Randian Defiance

Ayn Rand calls for a rejection of altruist morality, and an uptick in egoism is the future. Let me quote her statement on Page x of her book, The Virtue of Selfishness: "If you wonder about the reasons behind the ugly mixture of cynicism and guilt in which most men spend their lives, these are the reasons: cynicism, because their neither practice or accept the altruist morality--guilt, because they dare not reject it." People cynically run in packs, escaping freedom and self-liberation as individuators in line with answering God's call to each of them to stand out, and be all that they can be. They, on some level, know they can be more and should be more, but they settle for being much less, group-living conformists and sell-outs. They are ready to become individuated egoists, self-engaged and finally building lives. Rand writes more: "To rebel against so devastating an evil, one has to rebel against its basic premise. to redeem both man and morality, it is the concept of 'selfishness' that one has to redeem." My response: We can only redeem men and morality by working to have all know and accept that selfishness is the virtue, not the vice.