When Ayn Rand passed away in 1982, she witnessed two beginnings. One was the beginning of Soviet Union and Communism end, the other was the beginning of Islamic movements rise around the world. While “social code of ethics” was fading, “mystic code of ethics” was gaining momentum all around the world.
As she mentioned again and again, human being needs an objective and tangible final goal for this world and tries to reach it with her/his own objective values. Social theory of ethics failure was easy to measure because it’s final goal; better life for everyone in its society, was defined for this world and it failed miserably. What about mystic theory of ethics? They suffer and fail even more, but because their final goal is not for this world and not measurable based on objective measures they keep going strong. Until we try to change the culture and individual knowledge in these societies, there is no hope for them to wake up.
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