About Glenn Woiceshyn

"Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today," wrote Ayn Rand, my favourite novelist and philosopher, in the Introduction to her book: The Romantic Manifesto.

This statement is profoundly true. And her philosophy of Objectivism -- of reason, rational self-interest, individualism, laissez-faire capitalism, and romanticism (in art) -- offers a future worth living in today, a future worth fighting for.

For good or for evil, ideas move the world. Unfortunately, thanks to our mainstream intellectuals, the world today is moved by evil ideas grounded in mysticism, skepticism, subjectivism, altruism, collectivism, statism and nihilism. Thankfully, Ayn Rand provided "new intellectuals" -- i.e., "anyone who chooses to think" -- with "a philosophy for living on earth," and the intellectual ammunition needed to bring about a Second Renaissance.

Before deciding to become a "new intellectual" qua writer, I trained and worked as a professional engineer and, for a decade (1986-95), ran a small, successful petroleum engineering consultant firm. I switched careers for several reasons; but the main reason is that my love for philosophy and writing grew even stronger than my love for engineering. My current life goal is to fully understand Ayn Rand's marvelous philosophy, and to fully integrate it into my life. Writing serves that end perfectly.

Between 1995 and 1997, I studied philosophy and writing, full time, at the Objectivist Graduate Center of the Ayn Rand Institute as an auditing student. I began my writing career in the Fall of 1997. (My OGC instructors included: Leonard Peikoff, Harry Binswanger, Peter Schwartz, Gary Hull and Robert Garmong. Many people have contributed to my intellectual growth, but I'm most indebted to Leonard Peikoff, Harry Binswanger and Peter Schwartz -- all great men.]

Since 1989, I have had dozens of letters-to-the-editor published in newspapers, mostly in Toronto's Globe and Mail. (My published letters represent a very small fraction of what I submitted to the media.) My present focus as a freelancer is to write articles (targeted for newspapers) applying Objectivism to current issues and newsworthy events. Since I am a new writer, and since it is very difficult to get newspapers to publish articles sympathetic to Ayn Rand and her philosophy, I still write letters-to-the-editor, which are relatively easier to get published.

If you would like to fight for the Second Renaissance, but can't afford the time, I strongly recommend giving financial support to The Ayn Rand Institute.

If you are new to Ayn Rand's philosophy, and are interested in it, then I recommend (being noncommital about what others say about it until you have at least finished) reading the following books:

1) Atlas Shrugged -- a novel by Ayn Rand (Theme: The role of the mind in human existence.)
2) The Fountainhead -- a novel by Ayn Rand (Theme: The virtue of independence.)
3) Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand -- by Leonard Peikoff

This last book presents Objectivism brilliantly, in its essentials and in hierarchical order, and provides reference to all of Ayn Rand's other works.

A key to understanding Objectivism, I found, is to understand her theory of epistemology -- the nature and means of human knowledge. (See: Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology -- by Ayn Rand.) It makes everything else crystal clear.


Cheers!

Glenn Woiceshyn

http://powerfulminds.org/

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