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Here is Zotten’s little autobiography, it’s quite interesting. I wonder what’s “beyond” being an Objectivist? (not sure what “objectivist” is, someone who looks at other people like Objects?) Thinks if everyone was one of these, there would be a “social paradise”. Pretty funny.

I’m a classical liberal, libertarian, Objectivist, and beyond. I’m also an intellectually fearless free-thinker and truth-seeker. I believe in aiming at individual happiness and personal greatness above all else. I also think life is a wonderous gift to be Enjoyed and Celebrated at all times! :-)

My fundamental viewpoint about pretty much everything can be described as “pure liberalism.” This philosophy is based upon the best and truest of the traditional liberal cultures of Greece, Rome, Europe, and America (all sadly defunct). It’s also based upon the best and truest of the avant-garde theories of Austrian economics, libertarian politics, and Objectivist philosophy.

This New Liberalism, as I teach it, is the general philosophy, or the family of philosophies, which is essentially based upon:

(1) the epistemology of reason, rationality, logic, and science;

(2) the metaphysics of physicality, mathematics, physics, mechanics, materialism, and empiricism;

(3) the personal ethics of individualism, self-interest, and private happiness;

(4) the social ethics of non-tyranny, non-criminality, honesty, compassion, comradship, and social utopia;

(5) the domestic politics of: freedom, justice, and individual rights; of life, liberty, property, and privacy; of security, safety, free will, and persuit of happiness;

(6) the foreign policy of: libertarianism, free exchange, minimal aid, isolationism, non-interference and yet rescue and liberation, peace and yet justice; of non-appeasement, non-collaboration, non-diplomatic recognition, and non-moral sanction of foreign tyranny;

(7) the economics of capitalism, free enterprise, free trade, and laissez-faire;

(8) the sociology of the brotherhood of man, empathy, live-and-let-live, non-fraud, and frank directness;

(9) the esthetics of vivacity, dynamism, and heroism;

(10) the spirituality of the sublime, transcendent, infinite, and great.

Understanding and practicing these liberal values is the key to social paradise and personal joy — to the good life for all.

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