"On a reach in a following sea". In ten years I'll be living this permanently. To live without safety nets is virtuous....and dangerous. Onward, "by" the Southern Cross.
Here's another about learning.....Pete Mayer is a Minnesota raised talent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbQtgbKc...

Thanks. Haven't heard that in a very long tong time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztVaqZaj...

I've always loved "The Southern Cross."

Exactly! You remember well enough. Crosby Stills & Graham Nash

That's from a song I once heard. Can't quite put my finger on it.

Teach.....your children well....

I know you'll enjoy! Enthusiasm is in your writing. The first time I read The Objectivists Ethics was a little over two years ago. This essay is "the simplicity beyond complexity" of We the Living, Anthem, the Fountainhead and AS combined. I have been studiously reassessing my business and personal relations since reading. Enjoy!

Thanks for all the responses, and it's great to see that you support the first few comments which made me decide, I was obviously not going to regret any of the books, but it's much better to get your opinions first when it comes to order.

This was the first reply I read and I went for it immediatly, I didn't reply faster because of how busy I was with christmas and all of that! But thanks! The book has been ordered and should arrive soon!

Virtue first, but make "Capitalism" an immediate goal.

I agree - Virtue first.

BINGO! One is a philosophical perspective, and the other a view of how selfishness functions for positive gain.

Virtue; it's basic to understanding Objectivist ethics.

I was teaching selfishness yesterday at a Christmas present unwrapping party..
Without getting into all the court house complications, my stepson (not to be confused with my son but both are "sons") adopted one of his younger female cousins due to an aunt being a mental case. His adopted daughter is older than his two little sons.
A set of,coloring pencils was one of the gifts I gave the girl. I advised that she guard those pencils dearly after she withdrew the set from the grip of a younger brother.
I told her of a long-remembered Christmas gift of a coloring book and how I looked forward to coloring a drawing made of ducks flying over a pond.
To this day I recall how irate I felt when I found that a little brother had colored all those ducks purple.
"You want your stuff. Protect your stuff," I told her.

get both so you can read one after the other. virtue probably first.

Virtue

The Virtue of Selfishness. Contained is "The Objectivists Ethics".....foundational