The Power of Objectivism: The Morality of Life, Intelligence, Greed, Selfishness, Rationality, Individuality, Integrity, Capitalism, Desire, and Freedom

This book is an essay about Objectivism, the philosophy created by philosopher Ayn Rand in her novel Atlas Shrugged. Many people have heard about Objectivism (although many others have not), and they are curious to learn more about it. The book argues that Objectivism, as a philosophy, can be reduced to an ethics, and that this ethics can be reduced to ten virtues: (1) Life, (2) Intelligence, (3) Greed, (4) Selfishness, (5) Rationality, (6) Individuality, (7) Integrity, (8) Capitalism, (9) Desire, and (10) Freedom.
This essay shows how Objectivism arrives at those virtues, why Objectivism claims that this system of ethics is objective knowledge and not mere subjective opinion, and it explains the many ways in which Objectivism can help you, by empowering you to make better choices. Here you will learn about all the ways in which Objectivism is different from every other philosophy, from its moral defense of capitalism, to its presentation of a system of ethics that is based on virtues and values in the physical world, unlike every other system of ethics, because all other ethics are either based on the spiritual world (such as every religion) or are based on the physical world but are not based on virtues and values (such as nihilism, pragmatism and utilitarianism). This essay dives deeply into the Randian theory of "rational selfishness," and explores Rand's rejection of altruism and her embrace of selfishness as ethical and moral, and the book tells you that "rational selfishness" is not greed and selfishness as it is traditionally viewed, but is a new concept of morality that simply means you should act to achieve a happy life for yourself, and use reason to achieve your goals.
This book gives a bold, daring new answer to an important question: What is Objectivism? Read this book and you may find that intellectual surprises, edification, and emendation about the philosophy of Objectivism are waiting for you.

Russell Hasan was born the son of a white Jewish mother and a dark-skinned Muslim father—and that isn't the strangest thing about him. His father had ties to the mafia—nope, not the weirdest thing about him. He thought he was a gay man for many years before realizing he is agender asexual—relatively normal compared to what truly makes him strange. Do you want to know what the weirdest, strangest thing about Russell is?
He's a WRITER.
Yes, that's right. He writes. Why? How? Why would he want to do that to himself? How could he allow this to happen to himself? He is still trying to figure that one out. Therapy can cure lots of things and alcohol and drugs can cure other things, but the only cure for being a writer is to write, so he writes. He's not into BDSM, yet for some reason he has chosen to punish himself by having a passion for writing and a need to write. Despite having made the huge mistake of choosing to be a writer, his books have sold over 10,000 copies, so perhaps it was not the worst mistake he ever made after all. He does not have one particular bestseller but has instead spread those 10,000 sales across many books he wrote. His magical journey of self-torture begins when he has the idea for a new book, and then continues when he wakes up at 6am to write from 6am to 8am before work every day (he has a day job—he's not insane! His day job is being a lawyer, the most boring, evil job in the world, by the way), and, after many cups of Starbucks matcha tea and Coca Cola (never Pepsi—yuck!) he somehow puts words onto a page. He has written 30 books, both nonfiction and fiction, but, as something of a twist on the traditional successful indie author model, he is known more for his indie nonfiction, not his fiction. But he does write fiction. Some of his fiction is good too, probably, he hopes.