This is Aiton Weinstein. And I'm Naura Menninger, and you're listening to Two Nice Jewish Boys.

One of the fundamental questions that divide the right and left today all over the world is the question of agency. Are we in control of our lives or our, our lives playing out some deterministic script?

Are we non-playing characters in a reality-sized computer game?

More than 200 episodes ago, we hosted Dr. Yaron Brook, chairman of the board of the

Iron Institute on the podcast.

One of the central tenets of Ayn Rand's philosophy of objectivism is that we are not NPCs in some video game.

Well, not quite in those words.

Rather, Rand claimed that it is our moral duty to selfishly pursue our own happiness.

And at the basis of that claim is the idea that the individual rests at the center.

And he or she or they are capable of

shaping their own lives today we are joined by another student of philosophy another iron

rann fanboy another man who also believes that we're all selfish self-centered joy-seeking

bastards and good on us for that natanan Galulazar is a father of two content creator, objectivist, musician several days a year,

and public relations manager of an Israeli high-tech firm.

We are super thrilled to be joined by Natan today, who previously we only knew on Twitter,

to talk about

objectivism, the Israeli right, abortion, and any other random topic that comes up, because why not?

Yes, very thrilled to be here. Thank you so much, man. So how are you? Like I said, I'm thrilled.

It's good to meet the faces behind the avatars.

Yeah, we were talking on the way up how you rarely meet anybody on Twitter.

Yeah.

Right?

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