“The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.”
“Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature.”
“We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic.”
“Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.”
“Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.”