The first of several Ayn Rand/Anthem/Objectivism posts

I believe that the Ayn Rand quote is very true. That all of our, “our” meaning people in society, ambitions, desires, dreams, and wishes are “motivated by other men”. Most people are in complete denial that they don’t do what they want. The majority of people only do things that will make it easier to get through the day. No one knows what they truly want. The things that people say they want are merely what society tells them. People say that they want things like a good job that pays a large amount of money. But the question they never seem to ask is “why”? Why do they want these things, why do they believe that these things will make them happy?

                People work every day towards the idea of contentment. The idea of fewer worries, and idea that they perceive to be happiness. I hate the idea of being “content”. It sounds to me like settling. As if people just decided that this was the best they could do and then gave up on doing anything else.  They say that ignorance is bliss, but it is a very ignorant form of bliss. It is not true happiness. It is an ignorance that not only involves the denial of things you should be worried about but also a denial of your true self, of your own individual beliefs.