I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.-- Galileo Galilei
About:
I'm David, a graduate student in Information Systems at Texas A&M University. I am a radical for capitalism and an advocate of reason, individual rights, and free markets. I enjoy discussing philosophy, ethics, politics and economics. If you would like to read some of the essays I've written about various issues I care about, you may find them here. To read my biography, scroll down.
A short biography:
David Veksler was born in Ukraine on October 12, 1980. Ten years later, he escaped with his family to the United States of America, the greatest country in the world. After eight years of collectivist brainwashing in the public schools of San Antonio , Texas , he entered Texas A&M University . While at A&M, he discovered the meaning of liberty in the form of free-market economics. His interest in liberty caused him to change his major to economics and political science, in which he received degrees three years later.
Not long after becoming a greedy capitalist, David's intellectual journey led him to discover the ideas of the writer and novelist Ayn Rand and her philosophy of Objectivism. His passion for ideas led him to begin a life-long study of philosophy. He has been an advocate of individual rights, and a pro-reason, pro-reality philosophy on campus as well as on the web. David loves debating philosophy, politics, economics, and technology with anyone who cares to offer him a rational argument. He currently does this at Aggie Objectivism Club and the Objectivism Online forums.
David also has a strong interest in technology; especially the way electronic information systems are improving human life. He is currently a graduate student in Management of Information Systems as Texas A&M. He immensely enjoys web-design and programming both for a living and as a hobby. He dreams in 32-bit color and object oriented code.
His professional goal is to become a leading expert in system architecture and enterprise system development. His intellectual goal is to become learned in the theory, history, philosophy, and ethics of freedom. His personal goals are to learn to fly, build a plane, find friends who can keep up with his thinking, and retire to write books on how great human life should and can be. He knows no judgment higher than his own, no purpose more meaningful than his own life, and no object more deserving of worship than his own mind.
When not writing about himself in the third person, David enjoys reading, skating, skiing, hiking, digital photography, and flight simulators. He leads a busy schedule and hates waiting or walking anywhere, unless it's up a cliff side. If you see him on campus, he will usually be skating, or running to class or work, so he kindly requests that you get out of the way!
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