Rand On Saving Civilzation

On Page 16 of her book, The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand raises the issue that her revolutionary code of egoist ethics is not only brand new, but also critically necessary to see adopted so humankind will have a future: "If you want to save civilization it is this premise of modern ethics--and all of ethical history--that you must challenge. To challenge the basic premise of any discipline, one must begin at the beginning. In ethics one must begin by asking: What are values? Why does man need them?" My response: In the Mavellonialist culture for high civilization and a society of individuator-anarchist supercitizens, only egoist ethics is complex enough, noble enough, and God-backed to provide people with the ethical code to guide them successfully into the merging future. Values for me can be defined as moral descriptions for motives, actions, attitudes and patterns of behavior, omitted and committed. God made the world, and it is part good and part evil. The human agent is to define, describe what is good, and then dedicate her life to expanding good, and decreasing the realm of evil. That is her job, as given her by God. This is why man needs values.