To the cult of Ayn Rand….

One of many rants that’s been brewing…

This one goes out to all Libertarian, conservative, ‘I built this’ selfish asses.

Get over yourself.

You may have rearranged some stuff, but you didn’t really build shit.

Did you get up at dawn one morning figure out how to make fire, out of nothing and keep it going?  While you were at it you slapped together a little thing called the wheel, then you got the whole farming, domestication of live stock, food chain thing up and running in time to have orange juice with the morning bacon and eggs.

After breakfast I suppose you knocked off smelting, blacksmithing, concrete, power, lights, etc, etc…

REALLY?

Was watching ‘The Story of an Animated Drawing’ the other night, Walt Disney explaining the history of art in a nutshell.  He goes all the way to back to the cave painting of Lascaux.  (And now, he’d have to go farther in both time and location.)  Cuz, without those crude paintings on the walls of caves there is no animated drawing.

The same is true for all that we have today.  Without the millions of people that have walked this earth before us, we have NOTHING.

The whole of your daily reality is a cooperative experiment that was started thousands of years ago.  Without that cooperation, we’d still be scurrying through the tall grass and getting ate by everything around.

Even if you are totally off the grid and making everything for yourself, you owe the knowledge to someone who came before you.  You didn’t do the trial and error experimentation to figure out which plants are edible.  You learned, at least that, from someone else.

YOU DIDN’T TAKE THE EMBERS FROM A LIGHTENING STRUCK TREE AND MAKE THE FIRST FIRE.

YOU DIDN’T FIGURE OUT HOW TO COMBINE THE INGREDIENTS TO MAKE THE FIRST LOAF OF BREAD.

YOU DIDN’T INVENT THE WHEEL!!

Even if you just want to consider the here and now, you didn’t do it all by yourself.  Whatever you built is connected to PUBLIC services, at the very least roads, which generations of American taxpayers paid for.

And here we should all take a moment to remember that many, many large corporations, which the Libertarians champion and support, don't pay taxes

Also, consider, whatever your goods or services might be, if someone doesn’t COOPERATE and buy what yer selling, you don’t make any money.

In light of the fact that cooperation is vital to your health and well being, don’t you think you should grow up, grow a conscious, and join the human race?

Oh yeah, without the millions of people that came before her, Ayn Rand couldn't have written her crap.