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"...Altered is Zarathustra; a child hath Zarathustra become; an awakened one is Zarathustra: what wilt thou do in the land of the sleepers? As in the sea hast thou lived in solitude, and it hath borne thee up. Alas, wilt thou now go ashore? Alas, wilt thou again drag thy body thyself?" Zarathustra answered: "I love mankind." -Thus Spoke Zarathustra Nietzsche Salutations and good day to you all. It is within my best hopes that you are all in good times, no, the best of times! Firstly, I would like to introduce myself to this auditorium of ideas and the audience who so graciously fills it. Who am I? It depends upon whose eyes this reaches. To some I am only a comrade, another on equal footing, whose eyes meet theirs without stooping or raising myself up. To others, I stand hand and shoulders above, and my height compared to theirs is only matched by their vehemence towards me. To others, I am but a block of clay, yet to find definition in their eyes, a person whom they must stoop to talk to. What is my purpose? Well, what other purpose could be so noble and still novel as to share an opinion, an opinion that is not often represented in the common discourse. I give to you, my oh too gracious reader, the gift of objectivism, Bernays propaganda theory, skepticism, egoism, soft hedonism, and everything that follows thus. Ha! But all of this pomp and circumstance means nothing truly, does it not? The driving locomotion behind your subconscious demands a reason for you to be here. I propose that there is no reason, at least not a reason . It can only be the selfish desire to read my ravings, to indulge yourself upon the ideas that spiral forth from the mouth of the socially departed, that keep your mind still in connection with my words. If this bombast of pride and valour has not sent you off, then may I once again offer a hand in welcome to you, and into the Ed Bernays Opinion...