Objectivism

This is going to be one of my boring philosophical BS posts. I will probably restrict this one to few of the rules or ethics of an objectivist. Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice " to be concious or not". Metaphysically, the choice "to be concious or not" is the choice of life or death." Conciousness for living organism is the basic means of survival. But for man the basic means of survival is reason. Simply coz man cannot survive, as animals do, by mere guidance of perceptions. Man goes one step ahead and process of thought is doesnt remain automatic and instinctive (sometimes). Man has to initiate it, to sustain it and to hear responsibility for its results.

He has the onus of discovering, telling the truth and how to correct from his mistakes. He has to discover his rules of thought, laws of logic, to direct his thinking. Ethics is not a msytic fantasy and nor it is a social convention, subjective luxury which can be switched or discarded in any emergency (convenience sake). Ethics is an objective, metaphysical necessity of man's survival. Rationality is man's basic virtue. Suspension of such rationality or his conciousness is the refusal to know (and not ignorance). Irrationality is the rejection of man's means of survival and therefore, a commitment to a course of blind destruction which is product of anti-mind and anti-life.