The Moratorium on Brains (MP3 download) Leonard Peikoff

The Moratorium on Brains (MP3 download) Leonard PeikoffBy Ayn Rand In this 1971 lecture delivered at Bostons Ford Hall Forum, Ayn Rand examines President Nixons imposition of a nationwide wage and price freeze aimed at curbing rapid inflation. Drawing her title from a chapter in Atlas Shrugged, Rand begins with a quotation from one of her novels villains: Hell, what it comes down to is that we can manage to exist as and where we are, but we cant afford to move! So weve got to stand still. If one knows the

In its place are a set of philosophic ideas that are hostile to individual freedom

fairy tales

the verifiability theory

- From Of Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe

The perceptual level of awareness

Part One: Philosophy

also examine the Founders' grasp of what rights were

planted gloves and arguments from emotion -- and finds the process deficient from a philosophical point of view

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Peikoff concludes that government has grown beyond its original scope because of the underlying philosophy that dominates Western culture

including its origins in primitive myths