People

 

People are pathetic. Such liars and cowards. Such failures and losers. Such monsters and insects. Such absolute vermin.

Even mankind at its best isn't very impressive. Think of the Greeks.

Anaxagoras never admitted the obvious and crucial truth – that there's no such thing as "god". Socrates didn’t either. Nor did Aristotle.

And what did these powerful and wide-ranging intellectuals get for their likely efforts to give humanity hope? How did their cowardly evasions and slimy lies profit them? Anaxagoras was driven into exile. Socrates was executed. Aristotle fled into exile, lest he be executed too.

And how did this enormous fraud benefit the world? It didn’t. It made pretty much everyone smaller and weaker. It slowed progress and detoured the ascent of man.

Even at the end of their lives, when they had almost nothing left to lose, Anaxagoras, Socrates, and Aristotle evidently still didn't tell the truth. They didn't speak it aloud, nor put it in writing, nor arrange for it to be publicized after their deaths.

And think of the geniuses and heroes of the Enlightenment, two millennia later.

Bacon, Locke, and Smith were similar liars and cowards. So too Johnson, Burke, Voltaire, Diderot, Jefferson, and Madison. Even Darwin and Einstein.

But what of the Objectivists, the leading liberal philosophers of today?

Peikoff, Binswanger, Schwartz, and Brook are all cultists – advocates and practitioners of religiosity. As for their rivals – Kelley, Hicks, Salsman, and Tracinski – they militantly refuse to damn or fight these demons and destroyers. Rather than defeating the illiberals, they claim to "have better things to do."

People are pathetic. Such liars and cowards. Such failures and losers. Such monsters and insects. Such absolute vermin.