I do have an opinion about what it means to be an objectivist, and I'll talk about why I'm even uncomfortable about that. And we can talk about what it means to live that as part of what we're going to talk about today. So this is not what I typically talk about, although it's always in my talks. It's everywhere. Every one of these shows has a little bit of this. The first one is objectivism, because I think it's important. Objectivism is the philosophy of Ayn Rand. There's a lot of confusion out there. Objectivism is not the truth. Objectivism is not the latest and greatest word on ideas inspired by Ayn Rand. Objectivism is not everything that is connected to Ayn Rand's ideas, Ayn Rand's philosophy. Objective is not my opinions about Ayn Rand, or my innovations about Ayn Rand, true or false. Objectivism is what Ayn Rand wrote. It's closed in that sense. It's a finite system of knowledge. And you can include, together with Ayn Rand, what Ayn Rand wrote, you can include some of the Leonard's material, Leonard Peacock's material, but even Leonard would acknowledge that not all of it. So primarily, we're talking about Opa, Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, and as being part of the corpus that is Objectivism. It's a philosophy that Ayn Rand articulated. And whether it's true or not, you have to discover. You shouldn't enter the project convinced that she's right. You can't exit just with one of her books convinced that she's right as ... I mean, you might be ... think that she's right, but to be convinced, it takes a long time. Takes a lot of work. It's philosophy. It's not just pop, fill in the blank. It's real philosophy. So Ayn Rand's ideas of what she wrote, and just to preempt whatever questions, I mean, she might have been wrong. Nobody who is an Objectivist is going to argue that everything she said has to be true or always be true is like the Bible written in stone ... Well, the Bible is not written in stone, but the Ten Commandments are written in stone and always true and always valid. Nobody can ever question them. That's just not true or philosophy. New knowledge can be discovered. New ideas can come about. That turned out to be true. That can expand on, innovate, maybe even show something about some aspect of Ayn Rand's philosophy as untrue. But I would say somebody who is an Objectivist. Somebody is an Objectivist.  Somebody who has validated Ayn Rand's philosophy for himself that to him, her ideas are true. That he has not accepted it on faith or dogma, but has done it based on first-handed experience with the ideas, with the world, with reality, tested them, evaluated them, integrated them, judged them, and come to the conclusion that are basic ideas and not every idea, not everything she wrote, but that the basic ideas, the basic framework of the philosophy, the basic ideas within the philosophy are true, but that's not enough. The fact that acknowledging the truth is not enough. What really it means is integrating into your life and living it. Now what does that mean? First and foremost it means, more than anything it means, taking her morality seriously, taking her ethics seriously, taking it every thing about morality seriously.  And of course that implies a certain approach to epistemology, but it doesn't mean you have to study epistemology and no epistemology, it just means the commitment to using reason, which is the ethics. So really it's about applying the ideas in your life, which primarily means applying them in your ethics, and that will shape your political views, but that's not the essential.  So being an objectivist means being committed to these ideas in your life, in how you live. Not just espousing them, not advocating for them, not arguing them, not being politically active around them, but taking the ethics, taking the morality and applying it to your life, not because it's dogma, not because you've accepted our faith, but because you are convinced, you have been convinced. And maybe you were convinced even before implicitly, but now you've made it explicit.  That is first and foremost to me, for me, what it would mean, what it means to be an objectivist. And indeed, I don't really care about whether people call themselves objectivists or not. What I care about is how people live, what kind of life they live, what kind of values they pursue, what kind of virtues they exhibit. To me what matters and what should matter to you is to live a good life, is to pursue happiness rationally. And if you do that, these are the values and virtues that you need to live by. And then the extent to which you then want to shape the world around you to make it possible for you to live the happiest life you can, how much you want to get involved, how much you want to think and engage in activism or politics or everything, that is to some extent optional. But the primary, the focus needs to be on understanding what these ideas have to do with your life and your happiness and how to live them, how to apply them, and what context. And consistently. But again, all of that needs to be done not because seven commandments, sorry, seven virtues are written in a book, but because you understand and you have internalized why honesty is necessary for happiness, why productiveness is necessary for flourishing, why independence. You cannot live successfully. You cannot survive as a human being unless you're independent. And each one of those requires real work. And I want to encourage you guys to do the work. Your happiness in my view depends on it. And doing the work does not mean listening to my podcast.  Please continue. And I think it contributes a lot. The work means a few things. First, it means studying the ideas. Understanding what you're getting into, if you find these ideas interesting, and if you find them intriguing, if you're inspired by Atlas Shrugged, if you're inspired by heroes, if you're inspired by what you've read by Ayn Rand, then you need to do the work to figure out how to apply these ideas to your own life. To understand what the morality actually means and how to do it. And again, in a first-handed way, and the work is not just a read. The work is to think. And thinking means integrating, connecting it to your own experiences, to your own observations, to looking around and seeing what's going on in the world, to what you know about history. And if you don't know a lot of history, study more history. I mean, that's just good advice for human beings generally. We need to know more about the past in order to understand the present and to understand how the future is going to evolve. To learn, study, think, integrate, observe, integrate, connect. And look, if you're going to study, then you should study primarily from the source. Start with Ayn Rand.  If you're serious about this, there's nothing to replicate the experience of reading Rand, reading the virtue of selfishness, the various essays, reading her other essay books. And then, you know, at the same time or after, sequentially, however you want to do it, read objectives of the philosophy of Ayn Rand by Lena Peacock because it integrates it all. It shows you the complete picture of what the philosophy looks like, how it's connected, what the hierarchy is. Again, not because you need to know that dogma, but because it is essential to know that at least in principle, not necessarily in detail, to be able to integrate the moral ideas into your life. You have to know something more about the epistemology and how the epistemology is connected to the ethics and know something about the nature of man. And again, no, you don't have to know it to the point where you have to teach it. Those of us who teach it need to know it to that level, and it's hard. But you need to know it enough so that you can use it. Think of a philosophy as something you should be using. Ethics is a guide, it's a tool, it's a map. It's a map to living your life. It's a map that in some sense you got from somebody else. But unless you color in the lines, unless you go over those lines and make them sharper, unless you understand every turn and every twist, the map is not going to be useful because it fades and it goes away unless you constantly recreate it. And that's the integrating, that's making the philosophy yours. So study, like any other field, you want to learn math, you have to study math, you want to learn physics, you have to go and read books on physics and take classes in physics. You want to study objectivism, read objectivism. There's nothing that replaces reading, go take classes in objectivism. The only place to take classes in objectivism is at the Einman Institute, or from Leonard Peacock in some of these old courses. But take it seriously. Take the idea seriously and see, even on the questions I see in the super chat, it's all about politics, screw politics.  I mean it will, but it's not, you don't have any control over it. So many people live unhappy lives, half fulfilled lives, half wasted lives, not because of Donald Trump or Nancy Pelosi or Hillary Clinton, but because of the ideas that they have, because of the choices they make about the life that they have chosen by default or purposefully to live. So the first focus you should have when you're coming to these ideas on is on you, on your living. When I read Atlas Shrugged for the first time, I was 16, the thing that struck me, I mean it certainly struck me that socialism was wrong and capitalism was right, that seemed kind of straightforward once I read Atlas Shrugged. But the thing that really changed my life, the thing that really brought meaning to my life and changed the whole projection of my life was not that. It was the realization that the moral purpose of my life was happiness, my happiness. It was the rejection of altruism, but it wasn't just the negation, it was the positive. That is the positive of living a good life and getting a clue. And the first time I read Atlas Shrugged all I had was a clue, kind of a hazy clue that that involved a whole ethical approach and a whole way to viewing the world and a whole, and I didn't know when I finished Atlas Shrugged how much I didn't know, how much I was still ignorant, to what extent I was still ignorant of the philosophy, but at least I understood that this meant I have to take my life seriously. That's the thing I got from Iron Man.  It's much harder to argue ethics, certainly for me impossible to argue epistemology. I wouldn't know where to start. But certainly then I didn't know and I wouldn't have known then how to argue ethics. But it's the ethics that matters. And the politics doesn't matter, if you get tomorrow, if we get the best imaginable president, we get an objective as president.  And you have not integrated egos into your life and you are not pursuing life enhancing values with passion and with focus. Then what difference does it make? Difference does it make who is, who's in power? You'll still be miserable. You'll still have a failed life. You still won't be successful. So anybody views, just commenting to a comment on the chat. If you have used a president as your master, you've got a perverted sense of your own life and perverted sense of politics. So you can imagine the best political system in the world. You can imagine the best culture in the world. And if you are not taking your life seriously, if you are not pursuing the right values, if you're not have a good understanding of what virtues, what actions you should take, and what differences it make, what differences politics make.  And that's what it's about. It's not about the world. It's about you. So to me to take objectivism seriously is to take your own life seriously, to take your own happiness seriously, and therefore to devote your life, well, devote a portion of your life to studying these ideas, integrating them. And to the extent that it's not working, somebody says, what if you fail? What if? Well, there are two possibilities that you fail. One is that the ideas are bad or wrong. They just don't work because you're not achieving happiness. You're not achieving your own well-being. That's possible. I don't think that's right. They haven't failed for me, but yep, maybe I'm wrong. The other possibility is that you're not applying them right. The other possibility is there's a misunderstanding, a misintegration. Maybe there's a psychological issue. So there are a lot of issues that could prevent you applying these ideas as best that you can and still not getting the result that you want. But again, that's the work that you need to do of choosing your values, making sure that they are life enhancing values, making sure that they are the right values, making sure that they're in the right order of priority, and then pursuing them and achieving and gaining the rewards from that achievement. And if it's not working, fixing whatever is not working, fixing it. So the whole point is to live the best life that you can, constantly building yourself and how do you build yourself?  You build yourself by the purposes that you choose. That is who you are. You are your values. Your soul is the choices that you make. And your goal in life is to build a beautiful soul, a beautiful life, a happy life. So to me, that's much more important than what you call yourself. To me, that's what Objectivism should mean to every one of us. This idea that life is finite, every second you never get back, you got to live to the max and hear the tools, hear the tools that some genius has provided us that I can use if I understand them, if I integrate them properly. So and by the way, it's not easy, it's hard, and it takes time. And I know lots of people, hundreds of people, thousands of people who give up, who give up because it doesn't seem to work, because it takes time, it takes effort, and it takes real effort to shake kind of the altruistic premises that we all have. We're all raised in a particular culture and we're not independent on that culture. And you can't shake off all the premises you accepted as a kid and growing up and all the stuff that happened to you. You can't just shake that off all at once. It takes time and some people just give up. They don't attain the happiness immediately. They don't attend the expected results immediately. It's too challenging. It's too much conflict. It puts them up against the culture, puts them up against their friends, it puts them up against their family, and they walk away. And that's tragic for all of us. Fewer allies, fewer happy people in the world, fewer flourishing individuals. Not good. So I encourage all of you, those of you who haven't yet, and I know there are quite a few of you, read more Inrant, read, listen to Leonard Peacock, take Leonard's courses, you know all of them, all of them available now online, they're all available for free. Only one of you can study these things. Sign up to take courses at the Ironman Institute and to the extent that you think you need in order to enhance your life, study these ideas, but always remember the purpose. The purpose is your life. And when you attempt to take these ideas into the realm of politics, there are a few things that you need to remember. Objectivism is not a species of conservatism. It's not a conservative of objectivism. Objectivism is a philosophy that is radical in every dimension. Agree or disagree with it. It is not like anything else. It's arguments for capitalism are different than anybody else's arguments for capitalism. Different than libertarian arguments for capitalism. Different than conservative arguments for capitalism. Different than classical liberal arguments for capitalism. It's argument even defining individual rights. It's a completely different view of individual rights in deep meaningful ways than even the view of John Locke. Because Rand's view of the role of reason in human life is deeper, more substantial, more important, more meaningful than Locke's. So Locke couldn't have had a full understanding of individual rights because he didn't have a full understanding of the role of reason in human life. So as great as an achievement Locke says, Rand is not just a follower of Locke. Her argument about individual rights is not just a Lockeian argument. Rand is a radical. So when you think about her, particularly in politics, she's not a species of conservative, but she's not a species of classical liberal either. She rejects many of the ideas classical liberals held. So in that sense, quaf philosophy as a philosophy. We don't have many allies. And suddenly we don't have the same allies as we have, as we seem to have, let's say, in politics. Right? Seemingly, in politics we have, we're aligned with certain libertarians, right? Free market people. But philosophically, we might not be. Ethically, we might be completely opposite. So many libertarians, free market people are religious, for example, and abide by religious morality, which I consider morality of death and destruction, anti everything I believe in, everything I hold dear. And of course, many of those free market tiers are moral subjectivists and epistemological subjectivists. And most of those then become anarchists. And there's nothing, nothing similar about anarchism and objectivism. They're complete opposites because their philosophy is so different. He is a species of statism, of subjectivism, of the elevation of force above all things. So Rand is not just another, objectivism is not just another set of ideas within a particular well defined tradition. I mean, you can say she's Aristotelian in the sense that she held that Aristotle was the basis foundation for many of her ideas. She disagrees with Aristotle and a lot of very, very important things. So it is, it is the case that we are going to be outcast, separate, alone, philosophically, ideologically, politically, than everybody else out there in the culture.  Even people who listen to me have no understanding, you know, have no clue and reject pretty much everything that I say and come to my chat to let me know that. We have an anarchist who is not a moral subjectivist. Okay, then you're just wrong. It could be that you're wrong about anarchy and you've just made a mistake and it could be wrong about your moral subjectivism. It could be that you are subjectivist and you don't even know it. I don't know. I don't know you. I haven't heard the arguments, but you're wrong. It's just a question of where you're wrong. Are you wrong with anarchy? Your morality is good, but you're wrong with anarchy. Or it could be that you're wrong with anarchy and you're wrong about your moral subjectivism. I don't know. That would have to be, that would have to be a philosophical analysis of your views, which I am not inclined to do right now. All right. So I've got a bunch of super chat questions. I'll get to those in a second. So this is the point.  I'm trying to point to who. He's an objectivist and she's not. I know lots of objectivists who I think live lives that are anti-objectivist. In a sense that they're objectivists, in a sense that they declare themselves to be objectivists. They studied all of Einstein's ideas. They claim to pursue the values and the virtues based on what is written in objectivism.  They live rotten lives because they behave in rotten ways. So somebody telling me they're objectivist means very little to me. I've met too many lousy people who happen to consider themselves objectivists. What matters to me is how you live. And it's not, you shouldn't care what matters to me. What matters to you should be how you live. I'll answer this question. Somebody says, is lying immoral always? No. And if you've read Objectivism, if you've read Ayn Rand, if you've listened to me, you know that. It's the case. So lying is not always immoral and the virtue of honesty is not about lying primarily. It's not the focus. So what's important is, again, not about the focus is not about the studying. The studying isn't necessary but not sufficient. What really matters to me and what should matter to you is how you live. Do you live a good life? Are you properly pursuing your values? Do you hold those virtues right? And the most important of the virtues, not the most important. The integrating virtue of all of them is pride. Do you have pride? And what I mean, what Ayn Rand means by pride is a commitment to being good, to being moral, to being consistent, to living the best life that you can live. That's what should matter to you. That's what matters to me. That's what to me matters in a human being. They call themselves an Objectivist. They don't call themselves an Objectivist. Matters are a lot less. Now, if somebody is going to teach Objectivism, then they have to know Objectivism. If somebody is going to teach Objectivism in the name of the Ayn Rand Institute, they need to know it and they need to live it and they need to believe it's true. But for somebody to be a good person, they just need to live the right life. And for somebody to claim to be an Objectivist, I wish there was a way to zap the people who claim to be an Objectivist who are not, who don't live it. What we need 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 who 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 role of the Collectivist, Brody. Using the super chat, and I noticed yesterday when I appealed for support for the show, many of you step forward and actually supported the show for the first time. So I'll do it again. Maybe we'll get some more today. If you like what you're hearing, if you appreciate what I'm doing, then I appreciate your support. 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Hey everybody, this is Brian and Qt 6 has been released. So we are going to start down the Qt 6 path. I'm really unsure where I want to take this series. I'm not sure if I want to pick up where Qt 5 left off or start all over again from scratch because there's so many changes in Qt 6. I almost feel like they've done a complete rework of the entire Qt core. This is just insane. I absolutely love Qt 6 so far. In this video we're going to show you how to install Qt 6 on Linux, Mac and Windows. Let's dive in and take a look. One thing I love about Qt is it's very versatile. You can install it just about anywhere. For example, I have this Linux virtual machine that I'll be doing most of my development on. So Linux is a little bit more challenging than Windows and Mac. So the first thing you're going to want to do is, well, make sure your system's up to date.  If you're updating your system, this should be fairly snappy and a short step. However, if you're not updating your system, yeah, be prepared. Also, let's go ahead and paste this in. We're going to install G++. I have this installed already. Feel free to use whatever compiler you want, but I'll be using G++ for my tutorials. From there, go ahead and go to download and try. Scroll all the way down to downloads for open source users and click go to open source. Make sure you understand all of the obligations for open source. I've covered this in previous videos. It's pretty straightforward, but you have to really give Qt credit where credits do and make sure you are following the open source licensing. From there, click download the Qt online installer.  The online installer is, well, pretty small. So it should be a pretty snappy download, even on this little virtual machine here. Once you've got this, go ahead and show in folder and right click properties and you want to make sure that this is executable. If you're a command line wizard, of course, feel free to do all of this right off the command line. From there, simply run the installer and everything is, well, pretty straightforward. Make sure you have a Qt account. If not, go ahead and sign up for one. This is a big turn off for a lot of people, but I can tell you this is not a paid advertisement. I'm just a normal user and I have not gotten any spam from Qt whatsoever. So it's actually not bad, but you'll need a email and a password. Go ahead and sign up and then hit next. Make sure you've read and approved the obligations of using open source. The big takeaway here is that you're not going to modify Qt. And if you do, you give those modifications back to Qt and the open source community. Also you have to follow all the licensing guidelines, all of which is available out on Qt. Go ahead and hit next. Okay. If you're feeling very generous, you can help them by allowing statistics in Qt creator. A lot of people don't trust that, so they just go to disable. I'm going to do disable simply because I'm on a little virtual machine and what I do on this virtual machine is not really what I do in real life most of the time. Now I want a custom installation. You can definitely feel free to do the default, but I want a custom installation. So I'm going to go to browse and I want to put this in a special folder. From here, I'm going to tell it to go into the Qt sub folder. Hit next.  Again, I'm on a small virtual machine here, so I don't want five gigs. When in doubt, don't select the whole thing. Only select what you need. What you need for these videos right off the bat is desktop and we might even touch in on the compatibility modules. If you want stuff later, you can run the maintenance tool and install it after the fact. You don't need to download everything right up front. Go ahead and agree to the license agreement and go ahead and install. All right. Once the installer is done, Linux has another extra little step here. You're going to want to go out to Google and you're going to want to look up for your operating system. How to install OpenGL. Once you find those steps, go ahead and follow those directions on how to install OpenGL for your Linux version. The big takeaway here is that Qt has an amazing graphics engine, but it does rely on OpenGL. So if you don't have that installed, you're going to have a bad time when you go to do QML or Qt widgets. Back in the installer, you can just make sure launch Qt creators checked and hit finish. Now let's say you've been happily coding away, but you find there's a feature you're missing and you want to go out and reinstall it. You don't have to reinstall all of Qt. Then go out to wherever you installed Qt and run the maintenance tool. This is the de facto on every operating system, and I'm going to cover this in Mac and Windows as well, but you just run this maintenance tool and it starts the installer. Hit next and then make sure you've got add or remove components selected from there. Hit next. It will download the meta information and then you can just simply select the components that you want. Hit next and follow the directions on the screen. This is how to install Qt on Mac. First thing you want to do is make sure that you have Xcode installed, configured, and that you can open it. Once you get to this point, you're pretty much good to go. If you have any issues, consult Apple's documentation how to configure Xcode. From there, you're going to download the online installer for open source and Mac. Make sure you understand and agree to all the open source license restrictions and go to download the Qt online installer. Download the installer. Once the installer has been downloaded, go ahead and open it up. You're going to want to mount the dmg file that you downloaded, and then run the installer. You'll need the Qt account and password. If you don't have one, go ahead and click sign up. The process is fairly painless and then click next. Make sure you have read and approve of the obligations for using open source with Qt and click next. Go ahead and disable sending statistics and go ahead and choose your download installation location. From there, you're going to want to select what components you want. A common mistake is to select everything. Instead, just choose what you need, similar to how we did it in the Linux section. Once you've decided what you need, go ahead and hit next. And go ahead and accept the license agreement and next and install. Once the installation process is finished, make sure launch Qt creator is checked. Hit finish. After the installation, go ahead and unmount that dmg. If there's anything that you forgot to install, you can go back out to your installation folder and run the maintenance tool. The maintenance tool will allow you to install any components that you want and even remove components you don't want. Make sure that add remove components is selected and hit next. From there, the steps are virtually identical. Just expand your version of Qt and select what you want to install. And then hit next and follow the directions on the screen. These are the steps you need to install Qt 6 on Windows 10. First thing you need to do is go to qt.io, click download and try. Scroll all the way down to downloads for open source users and click go open source. Make sure you understand and agree to all of the licensing restrictions for open source development and scroll all the way down to download the Qt online installer. From here, just simply download the installer and wait for the download to complete. Go ahead and open up the installer and run it. The installer is pretty intuitive and pretty straightforward. Simply make sure that you have a Qt account. If you don't, you can go ahead and sign up. It's pretty painless. Hit next. Go ahead and make sure you approve the obligations of using Qt open source and hit next. Hit next again to download the meta information and go ahead and disable usage statistics. I want to do a custom installation. Hit next and feel free to put Qt wherever you want it. From there, choose Qt along with Qt version six common mistake is to select the entire thing but then you're shocked by a massive download. So don't check everything instead just check what you need. For example, I'm going to use MinGW 64 bit along with the Qt five compatibility module. If I want something else, for example, the sources, I can download those later. Everything else can be installed later. Note if you do a previous installation, there is a lot more and it is a much bigger download. People are often shocked by how much you're downloading again. Just install what you need. For example, MinGW 64 bit. Once you have everything that you want to download, go ahead and double check and then hit next. From there, make sure you agree to the license agreement and hit next again. Choose a shortcut name and then hit install. Once the installation has been completed, hit next, make sure that launch Qt creator is checked and hit finish. If at any time you realize you're missing a component or you want to add a feature of Qt, simply go to wherever you installed Qt and run the maintenance tool. Repeat the sign in process. Go ahead and make sure that add remove components is selected. Then go ahead and expand the version of Qt you want to update and select any components you need and hit next, follow the directions on the screen. I hope you enjoyed this video. You can find the source code out on github.com. 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