I Don't Put Charity Before Achievement

Yet somehow I manage to be charitable with my time and my income. How can that be?

"Men have been taught that the highest virtue is not to achieve, but to give. Yet one cannot give that which has not been created. Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement."

Ayn Rand

In my periodic readings of such publications as the New York Times, and The New Yorker, Ms. Rand is portrayed as a writer of radical fiction. Fiction yes, radical absolutely not, Ayn Rand lived in the early Soviet Union and understood to progression of Socialism. In personal discussions on the topic, have have heard people who denounce Ayn Rand to later admit they have not read Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead or Anthem. This denunciation is often mimicry of Dimocratic rhetoric aimed at circumventing undeniable logic. I will say again, liberal mindset comes from deep seated self-loathing.