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Ken Levine Speech Ideas

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I am writing to you today with a proposition. One that does not entail wealth, opportunity, or success. No, my proposition is an ideology that may be beneficial to everyone. From the words of Ken Levine, tell me: is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? "No," says the man in Washington, "it belongs to the poor." "No," says the man in the Vatican, "it belongs to God." "No," says the man in Moscow, "it belongs to everyone." Well I along with Ken Levine object these ideas! A world where the artist is not constrained by censorship and the scientist is not chained down by petty morality, where the great are not obstructed by the small! This is a world that I believe in. I am writing to you due to a civics assignment, but there is a hint of personal fascination in which I chose to write …show more content…

Imagine a world that revel’s a man who creates his own fortune. A man that is not restricted from being as powerful as he can become. Picture a garden that you created yourself. A vast garden that you toiled over for years. Now picture a man who visits your garden and says that your garden belongs to God. He will demand that you share it with the world. Personally I would question, why? Why would I want those who did not provide work for my land to pretend that it was their bit of paradise that they had earned from God. God did not plant those seeds; I did. Mr. Huffman if you haven’t guessed quite yet I am writing about Objectivism. A political philosophy developed by Ayn Rand. Objectivism is very prevalent in my life and I feel as if it is a superior way of life. Even as part of the lower class in a system where the Übermensch rains supreme I still believe that this philosophy is the way to live. Seeing as you represent me as a California citizen I hope that you consider this political philosophy

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