>You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice.
>If you choose not to decide, you still haven't made a choice.
>You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill;
>I will choose a path that's clear-
>I will choose Free Will.
Rush - Free Will
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6pn8O7nXKY

Lyrics such as these are the basic essence of Objectivism. Free will. The power to change your destiny should you so choose. Total rejection of the idea that some people are born into situations from which they cannot rise out of without help. Another line from the above song goes, "Blame is better to give than receive". No greater sarcastic truism has ever been uttered. The simple truth of the world is that absolutely each and every person who finds themselves in difficult circumstances is there as a result of their own actions. This is what Objectivism teaches us, that those who have problems deserve no help because it is all their fault anyway.