A Rand Occasion

Front Page with Allen Barton at pjtv talks with Yaron Brook of The Ayn Rand Center and Terry Jones of Investors Business Daily about Thanksgiving as it might be seen from the perspectives of Ayn Rand, the Pilgrims, and today's consumers.

A Rand Occasion: On Thanksgiving & Black Friday, Be Thankful For the Producers is a power packed 12 minute video from PJTV, that is enlighterning and educating in the discussion of a) The meaning of thanksgiving, b) Should Selfishness be celebrated c)Black Friday.

As you become "consumers"(!) and shop till you drop this Black Friday,



I highly recommend that you spare a few minutes over this weekend to watch this video.

I have taken the liberty of copying a comment posted at PJTV, capturing quite well the message to take away from the discussion.

It's so refreshing to have reinforced the idea that consumer choice is a bounty and blessing we should enjoy and celebrate with participation, as our budgets allow. Is everything in the market place necessary and terrific? Gosh no, but having the choice to decide what is right for us is what the free market is all about.

The telling of the real story of the first Thanksgiving needs to be told and heard a bunch more-Bottom Line: capitalism saved them from their socialist ways and death. Proving the point that responsible selfishness is a positive force.(bold added)

Separation of Education and State

A new website “PRINCIPLES OF A FREE SOCIETY” has been launched by the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights.
The website states:

A free society requires a limited government that enacts and enforces objective laws for the sole purpose of protecting individual rights.

This, according to me, is the fundamental principle for a peaceful social co-existence among men.

If one were to follow, understand, apply and uphold this principle of individual rights with consistency to get an answer to what the role of the government should be in any given issue or policy matter, it would lead one to the formation of a free, just, peaceful, prosperous society based on rational principles of civilized society.

Based on a derivation from the fundamental principle of individual rights, the website further defines,

A free society is one where the government does not interfere (by penalty or reward) in thought, production or trade.

While most people have heard of separation of church and state achieved by western civilization as one of the great achievements that has enabled mankind’s progress to a more peaceful co-existence in society, few have grasped the underlying principle that is the exact same in a separation of science and state, economics and state and importantly to readers here to understand is the separation of education and state in every respect.

The Separation of Education and State section of the website has a lot of material –audio, video and writings –from Ayn Rand and several Obectivists, that can help you get familiar with the issues that need to be addressed in a free society pertaining to education.

Check out the website and avail the treasure trove of material to get yourself educated on the subject of education.