We left off with the Right wing idea that creative individuals owe the community nothing. By creative here, I refer to builders—industrialists, bankers, corporate giants, what in an earlier age might have been called Robber Barons. (I said in the first post that I have a point of view and a critique, that this would not be an unbiased set of posts.) I characterized this as sophomoric. It is, in fact, best codified by the writings of Ayn Rand, who wrote some interesting novels and a great deal of philosophical defense of greed. Rand is a hero to those who wish to see themselves as above it all, apart from the masses, a singular individual with gifts and abilities far beyond those of mortal men…
Forgive me, the temptation to hyperbole was irresistible. …