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Having neither the knowledge nor the stomach to deal with the inscrutable irrationalities besieging him, the businessman usually commits a major error...he avoids thinking about the dishonest hypocrisies surrounding him. Instead, he seeks ways to mollify those menacing anticapitalistic forces by making financial amends for his lack of "social" consciousness, by making "practical" compromises, by supporting their "humanitarian" causes, or by cooperating to alleviate their "just grievances". He does not realize that his cooperation and support are providing those anticapitalistic neocheaters with the power and means to destroy him and his business. Thus, that businessman becomes increasingly bewildered as the irrational demands escalate. He often assumes unearned guilt and self-blame for not understanding or knowing how to answer the "socially concerned" news media, the "significant intellectuals", the "idealistic" youth, the "reforming" politicians, the "concerned" clergy, the "humanitarian" altruists, and all other professional mystics and neocheaters swirling about him.
As the threats and harassment mount, the businessman may seek someone who better understands the emerging "new culture" -- someone...anyone who will be more favorably received by the news media, youth, politicians, and the "socially concerned". With such a misguided view, the directors of a company become prone to select the worst possible candidate to lead their company. Instead of selecting a businessman who would protect and enhance the value of their company through implementing capitalistic principles, they seek a man who could "attune" their company to the "demands of society", a man who could communicate with "social" intellectuals and "social" leaders, a man with a "social" conscience -- a professional altruist.
Such self-defeating acts by businessmen occur through the disease of acting on the basis of what others think, feel, or wish rather than on one's own independent judgment of factual reality. Business decisions based upon what others think undermines the earning potential of companies such as Du Pont. Indeed, most research and marketing failures at Du Pont occur through those who validate decisions not on facts and independent judgment but on what others think, feel, or wish. That intellectually crippling affliction is the consequence of adopting altruistic standards.
With capitalistic standards, each person must think for one's own self to compete and succeed. Indeed, altruism would vanish in a world of value producers who think for themselves and accept the facts of reality as the only valid basis for action. ...The professional altruist negates the integrated, rational use of one's own mind. Furthermore, to sustain his bogus livelihood, the professional altruist must keep the producers from thinking for themselves so they will obey the demands of professional mystics and neocheaters.
"That question cannot be answered in technical terms alone. It depends on social and political factors as much as economics. It depends on the attitudes of people within the technical work force, and what society expects and demands of them."
-- McCoy, Speech
Mr. McCoy's statement speaks for itself. How could any technical achievement capable of generating major profits evolve from Du Pont or from any company when its chief executive subjugates technology and facts to the expectations and demands of an undefinable, nonexistent form of "superior intelligence" that Mr. McCoy calls society. The "superior intelligence" or the "higher good" is the mystical rationalization by which all professional altruists justify their destruction of values. That "superior intelligence" or "higher good" can assume any unreal, mystical form such as "a society that expects and demands". Plato, the philosophical father of altruism and mysticism,[ 20 ] first introduced this concept with his various forms of "higher realities"[ 21 ].
[ 20 ] Altruism is tied to Plato's mysticism. For, no rationality, facts, or logic can support altruism. Thus, faith is the cornerstone of the altruist's eternal promises for a better future: "...Mr. McCoy has a sublime faith in the chemical industry in this future of growing technological application to the good of society." Chemical and Engineering News
[ 21 ] There are no "higher realities", only objective reality. Thus no "higher good" exists to which man can be sacrificed because the highest good is man himself. No "higher cause" (or "society") exists to which individuals can be sacrificed, because the highest cause is the individual.
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