Wales sounding like an Altruist
This entry was posted on 10-03-2006 and is filed under uncategorized.
"Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has described Wikipedia as "an effort to create and distribute a multilingual free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language."" - Cindy Long, NEA Today
The question Ayn Rand might ask Jimmy Wales is why? Such a large undertaking, consuming years of Mr. Wales life, is this what he supposed to be doing? I guess I look at the situation and assume Wales still values what Rand said. That his past ties to the Objectivists was time well spent.
The above quote seems so altruistic as to remind us of a contestant in the Miss America Pageant. Rand in my opinion really gave the altruists both barrels. Her thinking was often binary. Good or bad, yes or no. Simplified it was the selfists (SELF ISTS) versus the altruists, with the selfists being the Objectivists.
Rand felt that the altruists were bad, but now I am reading, correctly or not, Jimmy Wales sounding like an altruist.
(Selfist being the opposite of an Altruist. You might be surprised that some of us don't mind being called selfists, or even selfish. Some believe the most important goal in life is to help the poor. I don't.)
