The New Corgiguy Blog

Corgiguy, familiar to readers of this blog from his stimulating observations here, has set up his own Corgiguy Blog, and it was not what we expected. In fact, we are very gratified and impressed by his efforts. He is a lover of poetry and philosophy and his blog is thoroughly soaked in culture. For some of you this will sound an alarm and you will proceed no further. For the rest, it will be an invitation to refresh your souls with the eternal verities of life. I recommend the blog to you as far as the poetry and philosophy are concerned. His views on Cuba I do not necessarily endorse. I have left some comments there. This is the latest:

The exaltation of the individual and his transformative power over society is hardly anything new, and Nietzsche, of course, did it a lot better than Rand. Rand's only contribution to this paradigm was to focus that power on selfish and material objects, which makes her philosophy even more unpalatable than Nietzsche's. An individual need not only pursue his own interests. In fact, he will be nothing more than a grasping and grabbing automaton unless he understands that what benefits society also benefits him and that it is in his own personal interest to contribute to the betterment of society. Ayn Rand, who, to her credit, was an arch-enemy of Communism, took away the wrong lesson from it. Anti-Communists cannot and must not transform ourselves into what Communists say we are: we cannot and must not let them define us. Altruism, which Communists do not practice except in theory, is not something that should be assigned to them by our rejection of it in favor of egoism, as Rand recommends. Her toxic "cure" would poison society as surely as collectivism.

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