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Thank the old gods and the new for those (like Rachmaninoff) who were driven to find the best within themselves, despite the forces of mediocrity, superstition, ignorance and idiocy they too were forced to suffer. Looking back now I despise those teachers, preachers, parents and community busybodies who not only lacked the ambition to discover the importance they inherited as custodians and teachers of the heroes they were meant to culture, but instead whose abdication and cowardice managed to destroy the potential greatness so many would have found in themselves had someone just showed them what was possible. Ayn Rand said it better than anyone else I have found thus far. In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that mans proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, its yours. But to win it requires your total dedication and a total break with the world of your past, with the doctrine that man is a sacrificial animal who exists for the pleasure of others. Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth. youtu.be/vpaPWuDQUcc

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