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2005-02-02 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Chris W. 2005-02-02 12:30:17 PM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It is quite easy to design an ideal society if you get to pick what kind of people live in it. I noticed a little disconnect between the way she wanted people to behave and the way they actually do.
The slogan "reason" makes for a nice banner, but logic needs a little input data if you want any results. And I never found her give a satisfactory answer to the question of why people so often decline to do what they judge to be right.

Posted by James 2005-02-02 3:08:48 PM|| [http://www.idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2005-02-02 3:08:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I've always wondered if Rand killed more threads than Hitler, there outa be a corollary to that law...

Posted by Shipman 2005-02-02 3:20:59 PM|| 2005-02-02 3:20:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't know about you guys, but the reasons other people have for doing what I think is wrong has very little bearing on why I do what I think is right.
Hence my disdain for the departments of Philosophy and English Lit. at many colleges, and my predilection for quoting Ayn Rand---the anathema of the wishy-washy, nihilistic, and relative crap that is preached so commonly these days.

Posted by Asedwich 2005-02-02 7:52:25 PM|| 2005-02-02 7:52:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#4
I once watched a documentary about her life on public television. I think it was this, A Sense of Life. It was a long, completely riveting documentary. What an unusual and remarkable life she led! Whether or not you are interested in her philosophy, this documentary is excellent, if you ever have an opportunity to watch it.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2005-02-02 11:17:01 PM|| 2005-02-02 11:17:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 "Underneath the skin, all humanity is brothers and I would skin humanity alive to prove it."

- AYN RAND -

Ayn Rand was one of the few human beings to accurately portray capitalism as the only socio-economic system that correctly telescopes between the individual and society. While her works were largely cast in a binary or stereotypical mode, she nonetheless managed to clearly convey essential distinctions regarding the common self-loathing of inappropriately liberal doctrines and the utterly invalid notion of Christian altruism.

Be it unworthiness or such perversions of the human spirit as original sin, Rand fought them with both vigor and clarity of expression. I suggest that any who doubt this read, "Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal" or "The New Left, the Anti-Industrial Revolution." For those in need of further clarification, please refer to "Philosophy Who Needs It."

However polarized Rand might be perceived as being, few if any have attained her level of resolution in determining exactly how dependent human life is upon rational thought or consistencey of deed.

I challenge all who read this to provide better sources of guidance through the confused and rocky shoals of modern philosophical perception. Rand valiantly fought against those who would deem that there is no right or wrong, that we can never know anything for sure, that truth is subjective. If you wish an example, please tell me where rape is ever permissable. There is such a thing as right and wrong and Ayn Rand did her level best to identify it in clear language.

Many happy returns, Ms. Rand. You are one of my heros.

Posted by Zenster 2005-02-02 11:17:19 PM|| 2005-02-02 11:17:19 PM|| Front Page Top

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