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Wed Aug 15, 2012, 11:20 AM Aug 2012

George Monbiot - A Manifesto for Psychopaths

http://www.monbiot.com/2012/03/05/a-manifesto-for-psychopaths/

It has a fair claim to be the ugliest philosophy the post-war world has produced. Selfishness, it contends, is good, altruism evil, empathy and compassion are irrational and destructive. The poor deserve to die; the rich deserve unmediated power. It has already been tested, and has failed spectacularly and catastrophically. Yet the belief system constructed by Ayn Rand, who died 30 years ago today, has never been more popular or influential.
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