? Speaking about what she sees as the beginning of the end of Western civilization, Rand explains the dangers of the global cultural trend of grouping people together not by their achievements but by their race, language or religion. Drawing her title from the Balkan Peninsula,

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provides lucid responses to the "politically correct" primitivists who condemn Columbus for having brought civilization to the Western hemisphere

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Ayn Rand not only defended rational selfishness and rejected the ethics of sacrifice

It proclaims the same explosive philosophy

he described in detail what he claimed is the second best city—one ruled not by philosophers but by laws

The result of these influences has been the gradual destruction of the true source of self-esteem - man's confidence in his own mind

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Even this brief sampling shows the book's breadth of coverage

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