Re: An Open Letter To Open-Minded Progressives

On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:20:00 -0500, "skysi" <feur@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>"raven1" <quoththeraven@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:08:32 -0500, "?????? ????????" <feurio@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrote:
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>>>Folks, read works of Ayn Rand and a lot of your confusion in life, 
>>>politics
>>>and economics will go away.
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>> That would be a feat, given Rand's total muddle-headedness on each of
>> the topics. Like Marxism, Libertarianism is an excellent example of
>> "nice idea, wrong species".
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>Hmm... and what exactly did you read to come up with the conclusion. Care
to 
>comment on examples of muddle-headedness?

The entirety of the philosophy contained in "Atlas Shrugged" and "The
Fountainhead" would be a good start.

>Libertarianism has little to do with Objectivism, btw.
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>>>You probably heard of Atlas Shrugged,
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>> A political polemic in the form of an excruciatingly long and poorly
>> written novel. One of those books about which it can be said that "it
>> does not permit itself to be read".
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>
>This  "poorly written novel" is still selling in large numbers, long
after 
>her death.

So are any number of other poorly written novels.

>>> but that's
>>>not enough.
>>>She is the founder of philosophy of Objectivism.
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>> Which carries as much weight around alt.atheism as being the founder
>> of Scientology.
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>
>I'm not posting in alt.atheism

I'm reading it here.

>>>The fundamentals of her
>>>philosophy are set forth in such nonfiction books as:
>>>For the New Intelectual, The virtue of Selfishness, Capitalism: The 
>>>Unknown
>>>Ideal., and Romantic Manifesto. Also read the following: Introduction
to
>>>Objectivist Epistemology, edited by Harry Bibswanger and leonard
Peikoff.
>>>
>>>This will open your eyes on a lot of things.
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>> Such as why most Randroids tend to be socially inept 15-16 year old
>> males?
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>Alan Greenspan is one of them, I presume

It's really hard to equate Greenspan's actions as Chairman of the Fed
with an Objectivist or Libertarian philosophy.

> :o). Rand Institute is full of 
>those too.
>I'm not talking about people whos convictions are based on a passing 
>fa****on, rather of people whos convictions are based on a certain 
>philosophy.
>When that's the case you stop to be a droid of anything,but a thinking 
>individual. 

You must know some different ones; all the ones we get passing through
alt.atheism are complete kooks.