Ayn Rand on Changing Culture in the Direction of Reason and Intellect

In this short clip from a longer interview, Ayn Rand describes the type of individual who can move modern culture in the direction of reason and the intellect. See the whole interview here. Source: Ayn Rand Institute YouTube channel.

Transcript:

What's needed today, what I call the “new intellectual,” would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning: any man or woman who knows that man’s life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, whims, or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and does not want to give in to today's cult of despair, cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the rule of the collectivist brutes.