Where is the world going?

The poison of "social aims" keeps spreading.

In the foreword to the 2nd edition of Anthem, Ayn Rand wrote:

“Social gains,” “social aims,” “social objectives” have become the daily bromides of our language. The necessity of a social justification for all activities and all existence is now taken for granted. There is no proposal outrageous enough but what its author can get a respectful and approbation if he claims that in some undefined way it is for “the common good.”

That was 1946. Has it gotten better? No. I know about the hi-tech sphere, the least regulated enterprise. (Imagine what happens in regulated markets.) No matter how good of a developer you are, if you can’t pass the “social” questions of HR, you won’t get a job. Even though “DEI” is officially over, tech job application forms still ask you about your race. This blatant racism is justified because it is for a “social good.”

She continues:

Some might think—though I don’t—that nine years ago there was some excuse for men not to see the direction in which the world was going. Today, the evidence is so blatant that no excuse can be claimed by anyone any longer. Those who refuse to see it now are neither blind nor innocent.

So what can one do? There’s nowhere to run, it’s the same everywhere. Yet, there is something one can do: go “anthem.” That is, exit the current almost-dystopian society and start a new one, just like Prometheus, the hero in Ayn Rand’s novelette. Indeed, this is the goal of the “Go Anthem” project — to start a new sovereign state.

But how can one exit the collectivist society, if there’s no unclaimed land? There never is, yet new countries keep appearing. For instance, dozens new countries were created in the last 100 years. These geopolitical processes can be taken advantage of, and you can help.

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