The country is splitting into dozens of blind, deaf, but screaming camps, each drawn together not by loyalty to an idea, but by the accident of race, age, sex, religious creed, or the frantic whim of a given moment—not by values held in common, but by a common hatred of some other group....

The country is divided into dozens of camps blind, deaf, but screaming, not all following a unified idea, randomly assigned to race, age, gender, religion or anger. No shared values, no general hatred towards other groups...
“When men abandon principle (that is, their conceptual skills), there are two main consequences: individually, an inability to project into the future; The inability to communicate socially ... the direct cause of the problems of narrow mindset that develop today; He could no longer see; The only reaction he could understand was to impose his demands on others.

"What [people] need most is guidance, reassurance, inspiration of faith, and adherence to basic principles ... all they will achieve is the ability to understand, reason, judge, and" communicate with one another. "They will lose the feeling of being plunged into a helpless mist of confusion."

~ Ayn Rand, from his 1971 article " Reliability + Bias ".

[ Ion Rand Institute Cap Annual Report ]

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