I agree that the will is the most important factor in human development. I guess this makes me a philosophical idealist as opposed to a materialist. This was an important distinction to Marx. However when it comes to society, the social contract and agreements, I find Ayn Rand, Objectivism( as I understand it) and by extension Libertarianism lacking.....lacking compassion and an understanding that everybody isn't ready to pull themselves up by the bootstraps and that society as a whole is affected, indeed pulled down by the presence of a large underclass. I have yet to hear an effective solution to the homelessness and systemic poverty we face in this country today from this camp, this school of thought.

RS at the SCPL.