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Yang\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;\u0026quot;However, if we accept this view, then our primary focus in all relationships will be to ask: What does this person have to offer me? What if a person offers no values whatsoever to me? Am I not then justified in treating him indifferently? Why should I offer a person any semblance of respect until he demonstrates himself worthy of respect? What if he represents a negative value to me? What shall I do then?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMoreover, what if a person once met my need but no longer satisfies my selfish pleasure? Should I not discard or ignore that person in the same manner as a worn-out appliance? Would that not be consistent with the Objectivist definition of a trader, a man who “earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved”?\u0026quot;\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENathaniel Branden demonstrated what happens when his lover did not longer satisfies his selfish pleasure. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr 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10:53:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6417415834907723005"},"published":{"$t":"2023-04-10T08:25:15.824-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-04-10T08:25:15.824-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biddle has responded to criticism -\n\nhttps:\/\/craig..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Biddle has responded to criticism -\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/craigbiddle.com\/2023\/04\/08\/on-the-evil-of-bringing-clarity-about-objectivism-to-young-minds\/?fbclid=IwAR28uun2KTypfXmgZNcCJu96v01km55J9H4a7uPLq04l89EV_uITs98oPJk"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6676267989711305897\/comments\/default\/6417415834907723005"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6676267989711305897\/comments\/default\/6417415834907723005"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2023\/03\/the-big-news-is-that-craig-biddle-and.html?showComment=1681140315824#c6417415834907723005","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2023\/03\/the-big-news-is-that-craig-biddle-and.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6676267989711305897","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6676267989711305897","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/10\/2023 08:25:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8285513653437494427"},"published":{"$t":"2023-03-13T07:43:17.998-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-03-13T07:43:17.998-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Dear Mr. Nyquist:\n\nThere is a typo in my last post..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Dear Mr. Nyquist:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is a typo in my last post.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECould you delete one of the haves?\u003Cbr 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07:43:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7957546329329594756"},"published":{"$t":"2023-03-12T11:18:17.819-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-03-12T11:18:17.819-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"In their refusal to debate anyone they morally dis..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In their refusal to debate anyone they morally disapprove of (which is most of us, BTW), orthodox Objectivists such as Valliant were ahead to their time. Nowadays, that\u0026#39;s the default position of many on the \u0026quot;woke\u0026quot; or radical left. They won\u0026#39;t debate large swaths of people because they don\u0026#39;t want to \u0026quot;platform\u0026quot; people they disapprove of (which is often nearly everyone who disagrees with them). It\u0026#39;s hard, however, not to suspect the real reason why they don\u0026#39;t want to debate their adversaries is they\u0026#39;re afraid they\u0026#39;re going to lose!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt\u0026#39;s also interesting how the most orthodox, Ayn Rand-centric of Objectivists (like Valliant) are most hostile toward those who\u0026#39;s philosophical and ideological convictions come closest to their own. Let\u0026#39;s face it: there\u0026#39;s very little difference between \u0026quot;closed\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;open\u0026quot; Objectivists on the basic issues. They all believe mostly the same things. Politically, there\u0026#39;s not much difference between Objectivists and libertarians, yet Peikoff would always insist that libertarians were \u0026quot;worse than communists.\u0026quot; What\u0026#39;s going on here? Why are some Objectivists so quick to quarrel with potential allies? My hypothesis is that in terms of actual practical conduct, there are some Objectivist intellectuals who have unconsciously accepted the fact that Rand\u0026#39;s philosophy is a dead end (i.e., it will never exerise a significant effect on society), yet who see Objectivism as a path for personal notoriety and perhaps even a few shekels. They want to fence off Objectivism as their own private preserve where they and they alone get to shine as preachers of the Randian gospel. It\u0026#39;s therefore primarily jealousy that promotes their hatred of rival forms of Objectivism and libertarianism. Valliant is jealous of Hicks because Hicks has a much larger audience and is far more respected intellectual. So in his envy and malice, he turns Hicks into this immense bogey man. In any case, Valliant\u0026#39;s insistence that debating Hicks is equivalent to debating a Holocaust denier is so over-the-top that it\u0026#39;s hard to regard it as any more than a feeble rationalization of unacknowledged feelings of envy and \u003Ci\u003Eresentiment\u003C\/i\u003E."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6676267989711305897\/comments\/default\/7957546329329594756"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6676267989711305897\/comments\/default\/7957546329329594756"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2023\/03\/the-big-news-is-that-craig-biddle-and.html?showComment=1678645097819#c7957546329329594756","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2023\/03\/the-big-news-is-that-craig-biddle-and.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6676267989711305897","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6676267989711305897","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/12\/2023 11:18:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6390460758941311240"},"published":{"$t":"2023-03-07T08:32:42.396-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-03-07T08:32:42.396-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"TV drug ads have all have the typical list of side..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"TV drug ads have all have the typical list of side effects-------\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ewhich are often worse than the original disease.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen there\u0026#39;s the punch line: ask your doctor if our snake oil is right for you!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMilton Friedman said that regulatory agencies are often captured by the industry being \u0026quot;regulated\u0026quot;.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo why should we trust Big Pharma?"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7095528622169173460\/comments\/default\/6390460758941311240"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7095528622169173460\/comments\/default\/6390460758941311240"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2023\/03\/the-mrna-vaccine-controversy-and-reason.html?showComment=1678206762396#c6390460758941311240","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2023\/03\/the-mrna-vaccine-controversy-and-reason.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7095528622169173460","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7095528622169173460","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/07\/2023 08:32:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3990199470010871111"},"published":{"$t":"2023-03-07T03:47:23.587-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-03-07T03:47:23.587-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Collecting and logically analyzing the relevant fa..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Collecting and logically analyzing the relevant facts is the most reliable way to understand an issue.  It is also a slow way. Too slow for us to be able to use it in most cases. We have to use shortcuts most of the time.\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne of these is to use intuition and heuristics. These are faster but less accurate than reasoning, at least most of the time. One thing about these is that the intuitions of someone with a lot of appropriate subject matter experience will be more reliable than those of someone who does not have that experience.\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnother way is to trust the judgement of someone who has been able to spend the time on a reasoning their way to a conclusion. The question is \u0026quot;How do we know who to trust among those who claim to have studied the matter?\u0026quot;. I can think of two main things to look for. One is \u0026quot;Is this person actually interested in the subject rather than trying to win?\u0026quot;. The other is \u0026quot;Are there other people checking their facts and arguments?\u0026quot;."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7095528622169173460\/comments\/default\/3990199470010871111"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7095528622169173460\/comments\/default\/3990199470010871111"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2023\/03\/the-mrna-vaccine-controversy-and-reason.html?showComment=1678189643587#c3990199470010871111","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Lloyd Flack"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00832519369660328832"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"24","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/4108\/914\/1600\/649295\/blogpict2.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2023\/03\/the-mrna-vaccine-controversy-and-reason.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7095528622169173460","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7095528622169173460","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1571382465"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/07\/2023 03:47:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1674804399303748347"},"published":{"$t":"2023-02-21T10:06:46.063-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-02-21T10:06:46.063-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"For a realistic \u0026quot;libertarianism\u0026quot; see THE..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"For a realistic \u0026quot;libertarianism\u0026quot; see THE MACHIAVELLIANS:DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM by James\u003Cbr \/\u003EBurnham."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7017931429159343683\/comments\/default\/1674804399303748347"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7017931429159343683\/comments\/default\/1674804399303748347"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2023\/02\/objectivist-roundup-february-2023.html?showComment=1677002806063#c1674804399303748347","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2023\/02\/objectivist-roundup-february-2023.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7017931429159343683","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7017931429159343683","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"2\/21\/2023 10:06:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5405072083467116758"},"published":{"$t":"2023-02-20T17:29:10.254-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-02-20T17:29:10.254-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The state\u0026#39;s men with guns will eventually show..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The state\u0026#39;s men with guns will eventually show up at your door if you renege on your obligations to pay your rent, your mortgage or your child support. And anyone with experience in the hotel business will tell you that he has had to call the cops to deal with unruly guests. From some reason libertarians don\u0026#39;t consider these deployments of armed men unjust when it comes to collecting money owed to \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003ETHEM\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7017931429159343683\/comments\/default\/5405072083467116758"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7017931429159343683\/comments\/default\/5405072083467116758"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2023\/02\/objectivist-roundup-february-2023.html?showComment=1676942950254#c5405072083467116758","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Albionic American"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07863146943953471221"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2023\/02\/objectivist-roundup-february-2023.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7017931429159343683","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7017931429159343683","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1881752841"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"2\/20\/2023 05:29:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7056123362391289958"},"published":{"$t":"2023-02-20T07:18:24.881-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-02-20T07:18:24.881-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\nThey can still put you in jail!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey can still put you in jail!"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7017931429159343683\/comments\/default\/7056123362391289958"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7017931429159343683\/comments\/default\/7056123362391289958"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2023\/02\/objectivist-roundup-february-2023.html?showComment=1676906304881#c7056123362391289958","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2023\/02\/objectivist-roundup-february-2023.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7017931429159343683","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7017931429159343683","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"2\/20\/2023 07:18:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6950876198794082444"},"published":{"$t":"2023-02-18T21:28:22.406-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-02-18T21:28:22.406-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Regarding Sandefur\u0026#39;s books, it says something ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Regarding Sandefur\u0026#39;s books, it says something about American libertarianism\u0026#39;s failure that it derives in part from the writings of three alienated, sterile women in the last century who couldn\u0026#39;t form stable or proper relationships with men. Libertarianism just doesn\u0026#39;t appeal to socially functional and integrated people. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot only that, but libertarian arguments against the state from the 1940\u0026#39;s sound outdated in a world where the governments in the majority of countries have abolished or restricted the use of capital punishment. People can\u0026#39;t relate to the libertarian characterization of the state as a criminal organization which threatens to murder them for noncompliance, when they can see that their governments offer them services like health care and provisions for their old age.  "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7017931429159343683\/comments\/default\/6950876198794082444"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7017931429159343683\/comments\/default\/6950876198794082444"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2023\/02\/objectivist-roundup-february-2023.html?showComment=1676784502406#c6950876198794082444","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Albionic American"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07863146943953471221"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2023\/02\/objectivist-roundup-february-2023.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7017931429159343683","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7017931429159343683","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1881752841"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"2\/18\/2023 09:28:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5008913368850981617"},"published":{"$t":"2022-12-17T10:49:18.858-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-12-17T10:49:18.858-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I wonder how future Rand biographer and ARI suppor..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I wonder how future Rand biographer and ARI supporter Shoshana Milgram will handle such accounts."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4930156371759452395\/comments\/default\/5008913368850981617"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4930156371759452395\/comments\/default\/5008913368850981617"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/12\/objectivist-roundup-december-2022.html?showComment=1671302958858#c5008913368850981617","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/12\/objectivist-roundup-december-2022.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4930156371759452395","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4930156371759452395","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"12\/17\/2022 10:49:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8083013190494532480"},"published":{"$t":"2022-11-28T09:57:47.239-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-11-28T09:57:47.239-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"In that time span, how do you make the characters ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EIn that time span, how do you make the characters real? \u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs someone who writes, I think having more time to work with would make it easier to flesh out a character. That Rand couldn\u0026#39;t do it with the incredible page count of Atlas says more to her characterization skills than anything else. The problem is going to be: how much leeway to adapt the material will the producers be given? If the answer is (as is implied) \u0026quot;not much\u0026quot;, then sure, it\u0026#39;s not going to get much further than the previous trilogy of films.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut I was referring more to the \u0026quot;problems\u0026quot; brought up by Albionic American, which I don\u0026#39;t really see as being much of a problem. The things he describes are and have been in mainstream cinema and TV before, and apart from some grumbling from notable critics, don\u0026#39;t really affect what does well or flops in the public sphere. It\u0026#39;s difficult to succeed in those arenas without a certain cross-cultural tolerance, which suggests that at least some part of the conservative sphere watches movies that they might ideologically object to if really pressed on the issue.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESexual mores? Who really cares? Anti-family? As long as they don\u0026#39;t have Dagny openly spouting off about all the fetuses she aborted, I don\u0026#39;t think it\u0026#39;s going to be that much of an issue. And while Rand herself certainly was staunchly atheist, I don\u0026#39;t recall Atlas spending much time explicitly denouncing the church - there\u0026#39;s an awful lot of material to forget in that book, so I might well be wrong on that score.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI think, just as conservatives rallied around Trump despite his history of some very un-conservative actions and viewpoints, that many conservatives could easily see fit to tolerate the parts of Atlas they might object to if it serves them up enough of what they do like - the anti-socialist, anti-communist and pro-capitalist messages. Rush Limbaugh used to hold Atlas up from time to time as a great book - but he just never talked about any of Rand\u0026#39;s opinions he might have disliked. DailyWire, I suspect, will similarly play down or outright ignore as much of Rand\u0026#39;s message that they find problematic in some way, to as much of an extent as they can get away with, leaving it up to outside commentators to write long blog posts about how \u0026quot;conservatives are fawning over a pro-choice atheist\u0026#39;s work\u0026quot; or the like.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd for good or ill, these aren\u0026#39;t the days of Whittaker Chambers. Partisan sentiment is high, and so is the desire to see \u0026quot;the other side\u0026quot; punished or destroyed. The train tunnel sequence, which Chambers saw as eagerly ghoulish on Rand\u0026#39;s part, might well become a favorite part of that portion of today\u0026#39;s conservative audience that wants to \u0026quot;own the libs\u0026quot;, so long as the victims are portrayed mostly as those very libs they detest. One era\u0026#39;s flaw may be another\u0026#39;s selling point.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI could be wrong! I may have totally mis-read the heart of modern conservatism and misjudged their potential appetite for such fare. On the other hand, here\u0026#39;s DailyWire volunteering to sink a very large amount of money into this project - even if it\u0026#39;s a low-budget affair, it\u0026#39;ll eat up a lot of wealth in its production - so unless this is some exec\u0026#39;s passion project, they at least think there\u0026#39;s something there they can sell.\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/9156535817846877972\/comments\/default\/8083013190494532480"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/9156535817846877972\/comments\/default\/8083013190494532480"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/daily-wire-secures-exclusive-rights-to.html?showComment=1669658267239#c8083013190494532480","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/daily-wire-secures-exclusive-rights-to.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-9156535817846877972","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/9156535817846877972","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11\/28\/2022 09:57:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7054275155367836043"},"published":{"$t":"2022-11-27T13:05:02.086-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-11-27T13:05:02.086-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Problems from what standpoint? It\u0026#39;s not as if ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EProblems from what standpoint? It\u0026#39;s not as if the cinema hasn\u0026#39;t produced very popular but thematically bonkers material before.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt\u0026#39;s not really a question of whether \u003Ci\u003EAtlas\u003C\/i\u003E is thematically bonkers. The theme of the book could be seen as it\u0026#39;s strong point — depending, of course, on one\u0026#39;s ideological point of view. It\u0026#39;s the realization of the theme where you it gets challenging, especially if you\u0026#39;re trying present the material seriously, which is presumably what the DailyWire will attempt. Wooden characters presented in heavily politicized story-making is incredibly challenging to pull off. \u003Ci\u003EAtlas\u003C\/i\u003E will not actually be a movie, it will be a series which could easily last over fifteen hours. In that time span, how do you make the characters real? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EI don\u0026#39;t know that the \u0026quot;anti-family\u0026quot; thing would be a big deal for Hollywood.\u003C\/i\u003E This will not be a Hollywood production. It will be featured behind the paywall of a conservative website. Now there does exist a contingent of conservatives (often of more libertarian cast mind) who like \u003Ci\u003EAtlas\u003C\/i\u003E and think it\u0026#39;s great work. There\u0026#39;s also, on the other side, a long tradition of conservative dissenters on \u003Ci\u003EAtlas\u003C\/i\u003E going back to Whittaker Chambers. It will be interesting to know what kind budget the DailyWire will invest in this thing. They have only about a million subscribers. Will that be enough to pay for it? How many libertarian types will pay for a subscription (and for how long?) to see the series? I know the DailyWire would like to do more \u0026quot;mainstream\u0026quot; (i.e., non-woke) type entertainment. Well, \u003Ci\u003EAtlas\u003C\/i\u003E may not be woke, but it\u0026#39;s certainly not mainstream."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/9156535817846877972\/comments\/default\/7054275155367836043"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/9156535817846877972\/comments\/default\/7054275155367836043"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/daily-wire-secures-exclusive-rights-to.html?showComment=1669583102086#c7054275155367836043","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/daily-wire-secures-exclusive-rights-to.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-9156535817846877972","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/9156535817846877972","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11\/27\/2022 01:05:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4825351126698958594"},"published":{"$t":"2022-11-26T18:59:42.733-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-11-26T18:59:42.733-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Problems from what standpoint? It\u0026#39;s not as if ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Problems from what standpoint? It\u0026#39;s not as if the cinema hasn\u0026#39;t produced very popular but thematically bonkers material before. Whether some YouTube commentator can pick apart all the logical flaws in a movie is not, I suspect, going to significantly impact whether the movie entertains the public at large and is thus successful.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI don\u0026#39;t know that the \u0026quot;anti-family\u0026quot; thing would be a big deal for Hollywood - certainly it might not play well in conservative America - but even in the book Rand tossed a sop to the concept when she has Dagny observe and talk to one of the Gulch residents, a woman with two sons. I don\u0026#39;t think it would be too hard to play some elements down and play others up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf we\u0026#39;re talking about Galt\u0026#39;s sexual history, I think Dagny\u0026#39;s might be more problematic, considering she\u0026#39;s intimately involved with Rearden for much of the book and drops him like hot lava when she meets Galt. And both Rearden and d\u0026#39;Ancoinia are mooning over her at the story\u0026#39;s end! I find that weird, but then many a movie has depicted \u0026quot;weird\u0026quot; while still pulling a profit.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the Fountainhead got made. Which answers the last question: It\u0026#39;s okay for the Chads to wreck things if it keeps the moochers and parasites from having them; one presumes that the latter wrecking things potentially keeps them out of the hands of deserving and good-looking Chads, therefore bad."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/9156535817846877972\/comments\/default\/4825351126698958594"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/9156535817846877972\/comments\/default\/4825351126698958594"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/daily-wire-secures-exclusive-rights-to.html?showComment=1669517982733#c4825351126698958594","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/daily-wire-secures-exclusive-rights-to.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-9156535817846877972","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/9156535817846877972","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11\/26\/2022 06:59:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7135995122492307213"},"published":{"$t":"2022-11-26T11:13:54.721-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-11-26T11:13:54.721-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"There are also the problems with Rand\u0026#39;s unsubt..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"There are also the problems with Rand\u0026#39;s unsubtle anti-family message in the novel; the implicit problem with John Galt\u0026#39;s sexual history and sexual experience before he gets lucky with Dagny in the railroad\u0026#39;s storeroom; and the conflicts between what the novel shows versus what it says. For a glaring example, why is it morally good for the Chad-looking heroes to destroy industrial wealth like oil fields, steel mills \u0026amp; mines, but it\u0026#39;s morally bad when the ugly characters do it? "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/9156535817846877972\/comments\/default\/7135995122492307213"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/9156535817846877972\/comments\/default\/7135995122492307213"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/daily-wire-secures-exclusive-rights-to.html?showComment=1669490034721#c7135995122492307213","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Albionic American"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07863146943953471221"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/daily-wire-secures-exclusive-rights-to.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-9156535817846877972","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/9156535817846877972","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1881752841"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11\/26\/2022 11:13:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8017743939414289182"},"published":{"$t":"2022-11-26T00:15:54.377-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-11-26T00:15:54.377-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"That actually might not be a bad idea. Kinda like ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"That actually might not be a bad idea. Kinda like Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, with a deliberately retro tone. Only I suspect Rand fans would object to anything even hinting at an ironic take on the story."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/9156535817846877972\/comments\/default\/8017743939414289182"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/9156535817846877972\/comments\/default\/8017743939414289182"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/daily-wire-secures-exclusive-rights-to.html?showComment=1669450554377#c8017743939414289182","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/daily-wire-secures-exclusive-rights-to.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-9156535817846877972","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/9156535817846877972","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11\/26\/2022 12:15:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6206755191876956054"},"published":{"$t":"2022-11-25T06:42:59.269-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-11-25T06:42:59.269-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I didn\u0026#39;t watch the three part movie and I\u0026#39;..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I didn\u0026#39;t watch the three part movie and I\u0026#39;m no movie buff, but something tells me some novels, no matter how good, can\u0026#39;t be made into good movies.  The best approach would be to film it in black \u0026amp; white and set it in the 50s.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/9156535817846877972\/comments\/default\/6206755191876956054"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/9156535817846877972\/comments\/default\/6206755191876956054"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/daily-wire-secures-exclusive-rights-to.html?showComment=1669387379269#c6206755191876956054","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13328426272329263353"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/daily-wire-secures-exclusive-rights-to.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-9156535817846877972","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/9156535817846877972","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-215738723"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11\/25\/2022 06:42:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1386302882190668685"},"published":{"$t":"2022-11-25T06:26:13.589-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-11-25T06:26:13.589-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I looked into it once and it appears that the clai..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I looked into it once and it appears that the claim that certain groups at Ellis Island or first generation had very low IQs is a misreading of the sources.  Apparently psychologists would test people who seemed \u0026quot;feeble minded\u0026quot; and they were correct 80% of the time. But later reports described it as \u0026quot;80% of Hungarians (whatever group) were low IQ.\u0026quot; "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5653237460847351328\/comments\/default\/1386302882190668685"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5653237460847351328\/comments\/default\/1386302882190668685"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/orthodox-objectivisms-struggle-with.html?showComment=1669386373589#c1386302882190668685","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13328426272329263353"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/orthodox-objectivisms-struggle-with.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5653237460847351328","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5653237460847351328","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-215738723"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11\/25\/2022 06:26:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7813883469016672320"},"published":{"$t":"2022-11-24T13:10:54.265-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-11-24T13:10:54.265-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"There could be some reasonable critiques of IQ tes..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"There could be some reasonable critiques of IQ testing. One is methodology. An anecdote I\u0026#39;ve heard is that in early days, immigrants to the US were IQ-tested and found to be lacking - but later analysis revealed that some of the questions were data-specific, like asking \u0026quot;who was the third US President\u0026quot;, things like that which weren\u0026#39;t an actual measure of problem-solving but of fact access and retention. The subsequent children of such immigrants would of course perform much better on that kind of testing - and if IQ is heritable, that would suggest the parents were smarter than the test results let on (as well as there being other factors like deprivation at work).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat said, I would grant that there have probably been dramatic advancements in the field of IQ testing from those times to this that ought to (we hope) better focus on actual raw intelligence, but if I were more interested in bringing an argument against IQ testing, that\u0026#39;d be where I looked first.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere\u0026#39;s another angle which isn\u0026#39;t so much about IQ testing as it is about what some people want to do with the results. As the furor around \u003Ci\u003EThe Bell Curve\u003C\/i\u003E shows, linking IQ to genetics has the effect of potentially linking it to race as well, and so we have one group of people wanting to use that kind of data to justify their racism, while another group stridently denies any suggestion of heritable IQ in order to avoid giving fuel to the other side (or being accused of racism themselves). One could almost say Rand was laudable in a way for trying to detach race from IQ, if it wasn\u0026#39;t for the whole \u0026quot;rejection of all the other facts regarding IQ\u0026quot; stuff."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5653237460847351328\/comments\/default\/7813883469016672320"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5653237460847351328\/comments\/default\/7813883469016672320"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/orthodox-objectivisms-struggle-with.html?showComment=1669324254265#c7813883469016672320","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/orthodox-objectivisms-struggle-with.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5653237460847351328","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5653237460847351328","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11\/24\/2022 01:10:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6925041363337968516"},"published":{"$t":"2022-11-24T07:19:42.006-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-11-24T07:19:42.006-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Sources vary, but an IQ of 150 is probably \u0026lt; 1\/..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Sources vary, but an IQ of 150 is probably \u0026lt; 1\/2 of one percent of the population."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5653237460847351328\/comments\/default\/6925041363337968516"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5653237460847351328\/comments\/default\/6925041363337968516"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/orthodox-objectivisms-struggle-with.html?showComment=1669303182006#c6925041363337968516","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13328426272329263353"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/orthodox-objectivisms-struggle-with.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5653237460847351328","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5653237460847351328","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-215738723"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11\/24\/2022 07:19:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4623814654389688250"},"published":{"$t":"2022-11-24T07:00:36.449-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-11-24T07:00:36.449-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I forgot this:\n\n______________\n\n\n\nQ: \u0026quot;Could y..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I forgot this:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E______________\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EQ: \u0026quot;Could you write a revised edition of Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology for people with an IQ of 110, or will it remain available only to people with an IQ of 150?\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA: \u0026quot;I’d prefer that people raise their IQ from 110 to 150. It can be done. [FHF 67]\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMayhew, Robert. Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q \u0026amp; A (p. 180). \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E_____________________\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERand probably didn\u0026#39;t know that IQ 110 is a bit above average and 150 is borderline genius (1% of the population if that).  But her answer does reflect a blank slate idea that you can increase your intelligence.  Intelligence is pretty much fixed by age 19 or so.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5653237460847351328\/comments\/default\/4623814654389688250"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5653237460847351328\/comments\/default\/4623814654389688250"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/orthodox-objectivisms-struggle-with.html?showComment=1669302036449#c4623814654389688250","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/orthodox-objectivisms-struggle-with.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5653237460847351328","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5653237460847351328","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11\/24\/2022 07:00:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6327873988007227116"},"published":{"$t":"2022-11-14T22:24:49.876-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-11-14T22:24:49.876-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"nice info!! thanks\nvisit mine: muhammad solehuddin..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"nice info!! thanks\u003Cbr \/\u003Evisit mine: \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/uhamka.ac.id\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Emuhammad solehuddin\u003C\/a\u003E https:\/\/uhamka.ac.id\/"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3543368198274476489\/comments\/default\/6327873988007227116"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3543368198274476489\/comments\/default\/6327873988007227116"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/top-ten-philosophy-books.html?showComment=1668493489876#c6327873988007227116","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"muhammad solehuddin"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/top-ten-philosophy-books.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3543368198274476489","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3543368198274476489","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11\/14\/2022 10:24:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5885385724393797035"},"published":{"$t":"2022-09-28T04:05:04.985-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-09-28T04:05:04.985-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Another way to look at this is that Binswanger rep..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Another way to look at this is that Binswanger represents a faction of Objectivists that claims Rand didn\u0026#39;t - and couldn\u0026#39;t - have any serious character flaws because she was a \u0026quot;fully integrated person.\u0026quot;  Her life mirrored her works.  Also, I haven\u0026#39;t heard Binswanger say it was wrong for the ARI to rewrite her posthumously printed material. Binswanger produced a posthumous work (the workshops in ITOE Revised edition).  Burns doesn\u0026#39;t say one way or the other whether these transcripts have been rewritten.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6568234920378499773\/comments\/default\/5885385724393797035"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6568234920378499773\/comments\/default\/5885385724393797035"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/09\/an-epistemological-quandry.html?showComment=1664363104985#c5885385724393797035","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/09\/an-epistemological-quandry.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6568234920378499773","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6568234920378499773","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/28\/2022 04:05:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4747303045415592912"},"published":{"$t":"2022-09-11T15:31:11.302-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-09-11T15:31:11.302-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Organized Objectivism would have gone away by now ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Organized Objectivism would have gone away by now if it hadn\u0026#39;t been kept in business artificially thanks to subsidies from some wealthy Rand obsessives. Also Rand\u0026#39;s novels are not as authentically popular as her fans claim, considering that the Ayn Rand Institute has bought and given away over 4 million copies of her works as part of its essay-writing contests. It\u0026#39;s like Directive 10-289 in \u003Ci\u003EAtlas Shrugged\u003C\/i\u003E established a combined Balph Eubank\/Simon Pritchett Institute to keep Eubank\u0026#39;s unwanted novels in print and forcing young people to read them, and reinforced by indoctrinating them with Pritchett\u0026#39;s bad philosophy. "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3376170604046645451\/comments\/default\/4747303045415592912"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3376170604046645451\/comments\/default\/4747303045415592912"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/09\/objectivist-round-up-september-2022.html?showComment=1662935471302#c4747303045415592912","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Albionic American"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07863146943953471221"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/09\/objectivist-round-up-september-2022.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3376170604046645451","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3376170604046645451","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1881752841"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/11\/2022 03:31:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8322419019841706594"},"published":{"$t":"2022-09-11T15:20:49.145-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-09-11T15:20:49.145-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Objectivists are also doubling down on empirically..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Objectivists are also doubling down on empirically false views of human behavior. Notice that they don\u0026#39;t talk about how tribally-oriented people can flourish as entrepreneurs and capitalists, like the South Asian immigrants in the United States who own and run hotels and other businesses. These people are still generally religious, family-oriented and endogamous (apparently for caste reasons); they aren\u0026#39;t living at all like Rand\u0026#39;s fantasy of atheistic atomized individualists.  "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3376170604046645451\/comments\/default\/8322419019841706594"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3376170604046645451\/comments\/default\/8322419019841706594"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/09\/objectivist-round-up-september-2022.html?showComment=1662934849145#c8322419019841706594","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Albionic American"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07863146943953471221"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/09\/objectivist-round-up-september-2022.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3376170604046645451","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3376170604046645451","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1881752841"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/11\/2022 03:20:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7248418877649955765"},"published":{"$t":"2022-09-10T10:52:04.282-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-09-10T10:52:04.282-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I think Rand did her mature thinking in the 50s du..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I think Rand did her mature thinking in the 50s during the high tide of behaviorism and after WW II when the idea of a biological basis for behavior understandably got a bad name."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3376170604046645451\/comments\/default\/7248418877649955765"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3376170604046645451\/comments\/default\/7248418877649955765"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/09\/objectivist-round-up-september-2022.html?showComment=1662832324282#c7248418877649955765","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/09\/objectivist-round-up-september-2022.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3376170604046645451","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3376170604046645451","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/10\/2022 10:52:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2575359717185626499"},"published":{"$t":"2022-09-08T11:56:24.095-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-09-08T11:56:24.095-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Does the end of JARS signify that interest in Rand..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Does the end of JARS signify that interest in Rand and Objectivism is on the wane? We don\u0026#39;t have any hard data on this, and of course the end of JARS could be merely that Chris Sciabarra has tired of being its editor. But even so, why isn\u0026#39;t there someone to fill Sciabarra\u0026#39;s shoes and keep the journal going? No such person exists --- which tells us what? I would suggest that the end of JARS indicates, not so much a waning of interest in Rand, but quite possibly a waning of interest in the philosophy of Objectivism. Let\u0026#39;s face it: Objectivism nowadas comes off as hopelessly out-dated. Rand\u0026#39;s blank slate philosophy is so 1950s. It\u0026#39;s hard to take such a view seriously after the rise of the evolutionary psychology of Pinker and the social psychology of Jonathan Haidt. But Rand\u0026#39;s novels, particularly \u003Ci\u003EAtlas Shrugged\u003C\/i\u003E and \u003Ci\u003EThe Fountainhead\u003C\/i\u003E, still get read and still have their fans. But most of these fans prefer to ignore the finer philosophical points in these books, because they just don\u0026#39;t have much relevance any more."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3376170604046645451\/comments\/default\/2575359717185626499"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3376170604046645451\/comments\/default\/2575359717185626499"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/09\/objectivist-round-up-september-2022.html?showComment=1662663384095#c2575359717185626499","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/09\/objectivist-round-up-september-2022.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3376170604046645451","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3376170604046645451","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/08\/2022 11:56:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6592072426706285391"},"published":{"$t":"2022-08-27T12:40:24.056-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-08-27T12:40:24.056-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I didn\u0026#39;t read the whole text, only the beginni..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I didn\u0026#39;t read the whole text, only the beginning. I had to laugh when I read this passage: \u0026quot;4] The term fountainhead is rarely used. I’ve used the term fuel injector more than a few times in my life, but I never used the term fountainhead.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Here is Hitler, the architect, using the term fountainhead in Mein Kampf.[...] Therefore, early marriages should be the rule, because thus the young couple will still have that pristine force which is the fountainhead of a healthy posterity with unimpaired powers of resistance\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOf course Hitler never used the term \u0026quot;fountainhead\u0026quot;, after all he wrote in German: \u0026quot;Daher schon ist die frühe Heirat richtig. gibt die doch der jungen Ehe noch jene Kraft, aus der allein ein gesunder und widerstandsfähiger Nachwuchs zu kommen vermag.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe English translation is not bad, but it is necessarily somewhat free. A more literal (but clumsier) translation would be: \u0026quot;Therefore, an early marriage is a good thing, as only that can give the young marriage that force that makes a healthy and resistant offspring possible.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs you can see, nothing resembling a \u0026quot;fountainhead\u0026quot;, so the insinuation that Rand plagiarizes here Hitler (\u0026quot;the architect\u0026quot;, hint! hint!) is rather absurd. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Hitler used the term fountainhead 18 years before Rand. Incredible.\u0026quot; Sure, incredible, as he didn\u0026#39;t do anything like that. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDragonfly"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7316975451509676704\/comments\/default\/6592072426706285391"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7316975451509676704\/comments\/default\/6592072426706285391"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/07\/objectivist-round-up-august-2022.html?showComment=1661629224056#c6592072426706285391","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/07\/objectivist-round-up-august-2022.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7316975451509676704","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7316975451509676704","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"8\/27\/2022 12:40:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5835029900038251687"},"published":{"$t":"2022-08-23T19:00:44.340-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-08-23T19:00:44.340-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Well, here\u0026#39;s an interesting close reading, by,..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Well, here\u0026#39;s an interesting close reading, by, let us say, an amateur.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Ayn Rand Plagiarized Adolf Hitler\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.renegadetribune.com\/ayn-rand-plagiarized-adolf-hitler\/"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7316975451509676704\/comments\/default\/5835029900038251687"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7316975451509676704\/comments\/default\/5835029900038251687"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/07\/objectivist-round-up-august-2022.html?showComment=1661306444340#c5835029900038251687","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anton P."},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/07\/objectivist-round-up-august-2022.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7316975451509676704","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7316975451509676704","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"8\/23\/2022 07:00:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3770404059445636305"},"published":{"$t":"2022-08-19T21:16:46.865-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-08-19T21:16:46.865-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Loved reading this, thank you"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Loved reading this, thank you"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/8346777219463372736\/comments\/default\/3770404059445636305"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/8346777219463372736\/comments\/default\/3770404059445636305"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/ayn-rand-human-nature-23.html?showComment=1660969006865#c3770404059445636305","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Maid Service Bowling Green"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.local-maid-service.com\/us\/housekeeping-services-kentucky\/maid-service-bowling-green.shtml"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/ayn-rand-human-nature-23.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8346777219463372736","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/8346777219463372736","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"8\/19\/2022 09:16:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1807110779906520978"},"published":{"$t":"2022-07-27T20:01:13.318-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-07-27T20:01:13.318-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Albionic American said, \u0026quot;Or even white nation..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Albionic American said, \u0026quot;Or even white nationalist.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELa Brickell was in no danger of being pulled in that direction. Perfecting a \u0026quot;more gentile than thou\u0026quot; act was her life\u0026#39;s ambition, and it seems that she satisfactorily achieved it at last. Or did she? When fortunes wane, and the snow melts, might we see a new incarnation in the form of a Christian tub-thumper? Only time will tell."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4247588924319176131\/comments\/default\/1807110779906520978"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4247588924319176131\/comments\/default\/1807110779906520978"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/07\/objectivist-roundup-july-2020.html?showComment=1658977273318#c1807110779906520978","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Filip de Philip"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/07\/objectivist-roundup-july-2020.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4247588924319176131","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4247588924319176131","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/27\/2022 08:01:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4253375336447884230"},"published":{"$t":"2022-07-27T07:38:15.877-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-07-27T07:38:15.877-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;Sacrosanct\u0026quot; ... They keep giving ammuni..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;Sacrosanct\u0026quot; ... They keep giving ammunition to the sort of people who liken abortion to Moloch-worship, don\u0026#39;t they? I am thinking, for example, of those memes where infants are presented to Baal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat is the psychological reality? Do many women regard their abortion as a religious sacrament? That doesn\u0026#39;t seem likely. To whom is ARI appealing?"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4247588924319176131\/comments\/default\/4253375336447884230"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4247588924319176131\/comments\/default\/4253375336447884230"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/07\/objectivist-roundup-july-2020.html?showComment=1658932695877#c4253375336447884230","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Shiny"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/07\/objectivist-roundup-july-2020.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4247588924319176131","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4247588924319176131","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/27\/2022 07:38:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4354627638307731902"},"published":{"$t":"2022-07-16T03:48:30.117-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-07-16T03:48:30.117-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"This is one area where Rand is superior to her fol..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"This is one area where Rand is superior to her followers. Once in a while she had the ability to ignore her philosophy on the grounds of personal judgment: in this case, a judgment arising out the common sense notion that someone who has achieved some in the real world, outside the confines of Objectivism, is deserving of respect and therefore should be cut some slack.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.faisalabadfabricstore.com\/buy-blank-t-shirts-in-bulk\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Ebulk cotton tee shirts\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.faisalabadfabricstore.com\/buy-blank-t-shirts-in-bulk\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Ebulk blank clothing\u003C\/a\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3387653365554419591\/comments\/default\/4354627638307731902"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3387653365554419591\/comments\/default\/4354627638307731902"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/compromising-on-her-philosophy.html?showComment=1657968510117#c4354627638307731902","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/compromising-on-her-philosophy.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3387653365554419591","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3387653365554419591","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/16\/2022 03:48:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7815988196212572717"},"published":{"$t":"2022-07-16T03:47:16.716-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-07-16T03:47:16.716-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"On the other hand, in classic pedantic style, Obje..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"On the other hand, in classic pedantic style, Objectivists have told us what \u0026#39;proper\u0026#39; 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Yet if Rand is not a partaker of the Tragic Vision, does this mean she partakes of the Utopian Vision? That will be a question addressed in my next post.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.faisalabadfabricstore.com\/buy-blank-t-shirts-in-bulk\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Ebuy bulk t shirts canada\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.faisalabadfabricstore.com\/buy-blank-t-shirts-in-bulk\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Echeap bulk t shirts canada\u003C\/a\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1181980272794699189\/comments\/default\/6687981935242660902"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1181980272794699189\/comments\/default\/6687981935242660902"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/objectivism-politics-part-53.html?showComment=1657968160660#c6687981935242660902","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"pure cotton bedsheet king size"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.thecollectionmarts.com\/product-category\/high-quality-bedsheets\/"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/objectivism-politics-part-53.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1181980272794699189","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1181980272794699189","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/16\/2022 03:42:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-9113538781120895702"},"published":{"$t":"2022-07-06T05:13:38.461-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-07-06T05:13:38.461-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I don’t know of any studies, but most Objectivists..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EI don’t know of any studies, but most Objectivists who leave the movement seem to turn libertarian or conservative.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr even white nationalist:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/counter-currents.com\/2015\/11\/a-sense-of-life\/"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4247588924319176131\/comments\/default\/9113538781120895702"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4247588924319176131\/comments\/default\/9113538781120895702"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/07\/objectivist-roundup-july-2020.html?showComment=1657109618461#c9113538781120895702","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Albionic American"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07863146943953471221"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/07\/objectivist-roundup-july-2020.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4247588924319176131","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4247588924319176131","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1881752841"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/06\/2022 05:13:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6161177972171832198"},"published":{"$t":"2022-06-25T08:29:44.033-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-06-25T08:29:44.033-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;Enlightenment\u0026quot; is agreement with Kant.\n..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;Enlightenment\u0026quot; is agreement with Kant.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Tutelage\u0026quot; is disagreement with Kant.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThink for yourself and agree with Kant, Rand----or me!\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3218554657383994127\/comments\/default\/6161177972171832198"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3218554657383994127\/comments\/default\/6161177972171832198"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/06\/guessing-game.html?showComment=1656170984033#c6161177972171832198","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/06\/guessing-game.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3218554657383994127","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3218554657383994127","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/25\/2022 08:29:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1131599107435541927"},"published":{"$t":"2022-06-25T06:22:43.932-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-06-25T06:22:43.932-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Psychotherapist Gena Gorlin\u0026#39;s appearance at OC..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Psychotherapist Gena Gorlin\u0026#39;s appearance at OCON 2022 amuses me. This woman doesn\u0026#39;t even look 30 years old, yet despite her lack of life experience, apparently she thinks she has the authority to tell other people how to live.  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(Kant verify this though.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3218554657383994127\/comments\/default\/4340571884756133794"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3218554657383994127\/comments\/default\/4340571884756133794"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/06\/guessing-game.html?showComment=1656154785457#c4340571884756133794","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/06\/guessing-game.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3218554657383994127","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3218554657383994127","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/25\/2022 03:59:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7382325501950646077"},"published":{"$t":"2022-06-24T22:10:22.423-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-06-24T22:10:22.423-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Immanuel Kant wrote that, of course. \n\nWhich goes ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Immanuel Kant wrote that, of course. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhich goes to show Rand\u0026#39;s inadequate reading in general. In a way, Rand did not fit the stereotype about intellectual Jewish immigrants to the United States, and their similarly-minded children, who stuffed their homes with all the books they could afford, and then read those books and discussed their ideas enthusiastically. I have trouble imagining that Rand could have given a competent lecture about a great work in Western philosophy, like Plato\u0026#39;s \u003Ci\u003ERepublic\u003C\/i\u003E, for example. Her inadequate study of Western philosophy didn\u0026#39;t stop her from making authoritative-sounding pronouncements about all kinds things she didn\u0026#39;t really know that much about, however.    "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3218554657383994127\/comments\/default\/7382325501950646077"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3218554657383994127\/comments\/default\/7382325501950646077"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/06\/guessing-game.html?showComment=1656133822423#c7382325501950646077","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Albionic American"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07863146943953471221"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/06\/guessing-game.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3218554657383994127","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3218554657383994127","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1881752841"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/24\/2022 10:10:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-9148081877604054293"},"published":{"$t":"2022-06-19T10:29:42.376-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-06-19T10:29:42.376-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"A is A is the beginning of wisdom----\n\nbut not the..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"A is A is the beginning of wisdom----\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ebut not the END!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4909475873979054804\/comments\/default\/9148081877604054293"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4909475873979054804\/comments\/default\/9148081877604054293"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/06\/objectivist-roundup-june-2022.html?showComment=1655659782376#c9148081877604054293","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/06\/objectivist-roundup-june-2022.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4909475873979054804","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4909475873979054804","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/19\/2022 10:29:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5981512898690224699"},"published":{"$t":"2022-06-16T19:01:17.682-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-06-16T19:01:17.682-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"In some quarters Miss Rand has created a terrifyin..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In some quarters Miss Rand has created a terrifying public image of herself because of her condemnation of unselfishness. But what she really means is that one should not sacrifice oneself for anyone or anything that is morally unworthy or degrading—to which none can object but saints. When we do act to relieve the distress of others or to help them, if our reason does not veto the action, Miss Rand refuses by semantic fiat to call the action altruistic or unselfish. I am confident that even at some danger to herself Miss Rand would not rush out of a burning building and leave a helpless child behind. Nor would she give the child and intelligence test before she sought to rescue it. But she reuses to call such an action unselfish because she falls back on the truism that every voluntary choice is a choice of the self, which she mistakes as an act for oneself. Despite her ferocious tone on this point, Miss Rand is a paper tigress. She is a principled opponent of Hitler and all totalitarians on the ground that it is they who expect men to sacrifice themselves to an abstraction.\u003Cbr \/\u003ELogically there is little difference between always recommending a policy of rational selfishness and one of rational unselfishness. Ethically both are inadequate because commitments of this general sort cannot function as guides in choosing conflicting goods and rights. It is enough to settle, in John Erskine’s phrase, for the moral obligation to be intelligent.\u003Cbr \/\u003EAyn Rand’s third proposition about the high morality of capitalism is defended by a very old gambit: like Christianity, capitalism has never been tried! “All the evils popularly ascribed to capitalism were caused, necessitated and made possible only by government controls imposed on the economy.” Disregarding the scandalous looseness of the language, one is appalled by the reckless disregard of historic fact. For example, the horrible forms of child labor which sprang up with the industrial revolution were certainly not caused by government controls. On the contrary, they were eliminated by government controls.\u003Cbr \/\u003EMiss Rand’s conception of free enterprise is so extreme that it is safe to predict she will be a serious embarrassment to many of its defenders. Her notions of the proper function of government would turn over even our roads and schools to private hands, abolish all health services, and let the unemployed rot. She has no use for historical materialism but invokes its dogmas in her claim that all public ownership necessarily is destructive of political and cultural freedom, which is logically a non sequitur and historically false. Marx’ indictment of capitalism, that “it has degraded personal dignity to the level of exchange value,” she hails as its chief moral virtue, and sees justice, not degradation, in putting a money value on all things.\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne does not have to be a professional philosopher to write an interesting book on philosophy, but it cannot be done by substituting denunciation for analysis and mouthing slogans instead of considering problems. Just as not all who cry “Peace! Peace!” mean it, not all who cry “Reason! Reason!” use it. The language of reason does not justify references to economists with whom one disagrees as “frantic cowards,” or to philosophers as “intellectual hoodlums who pose as professors.” This is the way philosophy is written in the Soviet Union. In a free culture there must always be room for vigorous polemic and controversy but civility of mind is integral to the concept of a civilized society.\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4909475873979054804\/comments\/default\/5981512898690224699"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4909475873979054804\/comments\/default\/5981512898690224699"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/06\/objectivist-roundup-june-2022.html?showComment=1655431277682#c5981512898690224699","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/06\/objectivist-roundup-june-2022.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4909475873979054804","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4909475873979054804","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/16\/2022 07:01:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1821257848044898150"},"published":{"$t":"2022-06-16T19:01:00.936-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-06-16T19:01:00.936-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"After singing Aristotle’s praises as the world’s f..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"After singing Aristotle’s praises as the world’s first intellectual, whose thought is the source of all our freedom, Miss Rand is capable of writing—and in italics, too—“a free mind and a free market are corollaries”—which would locate Aristotle in limbo rather than in Athens. To do her justice, Miss Rand is resolutely opposed to a free market in which human beings are chattels, although she fails to see that this is perfectly compatible with the laws of logic, physics and biology. She is also opposed to the initial use of physical force in human affairs, but sees nothing wrong in the use of economic power to coerce men by starving them.\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn places Miss Rand suggests that all human beings are by nature inescapably egoistic—a psychological proposition which if true would make her ethical principle pointless. If man by his very nature always seeks his own interest, there is not much point in urging this course of action upon him as a moral duty (though he might be encouraged to improve upon nature and act more selfishly). But as psychology it is clearly false. It rests upon confusing the satisfaction one gets in gratifying any desire, selfish or unselfish, with the object or end of the desire which gives an act its moral quality.\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs for the ethical theory of egoism, Miss Rand does not really mean that anything desired by any self is good or that others should be sacrificed to oneself. She advocates “a rational egoism” directed not to mean and vulgar goals, but as affecting others, only to persons recognized as ends. Here Miss Rand does herself an injustice by the vehement unclarity of her writing. Her egoism is not lax and hedonistic but instead severe. “Happiness is possible only to rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goods, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.”\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the ordinary sense of these words, the statement is simply false. It is truer to say that in much wisdom there is much grief. But Miss Rand rarely uses words in their ordinary sense. She makes the rational man sound like a calculating monster or a perpetual trader, even in the realm of the spirit. She is unaware of the ambiguities of the term “rational,” and her most frequent use is more consonant with the superstitions of faculty psychology than with modern scientific thought.\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4909475873979054804\/comments\/default\/1821257848044898150"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4909475873979054804\/comments\/default\/1821257848044898150"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/06\/objectivist-roundup-june-2022.html?showComment=1655431260936#c1821257848044898150","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/06\/objectivist-roundup-june-2022.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4909475873979054804","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4909475873979054804","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/16\/2022 07:01:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7866676967679139922"},"published":{"$t":"2022-06-16T19:00:26.563-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-06-16T19:00:26.563-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"AYN RAND’S PHILOSOPHY: EACH MAN FOR HIMSELF\nBy Sid..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"AYN RAND’S PHILOSOPHY: EACH MAN FOR HIMSELF\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy Sidney Hook\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is a daring writer who uses the novel primarily as a vehicle for philosophical ideas. Ayn Rand, author of “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged,” regards herself as much a philosopher as a novelist. This is not her only distinction. A dissenter among our current hosts of dissenters, she has made them gag, and shocked them into a healthy awareness that dissent as such has no more virtue than assent. Her ideas have enraged many and at the same time won her a devoted following who are less critical than one would expect of worshipers of reason.\u003Cbr \/\u003EMiss Rand’s new book is made up of philosophical excerpts from her novels and a long essay on a new philosophy for the New Intellectual. She defines the New Intellectual as “any man or woman who is willing to think,” and offers this outline of her “objectivist” system for their consideration.\u003Cbr \/\u003EPruned of its repetitions, her philosophy reduces itself to three main contentions. The first is that “all the disasters that have wrecked the world” can be traced to a disregard of the Aristotelian laws of logic, especially the law of identity, A is A. This law is not only the cornerstone of reason but the rule of all knowledge. The second thesis locates the poisoned premise of all modern ethical theory and practice in the principle of altruism, in the belief that “man exists for the pleasure of others.” The third is that capitalism and the free market are the highest expression of human reason and justice; any limitation upon them opens the floodgates of irrationalism, mysticism and force. The book is written with passionate fervor, more in the style of a prophetess of a cult than in the analytic vein of a philosopher. Despite the great play with the word “Reason,” one is struck by the absence of any serious argument in this unique combination of tautology and extravagant absurdity.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince his baptism in medieval times, Aristotle has served many strange purposes. None have been odder than this sacramental alliance, so to speak, of Aristotle with Adam Smith. The extraordinary virtues Miss Rand finds in the law that A is A suggests the she is unaware that logical principles by themselves can test only consistency. They cannot establish truth. Inconsistency is a sign of falsity, but as the existence of consistent liars and paranoiacs indicates, non-consistency is never a sufficient condition of truth. Swearing fidelity to Aristotle, Miss Rand claims to deduce not only matters of fact from logic but with as little warranty ethical rules and economic truths as well. As she understands them, the laws of logic license her in proclaiming “existence exists,” which is vey much like saying that the law of gravitation is heavy and the formula of sugar sweet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4909475873979054804\/comments\/default\/7866676967679139922"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4909475873979054804\/comments\/default\/7866676967679139922"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/06\/objectivist-roundup-june-2022.html?showComment=1655431226563#c7866676967679139922","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/06\/objectivist-roundup-june-2022.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4909475873979054804","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4909475873979054804","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/16\/2022 07:00:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5383069921078342928"},"published":{"$t":"2022-06-10T02:44:20.480-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-06-10T02:44:20.480-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Democracy The God That Failed by Hans Hermann Hopp..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Democracy The God That Failed by Hans Hermann Hoppe\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe much cherished modem view, according to which the adoption of \u0026quot;constitutional government\u0026quot; represents a major civilizational advance from arbitrary government to the rule of law and which attributes to the United States a prominent or even preeminent role in this historical breakthrough, then, must be considered seriously flawed. This view is obviously contradicted by documents such as the Magna Carta(1215) or the Golden Bull(1356). More importantly, it misrepresents the nature of premodem governments. Such governments either entirely lacked the most arbitrary and tyrannical of all powers, i.e., the power to tax and legislate without consent; or even if they did possess these powers, governments were severely restricted in exercising them because such powers were widely regarded as illegitimate, i.e., as usurped rather than justly acquired. In distinct contrast, modem governments are defined by the fact that the powers to tax and legislate are recognized explicitly as legitimate; that is, all \u0026quot;constitutional\u0026quot; governments, whether in the U.S. or anywhere else, constitute state-governments. Robert Nisbet is thus correct in noting that a pre-modem\u003Cbr \/\u003E“king may have ruled at times with a degree of irresponsibility that few modem governmental officials can enjoy, but it is doubtful whether, in terms of effective powers and services, any king of even the seventeenth-century \u0026quot;absolute monarchies\u0026quot; wielded the kind of authority that now inheres in the office of many high-ranking officials in the democracies. There were then too many social barriers between the claimed power of the monarch and the effective execution of this power over individuals. The very prestige and functional importance of church, family, gild, and local community as allegiances limited the absoluteness of the State\u0026#39;s power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7878766946398051135\/comments\/default\/5383069921078342928"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7878766946398051135\/comments\/default\/5383069921078342928"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/taking-ideas-seriously.html?showComment=1654854260480#c5383069921078342928","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/taking-ideas-seriously.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7878766946398051135","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7878766946398051135","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/10\/2022 02:44:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4609536399491017169"},"published":{"$t":"2022-06-10T02:42:13.832-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-06-10T02:42:13.832-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Democracy The God That Failed by Hans Hermann Hopp..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Democracy The God That Failed by Hans Hermann Hoppe\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter more than two centuries of \u0026quot;constitutionally limited government,\u0026quot; the results are clear and incontrovertible. At the outset of the American \u0026quot;experiment,\u0026quot; the tax burden imposed on Americans was light, indeed almost negligible. Money consisted of fixed quantities of gold and silver. The definition of private property was clear and seemingly immutable, and the right to self-defense was regarded as sacrosanct. No standing army existed, and, as expressed in Washington\u0026#39;s Farewell Address, a firm commitment to free trade and a noninterventionist foreign policy appeared to be in place. Two hundred years later, matters have changed dramatically.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow, year in and year out the American government expropriates more than 40 percent of the incomes of private producers, making even the economic burden imposed on slaves and serfs seem moderate in comparison. Gold and silver have been replaced by government-manufactured paper money, and Americans are being robbed continually through money inflation. The meaning of private property, once seemingly clear and fixed, has become obscure, flexible, and fluid. In fact, every detail of private life, property, trade, and contract is regulated and reregulated by ever higher mountains of paper laws (legislation), and with increasing legislation, ever more legal uncertainty and moral hazards have been created, and lawlessness has replaced law and order. Last but not least, the commitment to free trade and noninterventionism has given way to a policy of protectionism, militarism, and imperialism. In fact, almost since its beginnings the U.S. government has engaged in relentless aggressive expansionism and, starting with the Spanish-American War and continuing past World War I and World War n to the present, the U.s. has become entangled in hundreds of foreign conflicts and risen to the rank of the world\u0026#39;s foremost warmonger and imperialist power. In addition, while American citizens have become increasingly more defenseless, insecure, and impoverished, and foreigners all over the globe have become ever more threatened and bullied by U.S. military power, American presidents, members of Congress, and Supreme Court judges have become ever more arrogant, morally corrupt, and dangerous.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFirst, the American Constitution must be recognized for what it is-an error. As the Declaration of Independence noted, government is supposed to protect life, property, and the pursuit of happiness. Yet in granting government the power to tax and legislate without consent, the Constitution cannot possibly assure this goal but is instead the very instrument for invading and destroying the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is absurd to believe that an agency which may tax without consent can be a property protector. Likewise, it is absurd to believe that an agency with legislative powers can preserve law and order. Rather, it must be recognized that the Constitution is itself unconstitutional, i.e., incompatible with the very doctrine of natural human rights that inspired the American Revolution. Indeed, no one in his right mind would agree to a contract that allowed one\u0026#39;s alleged protector to determine unilaterally—without one\u0026#39;s consent—and irrevocably—without the possibility of exit—how much to charge for protection; and no one in his right mind would agree to an irrevocable contract which granted one\u0026#39;s alleged protector the right to ultimate decision making regarding one\u0026#39;s own person and property, i.e., of unilateral lawmaking. 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Read, the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education in 1946, used to say that Americans live in a country in which various levels of government extract over 40% of their productivity, yet they call this system freedom. “They don’t know the difference between freedom and coercion.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPareto law apply to freedom -- 80% of people want safety not freedom, they want \u0026quot;free\u0026quot; goodies and salvation by new god --nation state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESuffrage Debate, N.Y. Constitutional Convention of 1821\u003Cbr \/\u003EChancellor James Kent\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe tendency of universal suffrage, is to jeopardize the rights of property, and the principles of liberty.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe notion that every man that works a day on the road, or serves an idle hour in the militia, is entitled as of right to an equal participation in the whole power of the government, is most unreasonable, and has no foundation in justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethe individual who contributes only one cent to the common stock, ought not to have the same power and influence in directing the property concerns of the partnership, as he who contributes his thousands.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKarl Marx concluded much the same, except that he favored the abolition of the property qualification for voting, precisely because it would destroy private property: “. . . the state as a state abolishes private property (i.e., man decrees by political means the abolition of private property) when it abolishes the property qualification for electors and representatives. . . . Is not private property ideally abolished when the non-owner comes to legislate for the owner of property? The property qualification is the last political form in which property is recognized.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr 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better than thei..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Some people like their phenotypes better than their genotypes!"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1672595472012858284\/comments\/default\/7149222168641092570"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1672595472012858284\/comments\/default\/7149222168641092570"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/05\/objectivist-roundup-may-2022.html?showComment=1652635777212#c7149222168641092570","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/05\/objectivist-roundup-may-2022.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1672595472012858284","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1672595472012858284","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/15\/2022 10:29:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4783586639837834353"},"published":{"$t":"2022-05-15T01:22:45.922-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-05-15T01:22:45.922-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Well, okay then, but that essentially just buttres..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003EWell, okay then, but that essentially just buttresses what I said. Simply having a family isn\u0026#39;t sufficient to flourish, they have to value and look out for their members.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne could argue that Rand herself flourished, after a fashion, and for a time. (Ultimately all people stop flourishing.) She was, if not immensely wealthy, at least well-to-do, she had a social network of supporters that respected and fawned upon her, she was able to have an affair with a younger man and yet keep her marriage, and perhaps she didn\u0026#39;t raise any descendants to carry on her legacy (leaving that to acolytes), but then she therefore couldn\u0026#39;t wind up disappointed if any of them became \u0026quot;moochers\u0026quot;.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt all depends on what one values in life, and while traditionalists might well see family as some universal marker for goodness, we can\u0026#39;t expect all persons to share such a view. A serial killer who repeatedly kills and doesn\u0026#39;t get caught or prevented might well be living their best life, at least as they see it, regardless of how it impacts or horrifies others."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1672595472012858284\/comments\/default\/4783586639837834353"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1672595472012858284\/comments\/default\/4783586639837834353"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/05\/objectivist-roundup-may-2022.html?showComment=1652602965922#c4783586639837834353","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/05\/objectivist-roundup-may-2022.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1672595472012858284","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1672595472012858284","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/15\/2022 01:22:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4099286912322987644"},"published":{"$t":"2022-05-14T23:05:56.543-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-05-14T23:05:56.543-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026#39; Does a family under the poverty line \u0026quot;f..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026#39; Does a family under the poverty line \u0026quot;flourish\u0026quot;? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI come from a long line of poor white Southerners, and I\u0026#39;d say yes. Flourishing involves more than material conditions, but also on \u0026quot;spiritual\u0026quot; conditions which depend on belonging to functional families and tribes which value their members and look out for their interests. You don\u0026#39;t have to believe in religious woo-woo to see that calling a population materially poor but spiritually rich, or at least spiritually adequate, actually makes sense.   "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1672595472012858284\/comments\/default\/4099286912322987644"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1672595472012858284\/comments\/default\/4099286912322987644"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/05\/objectivist-roundup-may-2022.html?showComment=1652594756543#c4099286912322987644","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Albionic American"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07863146943953471221"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/05\/objectivist-roundup-may-2022.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1672595472012858284","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1672595472012858284","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1881752841"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/14\/2022 11:05:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3489714127284490689"},"published":{"$t":"2022-05-14T21:10:54.800-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-05-14T21:10:54.800-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I guess if by \u0026quot;human\u0026quot; you refer to the s..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I guess if by \u0026quot;human\u0026quot; you refer to the spreading of the species and not some benefit of\/to the individual, making babies would qualify as a measure of \u0026quot;flourishing\u0026quot;. Otherwise, I can\u0026#39;t see that starting families is automatically \u0026quot;flourishing\u0026quot;. Does a family under the poverty line \u0026quot;flourish\u0026quot;? Do dysfunctional or abusive family situations qualify as \u0026quot;flourishing\u0026quot; so long as they reproduce sufficiently?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn fact, if you just enter \u0026quot;human flourishing\u0026quot; into Google, the definition you\u0026#39;re likely to glean is some state where one person\u0026#39;s life is in all ways good - which, of course, may not mean a family at all, depending on one\u0026#39;s viewpoint.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGranted, not conceiving and then rearing\/indoctrinating a significant quantity of little Objectivists doesn\u0026#39;t help the *philosophy* flourish, but that\u0026#39;s a separate matter from human flourishing, I think."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1672595472012858284\/comments\/default\/3489714127284490689"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1672595472012858284\/comments\/default\/3489714127284490689"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/05\/objectivist-roundup-may-2022.html?showComment=1652587854800#c3489714127284490689","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/05\/objectivist-roundup-may-2022.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1672595472012858284","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1672595472012858284","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/14\/2022 09:10:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2516139849644203499"},"published":{"$t":"2022-05-14T04:12:08.421-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-05-14T04:12:08.421-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Fundamentally Objectivism isn\u0026#39;t going to get a..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Fundamentally Objectivism isn\u0026#39;t going to get any traction in the culture, beyond the \u0026quot;very low ceiling\u0026quot; Nyquist mentions, because the Objectivists\u0026#39; model of \u0026quot;human flourishing\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#39;t work. Consider what human flourishing means in the most iteral and tangible sense: A state of affairs where young men pair up with young women in marriage to make babies and start families. Yet this ordinary reality is alien to Rand\u0026#39;s world view, and many of her followers have mindlessly followed her example of sterility. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThough not necessarily her example of sexual hedonism, because Objectivism won\u0026#39;t help a young man attract girlfriends if he is not able to do so in his default state, without this arbitrary ideology. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy contrast, to me it\u0026#39;s ironic that Rand\u0026#39;s main philosophical nemesis, other than Immanuel Kant, namely Karl Marx himself, married and a started a family. Apparently Marx and his wife, \u003Ci\u003Enee\u003C\/i\u003E Jenny von Westphalen, have a few living descendants now. And American Marxists were flourishing to some extent in the 1940\u0026#39;s and 1950\u0026#39;s, when Rand was writing her last two novels. I know a guy in his 70\u0026#39;s who claims that he was a \u0026quot;Red Diaper Baby,\u0026quot; namely, the child of an American couple who were members of the Communist Party."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1672595472012858284\/comments\/default\/2516139849644203499"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1672595472012858284\/comments\/default\/2516139849644203499"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/05\/objectivist-roundup-may-2022.html?showComment=1652526728421#c2516139849644203499","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Albionic 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that his break ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Incidentally, Rob Tracisnki denies that his break with the ARI was connected to \u0026quot;unresolved business issues.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/tracinskiletter.substack.com\/p\/schismatology?s=r\u003Cbr 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04:51:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7684140895707856481"},"published":{"$t":"2022-04-08T09:14:24.087-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-04-08T09:14:24.087-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I never married myself.\n\nI was afraid my kids woul..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I never married myself.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI was afraid my kids would turn out like Millie Bush!"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3104108889157546002\/comments\/default\/7684140895707856481"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3104108889157546002\/comments\/default\/7684140895707856481"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/objectivist-schisms-overview-by-neil.html?showComment=1649434464087#c7684140895707856481","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/objectivist-schisms-overview-by-neil.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3104108889157546002","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3104108889157546002","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/08\/2022 09:14:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8219105766096091826"},"published":{"$t":"2022-04-08T08:51:17.844-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-04-08T08:51:17.844-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\nRe Millie Bush.\n\nMake converts----not babies!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003ERe Millie Bush.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMake converts----not babies!"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3104108889157546002\/comments\/default\/8219105766096091826"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3104108889157546002\/comments\/default\/8219105766096091826"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/objectivist-schisms-overview-by-neil.html?showComment=1649433077844#c8219105766096091826","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/objectivist-schisms-overview-by-neil.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3104108889157546002","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3104108889157546002","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/08\/2022 08:51:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4292732259678778644"},"published":{"$t":"2022-04-07T19:25:55.185-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-04-07T19:25:55.185-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026gt;The Jesuits are \u0026quot;anti-natalist\u0026quot; but ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026gt;The Jesuits are \u0026quot;anti-natalist\u0026quot; but we never run out of Jesuits!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJesuits don\u0026#39;t propagandize lay Catholics that it is horrible to have children and form families. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERand herself, by contrast, did that in an unsubtle way, and many of her followers support that agenda implicitly. Even though Rand obsessives engage in nerd hermeneutics regarding just about every passage in Rand\u0026#39;s novels, their crimestop steers them away from discussing Rand\u0026#39;s repulsive portrayal of a little girl character named Millie Bush in \u003Ci\u003EAtlas Shrugged\u003C\/i\u003E, and what it shows about Rand\u0026#39;s real attitude towards children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBTW, even if we did \u0026quot;run out of Jesuits,\u0026quot; the people living afterwards would not notice their absence. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3104108889157546002\/comments\/default\/4292732259678778644"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3104108889157546002\/comments\/default\/4292732259678778644"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/objectivist-schisms-overview-by-neil.html?showComment=1649384755185#c4292732259678778644","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Albionic American"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07863146943953471221"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/objectivist-schisms-overview-by-neil.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3104108889157546002","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3104108889157546002","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1881752841"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/07\/2022 07:25:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-9113401998431425046"},"published":{"$t":"2022-04-04T07:34:08.974-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-04-04T07:34:08.974-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;Rand\u0026#39;s philosophy is \u0026#39;anti-natalist\u0026..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Rand\u0026#39;s philosophy is \u0026#39;anti-natalist\u0026#39;.......\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Jesuits are \u0026quot;anti-natalist\u0026quot; but we never run out of Jesuits!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI suspect that the Randists of the future will be Mormons who wanted to be only children."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3104108889157546002\/comments\/default\/9113401998431425046"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3104108889157546002\/comments\/default\/9113401998431425046"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/objectivist-schisms-overview-by-neil.html?showComment=1649082848974#c9113401998431425046","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/objectivist-schisms-overview-by-neil.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3104108889157546002","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3104108889157546002","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/04\/2022 07:34:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2933741832622711803"},"published":{"$t":"2022-04-02T10:47:09.805-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-04-02T10:47:09.805-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Objectivism as a coherent social movement is just ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Objectivism as a coherent social movement is just going to fail for reasons not unlike the reasons for the Disney corporation\u0026#39;s eventual failure: Rand\u0026#39;s philosophy is anti-natalist and ant-family, and it promotes high time preference sexual behavior, hence the recent prominence given to gays like Chris Sciabarra and Jason Hill in the subculture. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere are a few Objectivists with children out there, of course, but these parents look really out of place, because children require an investment into their future which has to come at the expense of selfish personal hedonism. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy contrast, organized belief systems which promote traditional sex roles, marriage and family formation are working with man\u0026#39;s nature to perpetuate themselves across the generations. That\u0026#39;s why, for example, Mormonism is probably going to be around hundreds of years from now, long after Rand cultism has vanished into the footnotes of history. "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3104108889157546002\/comments\/default\/2933741832622711803"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3104108889157546002\/comments\/default\/2933741832622711803"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/objectivist-schisms-overview-by-neil.html?showComment=1648921629805#c2933741832622711803","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Albionic American"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07863146943953471221"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/objectivist-schisms-overview-by-neil.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3104108889157546002","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3104108889157546002","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1881752841"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/02\/2022 10:47:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5940110538404181061"},"published":{"$t":"2022-04-02T04:52:25.254-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-04-02T04:52:25.254-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I wish I had read ARI Watch\u0026#39;s article on the M..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I wish I had read ARI Watch\u0026#39;s article on the McCaskey schim before I wrote the piece.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E1. McCaskey says that Peikoff (not the Board, as Brook claimed), gave him permission to publish the letter.  Peikoff confirms this.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E2. Peikoff, in an email after McCaskey resigned called him \u0026quot;an obnoxious braggart as a person, and a pretentious ignoramus as an intellectual.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E3. In Brook\u0026#39;s statement (perhaps in response to the above) wrote, \u0026quot;“presented the terms and timeline he expected ARI’s Board to meet in order to resolve the conflict. At all times, Dr. McCaskey’s unfavorable attitude toward this major ARI project and Dr. Peikoff’s view on the matter were THE ONLY ISSUES [emphasis added], not any personal views Dr. Peikoff had about Dr. McCaskey’s moral character.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGhate and Binswanger are then flat out wrong saying there were other factors involved.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E-NP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3104108889157546002\/comments\/default\/5940110538404181061"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3104108889157546002\/comments\/default\/5940110538404181061"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/objectivist-schisms-overview-by-neil.html?showComment=1648900345254#c5940110538404181061","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/objectivist-schisms-overview-by-neil.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3104108889157546002","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3104108889157546002","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/02\/2022 04:52:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1442251858094247072"},"published":{"$t":"2022-04-01T04:53:57.226-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-04-01T04:53:57.226-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":" “As a rule, one should be suspicious of the first..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":" “As a rule, one should be suspicious of the first side that goes public in a private dispute (or in the part of a dispute that is private).”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPeople who have come public accusing athletes of steroid use tend to be right a lot more than the athletes who deny.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnon1975"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3104108889157546002\/comments\/default\/1442251858094247072"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3104108889157546002\/comments\/default\/1442251858094247072"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/objectivist-schisms-overview-by-neil.html?showComment=1648814037226#c1442251858094247072","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01620185304906947376"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/objectivist-schisms-overview-by-neil.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3104108889157546002","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3104108889157546002","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1699884512"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/01\/2022 04:53:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5449646373755655573"},"published":{"$t":"2022-04-01T01:34:10.432-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-04-01T01:34:10.432-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"ARI Watch has a discussion of the McCaskey schism ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"ARI Watch has a discussion of the McCaskey schism and links to all the documents (some accessible via the wayback machine).  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttp:\/\/ariwatch.com\/WhosWho\/ARIvsJohnMcCaskey.htm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt\u0026#39;s funny, but The Logical Leap doesn\u0026#39;t seem to have made much of a splash in Objectivist circles.  It\u0026#39;s rarely mentioned.  Harriman (who since left the ARI) seemed important only in Peikoff\u0026#39;s eyes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E-NP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3104108889157546002\/comments\/default\/5449646373755655573"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3104108889157546002\/comments\/default\/5449646373755655573"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/objectivist-schisms-overview-by-neil.html?showComment=1648802050432#c5449646373755655573","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/objectivist-schisms-overview-by-neil.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3104108889157546002","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3104108889157546002","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/01\/2022 01:34:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8536865049631862890"},"published":{"$t":"2022-04-01T01:28:16.580-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-04-01T01:28:16.580-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"After I sent this to Greg, I read more closely my ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"After I sent this to Greg, I read more closely my second blog post on the McCaskey schism.  After McCaskey resigned and published Peikoff\u0026#39;s letter, many in the Objectivist world asked for the ARI\u0026#39;s version of events.  Contrary to what our authors imply, the ARI did respond. Here was Brook\u0026#39;s version of events (which has disappeared from the ARI\u0026#39;s website):\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;The substantive issue that Dr. Peikoff raised—whether a person who does not support a central ARI project should sit on the Board—was itself a very serious one. In addition, the Board had the practical, moral, and fiduciary responsibility to avoid needlessly damaging our important relationship with Dr. Peikoff. Dr. Peikoff founded ARI, served as its first Board chairman, and has continued to provide ARI with moral, financial, and practical support over the 25 years of ARI’s existence. As Ayn Rand’s heir, he has been very generous in giving Ayn Rand’s materials to the ARI Archives, with much more planned for the future. In these and many other ways, Dr. Peikoff’s ongoing support is important to ARI; we are certainly interested in hearing his thoughts and analyses, and we give them due weight in our deliberations.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENote Brook\u0026#39;s admission: the \u0026quot;substantive issue\u0026quot; was McCaskey\u0026#39;s failure to support the Harriman book and, as a result, the ARI caved to Peikoff\u0026#39;s demand.  Hence, contrary to our authors claim, third parties don\u0026#39;t necessarily need legal proceedings to come to a conclusion about the nature of a \u0026quot;private\u0026quot; dispute. It also shows, at least in this case, that it was the first person to come forward who turned out to be correct. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E-NP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3104108889157546002\/comments\/default\/8536865049631862890"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3104108889157546002\/comments\/default\/8536865049631862890"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/objectivist-schisms-overview-by-neil.html?showComment=1648801696580#c8536865049631862890","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/objectivist-schisms-overview-by-neil.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3104108889157546002","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3104108889157546002","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/01\/2022 01:28:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4497682055675517787"},"published":{"$t":"2022-03-23T17:51:45.330-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-03-23T17:51:45.330-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Degradation of Academic Dogma by Robert A. Nis..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The Degradation of Academic Dogma by Robert A. Nisbet\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll major institutions are built around dogmas. So, for that matter, is social life generally. We could not live without dogma, which is no more than a system of principles or ideals widely believed to be not merely true or right but also beyond the necessity of the more or less constant \u003Cbr \/\u003Everi­fication we feel obliged to give so many other aspects of our lives. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe word \u0026quot;dogma\u0026quot; comes from the Greek dokein which may be translated as \u0026quot;seem good.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo describe a belief as dogmatic does not necessarily imply that it cannot be \u0026quot;proved\u0026quot; through logic, reason, or evidence. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe essential point is that irrespective of the possibility of their rational or empirical verification the beliefs are widely re­garded as good or right without necessity of constant scru­tiny. And, as Tocqueville wrote, adding to the words quoted above, no society can even exist, much less prosper, without such common belief. Nor can any individual. For if each individual was compelled to demonstrate and redemonstrate to his own satisfaction each of the propositions he lives by, his obligation would never end. As Tocqueville notes, man would exhaust his strength in preparatory demonstrations without ever advancing beyond them. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo community, no organization, no institution, then, can exist for long without dogma; without a belief or set of be­liefs so deeply and widely held that it is more or less exempt from ordinary demands that its goodness or rightness be demonstrable at any given moment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4703807419274323499\/comments\/default\/4497682055675517787"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4703807419274323499\/comments\/default\/4497682055675517787"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/objectivism-on-christianity-and-religion.html?showComment=1648083105330#c4497682055675517787","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/objectivism-on-christianity-and-religion.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4703807419274323499","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4703807419274323499","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/23\/2022 05:51:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7055571983309052682"},"published":{"$t":"2022-03-23T17:45:43.857-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-03-23T17:45:43.857-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"R.J. Rushdoon:\nOur scripture this morning is Matth..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"R.J. Rushdoon:\u003Cbr \/\u003EOur scripture this morning is Matthew 7:1-6.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe tendency has been to take the first verse and apply that as a general principle without reference to verses two through six.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Everse six requires us to make some apparently drastic judgments.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s a sharp and a harsh statement. It means that we are going to have to assess some people as dogs and others as swine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow our Lord does not forbid judgment , all we have to do is to look at John 7:24, the clearest statement:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo our Lord tells us we are not to judge according to appearance but we are to judge righteous judgment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn other words, what is the measure, the standard, the yardstick of your judgment?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENothing can be measured without a standard of measurement. If the standard is wrong, everything else is then out of line. 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Studying the Bible and other supporting literature is WAY too much like school work to have mass appeal. 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I guess he doesn\u0026#39;t know that the eastern half (which was more Christian) survived until 1453.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4703807419274323499\/comments\/default\/4473929463473485609"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4703807419274323499\/comments\/default\/4473929463473485609"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/objectivism-on-christianity-and-religion.html?showComment=1643978663682#c4473929463473485609","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01248127824420059639"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/objectivism-on-christianity-and-religion.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4703807419274323499","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4703807419274323499","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-676389932"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"2\/04\/2022 04:44:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-603190440986742334"},"published":{"$t":"2022-02-03T08:50:34.866-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-02-03T08:50:34.866-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;The Greeks and the Irrational,\u0026quot; by E.R...."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;The Greeks and the Irrational,\u0026quot; by E.R. Dodds, is a classic work that Peikoff should have consulted if he actually wanted to understand Ancient Greece. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr he could have just read a little history. The Spartans sent only 300 warriors to Thermopylae because they were in the midst of a religious festival, during which it was illegal to wage war. Though they knew the Persians had made landfall and time was of the essence, they dared not violate their own religious precepts by mounting an all-out defense until the sacred period had expired. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPeikoff would probably dismiss the Spartans as outliers, but why are the Athenians privileged to be representative of the whole diverse culture of Greece? And why is Aristotle the preeminent example of that culture? Aristotle probably had less influence in his own day than Plato or the Cynics. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMore important, culture in Athens was defined primarily not by philosophy but art: the revered Homeric sagas and the dramatic  works of Sophocles and Aeschylus (less so, Euripides, who was considered dangerously anti-establishment in his day). These writings were steeped in religious ideas — Homer saw the gods as directing every important phase of earthly life (a god compels Achilles to clash with his superiors, precipitating the entire plot of The Iliad), while Sophocles was obsessed with the role of implacable Fate, as in the tragedy of Oedipus. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHistory is so much more complex, interesting, and nuanced than propagandists like Peikoff (or Rand) imagine. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4703807419274323499\/comments\/default\/603190440986742334"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4703807419274323499\/comments\/default\/603190440986742334"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/objectivism-on-christianity-and-religion.html?showComment=1643907034866#c603190440986742334","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Michael Prescott"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12963295565160636175"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_KbTmBB__5VI\/ScgM6p0vSyI\/AAAAAAAAABw\/BxDb4pVoqlA\/S220\/Portrait2005a.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/objectivism-on-christianity-and-religion.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4703807419274323499","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4703807419274323499","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1762907438"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"2\/03\/2022 08:50:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8716890135839276363"},"published":{"$t":"2022-02-03T08:25:13.459-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-02-03T08:25:13.459-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;Michael, you may not like it, but on the fac..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;Michael, you may not like it, but on the face of it, this is not an irrational idea if one accepts genetics and the theory of evolutionary selection.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvolution may bias us toward selecting mates who possess qualities associated with successful reproductive strategies — males who are viewed as \u0026quot;good providers\u0026quot; or reliable protectors, females who are seen as healthy and strong enough to prove fertile and survive childbirth, etc. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut none of this implies that moral qualities are correlated with physical appearance. A man or woman can be deemed attractive for the above reasons (or for any reason) without being morally virtuous. A Pablo Escobar may be a very good provider; a Lucretia Borgia may prove very fertile. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Ed Dutton has written at least one book arguing that the shape of a person\u0026#39;s body can give us useful information about the shape of his brain\/character.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESounds similar to the theories of Cesar Lombroso, which were influential a hundred years ago. Lombroso collected images of faces, categorizing some as low criminal types and others as higher, more civilized types. For a while, some law enforcement agencies used this work to guide them in appraising suspects. If you read crime fiction from that era, Lombroso will turn up fairly often. But his views are considered thoroughly discredited today. \u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/645535129525386855\/comments\/default\/8716890135839276363"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/645535129525386855\/comments\/default\/8716890135839276363"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/the-parc-wars-revisited.html?showComment=1643905513459#c8716890135839276363","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Michael Prescott"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12963295565160636175"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_KbTmBB__5VI\/ScgM6p0vSyI\/AAAAAAAAABw\/BxDb4pVoqlA\/S220\/Portrait2005a.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/the-parc-wars-revisited.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-645535129525386855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/645535129525386855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1762907438"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"2\/03\/2022 08:25:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4617829731641399883"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-29T21:19:57.215-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-29T21:19:57.215-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Great reading"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Great reading"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7269557185283330223\/comments\/default\/4617829731641399883"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7269557185283330223\/comments\/default\/4617829731641399883"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2012\/07\/ayn-rand-epistemology-4.html?showComment=1643519997215#c4617829731641399883","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Allen Nixon"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.allennixon.com\/"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2012\/07\/ayn-rand-epistemology-4.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7269557185283330223","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7269557185283330223","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/29\/2022 09:19:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-992188400982688388"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-29T07:03:32.101-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-29T07:03:32.101-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I heard a new one the other day from an Objectivis..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I heard a new one the other day from an Objectivist -- there was a pope who opposed street lights in Rome.  (Not true, in case you are wondering.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4703807419274323499\/comments\/default\/992188400982688388"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4703807419274323499\/comments\/default\/992188400982688388"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/objectivism-on-christianity-and-religion.html?showComment=1643468612101#c992188400982688388","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/objectivism-on-christianity-and-religion.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4703807419274323499","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4703807419274323499","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/29\/2022 07:03:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4013268163785254975"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-27T05:13:19.257-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-27T05:13:19.257-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I\u0026#39;d point out that \u0026quot;credibile est, quia i..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I\u0026#39;d point out that \u0026quot;credibile est, quia ineptum est\u0026quot; is subject to a variety of translations.  There are scholars such as Avery Dulles (History of Apologetics) who do consider Tertullian a kind of irrationalist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4703807419274323499\/comments\/default\/4013268163785254975"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4703807419274323499\/comments\/default\/4013268163785254975"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/objectivism-on-christianity-and-religion.html?showComment=1643289199257#c4013268163785254975","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/objectivism-on-christianity-and-religion.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4703807419274323499","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4703807419274323499","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/27\/2022 05:13:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5695600257930924041"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-26T17:25:33.662-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-26T17:25:33.662-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The problem with Kant\u0026#39;s statement  “I have the..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The problem with Kant\u0026#39;s statement  “I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith” is that it is taken out of context. No Objectivist who ever quotes it cares about the context in which it was written. It appears in the preface to the second edition of the Critique. Kant\u0026#39;s \u003Ci\u003ECritique of Pure Reason\u003C\/i\u003E is primarily a polemic against  the speculative philosophy of Leibnitz and other German philosophers. Under the influence of Hume, Kant wanted to criticize speculative metaphysics for not being empirical enough. This, however, was rather controversial, because part of Kant\u0026#39;s criticism was essayed against rationalistic arguments for God, such as the cosmological and ontological proofs for a deity, which Kant argued were \u0026quot;impossible.\u0026quot; Now in the eighteenth century, criticism of religion was almost universally frowned upon. Even religious scoffers such as Voltaire believed that religious morality is what held society together. So Kant\u0026#39;s attack of rationalistic arguments for religion were considered \u0026quot;dangerous.\u0026quot; Kant\u0026#39;s second edition of the critique sought to address these religious criticisms. Essentially Kant argued that his attack on \u0026quot;reason\u0026quot; (i.e., rationalism) shouldn\u0026#39;t be regarded as an attack on religion because it was only an attack on false rationalistic arguments against religion, not on religious belief based on faith. The point of Kant saying he denied knowledge to make room for faith is to just get his critics off his back. \u0026quot;I\u0026#39;ve taken away your rationalistic arguments for God, but if you leave me alone I\u0026#39;ll let you have your faith\u0026quot; --- that\u0026#39;s what he\u0026#39;s trying to say."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4703807419274323499\/comments\/default\/5695600257930924041"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4703807419274323499\/comments\/default\/5695600257930924041"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/objectivism-on-christianity-and-religion.html?showComment=1643246733662#c5695600257930924041","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/objectivism-on-christianity-and-religion.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4703807419274323499","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4703807419274323499","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/26\/2022 05:25:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7341263422843238054"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-25T23:18:38.530-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-25T23:18:38.530-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I\u0026#39;m pretty sure Benjamin Franklin was a Deist ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I\u0026#39;m pretty sure Benjamin Franklin was a Deist according to the definition you provided above."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4703807419274323499\/comments\/default\/7341263422843238054"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4703807419274323499\/comments\/default\/7341263422843238054"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/objectivism-on-christianity-and-religion.html?showComment=1643181518530#c7341263422843238054","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Ed"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03432146226357032162"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/objectivism-on-christianity-and-religion.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4703807419274323499","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4703807419274323499","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1477685497"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/25\/2022 11:18:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4705443815579961977"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-24T23:31:24.485-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-24T23:31:24.485-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Not five minutes after I posted this, an interview..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Not five minutes after I posted this, an interview of ARI philosopher Robert Mayhew by Gloria Alvarez showed up in my You Tube feed.  Alvarez repeated the claim about the library of Alexandria and Mayhew the Tertullian misquote.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4703807419274323499\/comments\/default\/4705443815579961977"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4703807419274323499\/comments\/default\/4705443815579961977"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/objectivism-on-christianity-and-religion.html?showComment=1643095884485#c4705443815579961977","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/objectivism-on-christianity-and-religion.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4703807419274323499","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4703807419274323499","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/24\/2022 11:31:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2386893865067895189"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-22T13:47:30.231-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-22T13:47:30.231-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The perhaps unsurprising irony is that Rand hersel..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EThe perhaps unsurprising irony is that Rand herself neither accepted evolution nor departed significantly from the \u0026quot;stereotypically small, ugly, fussy\u0026quot; phenotype\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven more ironic is that Rand was not exactly a tall or exceptionally beautiful person. The \u0026quot;stereotypically small, ugly, fussy\u0026quot; phenotype could be applied to herself by someone similarly disposed to equate physical unattractiveness with moral failings. In other words, Rand is demonstrating a wanton lack of self-awareness.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/645535129525386855\/comments\/default\/2386893865067895189"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/645535129525386855\/comments\/default\/2386893865067895189"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/the-parc-wars-revisited.html?showComment=1642888050231#c2386893865067895189","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/the-parc-wars-revisited.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-645535129525386855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/645535129525386855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/22\/2022 01:47:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1125318523235535200"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-21T12:12:58.660-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-21T12:12:58.660-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;[Rand] seems to have literally associated go..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;[Rand] seems to have literally associated good looks with admirable personal qualities and physical unattractiveness with moral turpitude.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMichael, you may not like it, but on the face of it, this is not an irrational idea if one accepts genetics and the theory of evolutionary selection. Ed Dutton has written at least one book arguing that the shape of a person\u0026#39;s body can give us useful information about the shape of his brain\/character.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe perhaps unsurprising irony is that Rand herself neither accepted evolution nor departed significantly from the \u0026quot;stereotypically small, ugly, fussy\u0026quot; phenotype--and she had a good deal to say against \u0026quot;Muscle-Mysticism\u0026quot; (for which the Catholic term is \u0026quot;Materialism\u0026quot;)."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/645535129525386855\/comments\/default\/1125318523235535200"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/645535129525386855\/comments\/default\/1125318523235535200"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/the-parc-wars-revisited.html?showComment=1642795978660#c1125318523235535200","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Johnny"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/the-parc-wars-revisited.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-645535129525386855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/645535129525386855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/21\/2022 12:12:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8464869305748155245"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-18T13:29:24.420-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-18T13:29:24.420-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Ayn Rand\u0026#39;s Marginalia was edited by Robert May..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Ayn Rand\u0026#39;s Marginalia was edited by Robert Mayhew.  In Goddess of the Market, Jennifer Burns called him out for his phoney baloney editing of Ayn Rand\u0026#39;s Questions and Answers and The Art of Non Fiction Writing (she didn\u0026#39;t mention his editing of the Marginalia).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn typical Objectivist fashion, Mayhew reviewed Burns\u0026#39; book but never mentioned that she criticized him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/theobjectivestandard.com\/2009\/11\/ayn-rand-jennifer-burns\/\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/645535129525386855\/comments\/default\/8464869305748155245"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/645535129525386855\/comments\/default\/8464869305748155245"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/the-parc-wars-revisited.html?showComment=1642541364420#c8464869305748155245","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/the-parc-wars-revisited.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-645535129525386855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/645535129525386855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/18\/2022 01:29:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8852884703467373801"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-18T13:16:37.706-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-18T13:16:37.706-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Correction: Neil informs me that Valliant did not ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Correction: Neil informs me that Valliant did not edit Ayn Rand\u0026#39;s Marginalia. "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/645535129525386855\/comments\/default\/8852884703467373801"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/645535129525386855\/comments\/default\/8852884703467373801"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/the-parc-wars-revisited.html?showComment=1642540597706#c8852884703467373801","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Michael Prescott"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12963295565160636175"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_KbTmBB__5VI\/ScgM6p0vSyI\/AAAAAAAAABw\/BxDb4pVoqlA\/S220\/Portrait2005a.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/the-parc-wars-revisited.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-645535129525386855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/645535129525386855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1762907438"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/18\/2022 01:16:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3564726290787838409"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-18T09:55:36.013-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-18T09:55:36.013-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\/\/It would be truly unfortunate if Peikoff was res..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\/\/It would be truly unfortunate if Peikoff was responsible for the insertion of Valliant\u0026#39;s hectoring and borderline slanderous notes (e.g, \u0026quot;Bullseye, Miss Rand,\u0026quot; comparing Nathaniel to a \u0026quot;junkie\u0026quot; and a \u0026quot;drug addict,\u0026quot; having \u0026quot;the soul of a rapist,\u0026quot; calling his girlfriend Patrecia a \u0026quot;fraud,\u0026quot; etc.).\/\/\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat sounds more than just \u0026quot;borderline\u0026quot; slanderous (or, technically, libelous). What’s interesting to me is that Objectivists so often descend into crude personal attacks even though their professed philosophy is one of coolly logical analysis. In this, of course, they\u0026#39;re merely following in Rand\u0026#39;s own footsteps. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Ayn Rand\u0026#39;s Marginalia\u0026quot; (which, as I recall, Valliant edited) is loaded with angry, vindictive outbursts that Rand scribbled in the margins of books she was reading — and frequently misreading. I wonder how many pencils she broke. In her journals, anyone she disapproves of comes in for a similar attack. Upset with the jurors in the Hickman kidnap-murder case, she described these people as ugly, commonplace, and poorly dressed, with murky souls that concealed \u0026quot;much greater crimes\u0026quot; than the defendant\u0026#39;s. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven her published work readily descends to ad hominems. Galt\u0026#39;s speech characterizes those who disagree with him as Neanderthals, \u0026quot;anthropoids,\u0026quot; and worse. Her \u0026quot;Attila and the witch doctor\u0026quot; thesis simplistically classifies pretty much everyone in history as either a brute or a mystic (incidentally misrepresenting both Attila, who was a skillful military tactician, and witch doctors, many of whom were knowledgeable herbalists and pretty good practical psychologists). Her fictional villains are stereotypically small, ugly, fussy, vaguely emasculated males with ridiculous names. She seems to have literally associated good looks with admirable personal qualities and physical unattractiveness with moral turpitude. Criticizing creationists, she wrote that, by their appearance, they might \u0026quot;fill certain gaps in the theory of evolution.\u0026quot; Meanwhile she idolized Marilyn Monroe, writing a bizarre obituary that blamed the ugly, corrupt world for the star\u0026#39;s death. (By all accounts, Monroe was mentally ill, impossible to work with, and incredibly cruel.) Examples can be multiplied endlessly. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet Objectivists persist in viewing Rand as a paragon of rationality, and her critics as irrational or anti-rational. It’s very strange. \u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/645535129525386855\/comments\/default\/3564726290787838409"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/645535129525386855\/comments\/default\/3564726290787838409"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/the-parc-wars-revisited.html?showComment=1642528536013#c3564726290787838409","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Michael Prescott"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12963295565160636175"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_KbTmBB__5VI\/ScgM6p0vSyI\/AAAAAAAAABw\/BxDb4pVoqlA\/S220\/Portrait2005a.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/the-parc-wars-revisited.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-645535129525386855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/645535129525386855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1762907438"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/18\/2022 09:55:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4465040778041622470"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-17T04:51:33.651-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-17T04:51:33.651-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The link to the video didn\u0026#39;t carry over appare..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The link to the video didn\u0026#39;t carry over apparently.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt\u0026#39;s at 19:28\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?app=desktop\u0026amp;v=TX2ooKAbwNI\u0026amp;t=19%3A28m\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/645535129525386855\/comments\/default\/4465040778041622470"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/645535129525386855\/comments\/default\/4465040778041622470"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/the-parc-wars-revisited.html?showComment=1642423893651#c4465040778041622470","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/the-parc-wars-revisited.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-645535129525386855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/645535129525386855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/17\/2022 04:51:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7356016046255703980"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-16T16:13:32.458-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-16T16:13:32.458-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Greg,\n\nThanks for posting this.\n\nHere is the link ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Greg,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThanks for posting this.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHere is the link to Mr. Valliant\u0026#39;s friend Casey Fahy\u0026#39;s claim that Peikoff didn\u0026#39;t have any involvement in the content of the book.  It\u0026#39;s in Fahy\u0026#39;s article, not some throw away comment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttp:\/\/rebirthofreason.com\/Articles\/Fahy\/Hold_Your_Horses.shtml\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/645535129525386855\/comments\/default\/7356016046255703980"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/645535129525386855\/comments\/default\/7356016046255703980"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/the-parc-wars-revisited.html?showComment=1642378412458#c7356016046255703980","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/the-parc-wars-revisited.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-645535129525386855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/645535129525386855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/16\/2022 04:13:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3603017780493060911"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-11T09:23:58.471-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-11T09:23:58.471-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"How about Eddie Willers \u0026amp; 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that she did not know what I.Q. tests measure and that she was skeptical that intelligence is inherited. She stated that a person could raise his I.Q. score by \u0026quot;50 points\u0026quot; by will alone. I believed that she used the words \u0026quot;focus\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;mental focus,\u0026quot; not \u0026quot;will.\u0026quot; I don\u0026#39;t have the book handy; but it amounts to the same thing, it seems to me. Her comments were made in the late 1960s or early 1970s.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E- \u0026quot;Yaron has said talking about IQ is another way of talking about race (which he doesn\u0026#39;t believe exists). I suspect its that and their blank slate view of human nature.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI suspect you are quite correct about this. Mr. Nyquist might have a field day with the well-known but insufficiently appreciated fact that Rand\u0026#39;s view of human nature is principally, I derived from her admiration for a heroic character in a children\u0026#39;s adventure story (Cyrus in \u0026quot;The Mysterious Valley\u0026quot;). In Barbara Branden and elsewhere, Rand says her philosophy grew entirely from her asking: What premises would be necessary to have in order to be a man like Cyrus? That includes ethical, political, and ultimately even metaphysical and epistemological premises. (For example, a hero has self-assertive confidence, which implies full confidence in his mind\u0026#39;s ability to grasp whatever he needs to deal with; etc.) All those recent semi-philosophical \u0026quot;popularizing\u0026quot; books we see in bookstores, with titles like \u0026quot;Spiderman and Philosophy,\u0026quot; may not be very different from Rand\u0026#39;s philosophical work."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7525967605157094164\/comments\/default\/4799128613684531018"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7525967605157094164\/comments\/default\/4799128613684531018"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-3.html?showComment=1641247551262#c4799128613684531018","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Johnny"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7525967605157094164","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7525967605157094164","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/03\/2022 02:05:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8511416857588747315"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-02T10:19:08.017-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-02T10:19:08.017-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I always saw some of the strange relationship depi..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I always saw some of the strange relationship depictions as a result of Dagny being supposedly a stand-in for Rand herself. Nearly all the prominent men on the \u0026quot;good\u0026quot; side are infatuated with her. Even when it\u0026#39;s clear near the end that she\u0026#39;s devoting herself to Galt (and thereby dumping Hank Rearden), both Rearden and d\u0026#39;Anconia state their intent to continue to pursue Dagny, regardless.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERand had a perfect opportunity to give Rearden a happier ending, considering she had Cheryl Brooks speak admiringly of Rearden before she got herself married to James Taggart. One could have easily seen Brooks hook up with Rearden once she became disillusioned with James, but no. She tosses herself into the river. This could have been because she deserved to die for her moral failings, in Rand\u0026#39;s eyes, but I often wonder if the idea of having Rearden settle for any other person as a partner was just unthinkable to Rand, that Dagny (and by extension, Rand) was to be so desirable that no man who knew her would even consider another woman as good enough."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/980933017735259294\/comments\/default\/8511416857588747315"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/980933017735259294\/comments\/default\/8511416857588747315"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/ari-on-vaccines-and-pandemic.html?showComment=1641147548017#c8511416857588747315","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/ari-on-vaccines-and-pandemic.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-980933017735259294","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/980933017735259294","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/02\/2022 10:19:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2052163681910211055"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-01T22:23:03.670-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-01T22:23:03.670-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Given the negative, indeed hostile, way Rand portr..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Given the negative, indeed hostile, way Rand portrays mothers, family life and children in her novels, I don\u0026#39;t see how you can characterize Rand\u0026#39;s philosophy as the promotion of human flourishing. Marrying and starting a family is human flourishing in the most literal sense, not being a sterile career woman who is pursuing a career in corporate America, like Dagny Taggart; or being an unmarriageable incel like most of the men in Galt\u0026#39;s Gulch, regardless of how \u0026quot;productive\u0026quot; they are.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy contrast, at least a few of the villains in \u003Ci\u003EAtlas Shrugged\u003C\/i\u003E are able to attract women, like regular guys. Jim Taggart has \u003Cb\u003EWAY\u003C\/b\u003E more experience with women than John Galt; yet Rand wants us to view Galt, with only one given notch to his credit, as the novel\u0026#39;s philosophical authority about how sex works. This might impress an unworldly teenage boy, but any adult man with common life experience would have to laugh at it.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt\u0026#39;s like Rand is showing, but not consciously, that the men she wants us to see as the bad guy are attractive to women precisely because their tribal or collectivist orientation integrates them into their society; while the heroes\u0026#39; atomization and alienation from that society turns off the majority of the women who could have become their mates. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGiven Rand\u0026#39;s fundamentally screwed-up view of tribalism, it\u0026#39;s no wonder why she and a lot of her followers are childless.  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I\u0026#39;m no geneticist but maybe the same genes that resulted in Rwanda also tell people that they should love their own children more than other children, which is obviously socially beneficial.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe way Objectivists attack \u0026quot;tribalism\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;nationalism,\u0026quot; you\u0026#39;d almost think O\u0026#39;ism is a version of leftism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnon100"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/980933017735259294\/comments\/default\/3896562597192591589"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/980933017735259294\/comments\/default\/3896562597192591589"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/ari-on-vaccines-and-pandemic.html?showComment=1641046801842#c3896562597192591589","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/ari-on-vaccines-and-pandemic.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-980933017735259294","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/980933017735259294","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/01\/2022 06:20:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-9069357395147417972"},"published":{"$t":"2021-12-31T11:43:08.711-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-12-31T11:43:08.711-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;Once I reach two or three typos, I\u0026#39;m out..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;Once I reach two or three typos, I\u0026#39;m out!\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd nothing of value was lost."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/980933017735259294\/comments\/default\/9069357395147417972"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/980933017735259294\/comments\/default\/9069357395147417972"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/ari-on-vaccines-and-pandemic.html?showComment=1640979788711#c9069357395147417972","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/ari-on-vaccines-and-pandemic.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-980933017735259294","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/980933017735259294","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"12\/31\/2021 11:43:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3759838748137231405"},"published":{"$t":"2021-12-31T07:30:43.784-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-12-31T07:30:43.784-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"As for Objectivists\u0026#39; IQ denialism, what do the..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"As for Objectivists\u0026#39; IQ denialism, what do they think is different about John Galt when Rand talks about his \u0026quot;incalculable intellectual power\u0026quot;? IQ testing tries to \u0026quot;calculate\u0026quot; what differentiates men like Galt from men like Eddie Willers. And America\u0026#39;s armed forces have used IQ testing for generations to match up inductees with the kinds of jobs they can handle; you just can\u0026#39;t ignore this vast body of experience which shows that IQ matters in the real world. When my father was drafted, for example, the U.S. Army decided from his IQ test results to order him to train as a cryptographer.  "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/980933017735259294\/comments\/default\/3759838748137231405"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/980933017735259294\/comments\/default\/3759838748137231405"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/ari-on-vaccines-and-pandemic.html?showComment=1640964643784#c3759838748137231405","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Albionic American"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07863146943953471221"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/ari-on-vaccines-and-pandemic.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-980933017735259294","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/980933017735259294","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1881752841"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"12\/31\/2021 07:30:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6715351606280396202"},"published":{"$t":"2021-12-31T07:20:47.941-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-12-31T07:20:47.941-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Objectivists lately have also been engaging in wei..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Objectivists lately have also been engaging in weird denialism about man\u0026#39;s tribal nature. An Objectivist from Greece who appears a lot on the Ayn Rand Centre UK\u0026#39;s YouTube channel even asserts that tribalism destroys reason and the human mind. So how do they explain tribally oriented immigrants from India? They are flourishing in the United States as entrepreneurs and capitalists, from buying and running hotels and other business; or else they are earning high salaries as Men of the Mind in STEM fields. But they are definitely NOT living as atomized individualists according to the Randian model. 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Listen to any Robert Kennedy talk on the subject and he will clearly outline how the current institutions, both public and private, are so corrupt that none of their pro-vaccine safety claims can be trusted. Plus in every study that compares full vaccinated children to partially vaccinated children to fully unvaccinated children, the results are always the same. The more unvaccinated the healthier the child. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe science strongly suggests that the environmental toxins used in vaccines as adjuvants, especially the metals, are toxic and result in neurological damage. This is has been shown with animal studies over and over. So it very well might be that vaccines represent a paradigm flaw and that they are no longer necessary as it was first world construction and infrastructure technology which minimized infection disease below nuissance level. And that is just with regular vaccines. The Covid death shots are another ball of wax. There are many highly intelligent science types that are showing these current \u0026quot;vaccines\u0026quot; are the most dangerous drugs ever released to the public, and that their death toll is enormous.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI used to be an orthodox Randian, now I can\u0026#39;t stomach them. They are not pro-science or pro-liberty. They are de-facto neo-liberal corporatist appeasers. They are the worst of the libertarian variants and are worthy of the ridicule they always generate. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI loathe them. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJohn Kimm"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/980933017735259294\/comments\/default\/6799046687941851883"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/980933017735259294\/comments\/default\/6799046687941851883"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/ari-on-vaccines-and-pandemic.html?showComment=1640919458302#c6799046687941851883","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/ari-on-vaccines-and-pandemic.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-980933017735259294","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/980933017735259294","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"12\/30\/2021 06:57:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4465307914650297230"},"published":{"$t":"2021-12-30T18:02:14.879-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-12-30T18:02:14.879-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The author of this article should take proofreadin..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The author of this article should take proofreading seriously. Once I reach two or three typos, I\u0026#39;m out!"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/980933017735259294\/comments\/default\/4465307914650297230"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/980933017735259294\/comments\/default\/4465307914650297230"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/ari-on-vaccines-and-pandemic.html?showComment=1640916134879#c4465307914650297230","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Carlos Smiff"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00557375452294239457"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/ari-on-vaccines-and-pandemic.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-980933017735259294","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/980933017735259294","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-105594460"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"12\/30\/2021 06:02:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8681831664308740346"},"published":{"$t":"2021-12-30T05:59:05.318-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-12-30T05:59:05.318-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Many prominent Objectivists have said that they do..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Many prominent Objectivists have said that they don\u0026#39;t believe IQ test measure intelligence, even though 99 percent of the experts in the field believe they do.  IQ tests have been the most gunned after aspect of psychological theory in the last 100 years and the have withstood e3very challenge.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI\u0026#39;ve been told by objectists that males are not innately more agressive than females although this is always and everywhere observed in humans and animals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr 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Centre UK, whic..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"It\u0026#39;s interesting that Ayn Rand Centre UK, which I don\u0026#39;t think is affiliated with the ARI, has a lot of big names such as 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Good to see some ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EGreat piece Greg\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThanks Daniel. Good to see some old guard making a brief return. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EOff topic, but the conservative (pro-MAGA) site American Thinker just posted a harsh critique of ARI.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI have to admit being somewhat surprised that ARI is supporting mandates. But this Dr. Adalja appears to be an establishment type, at least in terms of medical opinions -- so maybe that explains it. 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effective."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/2481819722473391938\/comments\/default\/4497367521031590477"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/2481819722473391938\/comments\/default\/4497367521031590477"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/intellectual-sources-of-rands-view-of.html?showComment=1635243186473#c4497367521031590477","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/intellectual-sources-of-rands-view-of.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2481819722473391938","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/2481819722473391938","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10\/26\/2021 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Everything else is either fiction or polemic. Another benefit was that Rand herself, and therefore her flunkies, declared it was her most important work, on which everything rests. Best of all, it\u0026#39;s short. Once I\u0026#39;d spent a bit of time identifying what was wrong with it - the jargon and slogans that act as \u0026quot;thought-terminating cliches\u0026quot; for adherents to chant, the basic logical errors, and as you say the shell-games over definitions - it was clear that there was nothing holding up the rest of the superstructure. I then couldn\u0026#39;t see the rest of her writing as anything other than exploded bubble gum.\u003Cbr \/\u003EITOE tries to be a hard book, but once you see familiar pattern the errors are very simple. Her followers, and even Rand herself I suspect have - with some irony - intuited that it\u0026#39;s a dead end, a conclusion we can infer from the simple fact that her self-proclaimed most important work even 60 years later has never got past the introduction."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/2592050919509473858\/comments\/default\/7945063928334165982"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/2592050919509473858\/comments\/default\/7945063928334165982"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/08\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-4.html?showComment=1632790323251#c7945063928334165982","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel 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the ARI takes rather ext..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"It\u0026#39;s interesting that the ARI takes rather extreme position on some things Rand didn\u0026#39;t write about (vaccines and immigration most notably), but seem silent on certain things she did write about (women president \u0026amp; homosexuality).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr 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He\u0026#39;s been involved with ARI, TOS, Kelley etc.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_UQABzMz5eE\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Rule"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7525967605157094164\/comments\/default\/3851867678084099220"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7525967605157094164\/comments\/default\/3851867678084099220"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-3.html?showComment=1629554352602#c3851867678084099220","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7525967605157094164","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7525967605157094164","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"8\/21\/2021 06:59:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-284767580032830244"},"published":{"$t":"2021-08-19T05:56:44.234-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-08-19T05:56:44.234-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Congratulations on your new book, Greg. I hadn’t l..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Congratulations on your new book, Greg. I hadn’t looked in on this blog in a while, and I was pleasantly surprised to learn that you’ve put some of your excellent posts into a more permanent form. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs a (former) blogger myself, I understand only too well what you mean about the difficulty of organizing old posts. I had intended to create some kind of hierarchical, easily searchable structure for my years of scribblings, until I discovered there\u0026#39;s no obvious way to do it. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERand seems increasingly irrelevant to the political and philosophical conversation. As late as the 1980s, her views were fairly prominent. She influenced some members of the Reagan administration, and echoes of her arguments could be found in occasional opinion pieces. These days, she rarely comes up, except as an answer in crossword puzzles. The last time I heard of her in connection with any public figure was when a report circulated that congressman Paul Ryan liked her books. Ryan has since retired from politics. There’s an old (very laudatory) quote from Donald Trump about Rand, but it’s hard to see her influence in his brand of populism, which she probably would have despised. (Or maybe not; Peikoff said he was voting for Trump in the last election. In any case, Trump is no Objectivist.) \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI have a higher opinion of Rand as a fiction writer than I think you do, and I would expect The Fountainhead, at least, to endure — if anything not approved by the progressive hive-mind can endure in the woketopia we seem intent on creating. To that extent, she’ll continue to have an influence, but more in a \u0026quot;self-help\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;self-actualization\u0026quot; kind of way. Perhaps that’s the role she’s best suited for. Her vision of human nature as a blank slate, while not empirically justified, does hold out the promise that the determined and properly focused striver can bootstrap his way to greatness — much as William James\u0026#39;s devotion to the untrammeled power of the will allowed him to break free of the neuroses that handicapped his early life. It’s a sort of philosophical placebo effect. \u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/8853421688598936359\/comments\/default\/284767580032830244"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/8853421688598936359\/comments\/default\/284767580032830244"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/new-book-faux-rationality-of-ayn-rand.html?showComment=1629377804234#c284767580032830244","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Michael Prescott"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12963295565160636175"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_KbTmBB__5VI\/ScgM6p0vSyI\/AAAAAAAAABw\/BxDb4pVoqlA\/S220\/Portrait2005a.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/new-book-faux-rationality-of-ayn-rand.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8853421688598936359","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/8853421688598936359","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1762907438"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"8\/19\/2021 05:56:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6850635910496553336"},"published":{"$t":"2021-08-16T21:08:33.010-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-08-16T21:08:33.010-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Writing a good essay isn\u0026#39;t easy and it\u0026#39;s t..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Writing a good essay isn\u0026#39;t easy and it\u0026#39;s the fruit of hard work. 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Recommended it to a bunch of my foreign friends and now they use it too. "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/188336864620589680\/comments\/default\/8373252273284646641"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/188336864620589680\/comments\/default\/8373252273284646641"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/visions-of-reality-new-ways-of.html?showComment=1628850030348#c8373252273284646641","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"matterlandsen"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12275947173396725056"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/visions-of-reality-new-ways-of.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-188336864620589680","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/188336864620589680","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1071906197"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"8\/13\/2021 03:20:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8215843609575295450"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-22T08:23:31.574-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-22T08:23:31.574-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Kudos to Mr. Nyquist.\n\nHis intellectual evolution ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Kudos to Mr. Nyquist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHis intellectual evolution is similar to mine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAny student of Burnham \u0026amp; Pareto can\u0026#39;t go very far wrong!"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7525967605157094164\/comments\/default\/8215843609575295450"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7525967605157094164\/comments\/default\/8215843609575295450"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-3.html?showComment=1626967411574#c8215843609575295450","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7525967605157094164","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7525967605157094164","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/22\/2021 08:23:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2136823990869227949"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-19T04:52:55.535-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-19T04:52:55.535-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Yaron Book said that IQ tests are \u0026quot;B.S.\u0026quot;..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Yaron Book said that IQ tests are \u0026quot;B.S.\u0026quot; (he didn\u0026#39;t use the abbreviation).  It\u0026#39;s strange since IQ tests are the most gunned after aspect of social science and it\u0026#39;s withstood every challenge.  If I could give Brook a million dollars in exchange for lowering his IQ 20 points, I doubt he\u0026#39;d accept.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E99% of experts in the field of intelligence research think IQ tests measure intelligence.  Even Objectivist psychologists accept it, so I\u0026#39;m not sure what\u0026#39;s driving the train.  Yaron has said talking about IQ is another way of talking about race (which he doesn\u0026#39;t believe exists).  I suspect its that and their blank slate view of human nature."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7525967605157094164\/comments\/default\/2136823990869227949"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7525967605157094164\/comments\/default\/2136823990869227949"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-3.html?showComment=1626695575535#c2136823990869227949","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7525967605157094164","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7525967605157094164","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/19\/2021 04:52:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1274386529153271148"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-18T17:12:24.526-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-18T17:12:24.526-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Objectivists\u0026#39; hostility towards IQ research is..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Objectivists\u0026#39; hostility towards IQ research is puzzling because Rand\u0026#39;s view of the mind is implicitly IQ-oriented. "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7525967605157094164\/comments\/default\/1274386529153271148"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7525967605157094164\/comments\/default\/1274386529153271148"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-3.html?showComment=1626653544526#c1274386529153271148","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Albionic American"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7525967605157094164","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7525967605157094164","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/18\/2021 05:12:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8618871060263395283"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-18T14:48:30.937-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-18T14:48:30.937-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I changed when I first read The Bell Curve, by Her..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I changed when I first read The Bell Curve, by Hernstein and Murray.  It showed that intelligence is the most important factor and its largely genetic.  It also varies by race.  No wonder why Objectivists hate this book.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7525967605157094164\/comments\/default\/8618871060263395283"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7525967605157094164\/comments\/default\/8618871060263395283"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-3.html?showComment=1626644910937#c8618871060263395283","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7525967605157094164","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7525967605157094164","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/18\/2021 02:48:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6238385526573079505"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-06T09:46:12.545-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-06T09:46:12.545-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Hi, Greg! I check your blog every so often and am ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Hi, Greg! I check your blog every so often and am excited to come across this post today. As a former committed Objectivist (still recovering), research from recent years in evolutionary psychology has been particularly helpful in giving me a more accurate and nuanced understanding of human nature. Your new book is very timely with the addition of insights from Jonathan Haidt, etc. Your work certainly has a niche audience so I imagine the effort you put into it is not particularly well-compensated. That being said, I hope this note of appreciation and the purchase of your new book will repay you in some small way. Thank you for your sincere work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EP.S. Others may be interested in these recent podcast episodes hosted by the Ayn Rand Centre UK:\u003Cbr \/\u003E- Harry Binswanger: Evolution - Fact in Biology, Fiction in Psychology. (Here Dr. Binswanger\u0026#39;s arguments demonstrate that he does not understand the claims of evolutionary psychology at all. He makes strawman arguments about how we are not born with content knowledge.)\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8np1_a2ezYk\u003Cbr \/\u003E- Yaron Brook debate: Choice, Evolution, \u0026amp; Human Behaviour. (His argument against evolutionary psychology is along the lines of, \u0026quot;It\u0026#39;s a new field. It\u0026#39;s not proven yet.\u0026quot; Aside from that, he pretty much concedes all of his opponent\u0026#39;s points about temperament and inclinations being inborn, and that most humans default to their natural tendencies.)\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YcYesdBbUoU \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt this point in human development I don\u0026#39;t think Objectivism has much to offer. Information from high-quality podcasts on science, neuroscience, psychology, etc. is readily accessible. The Objectivist refusal to incorporate neuroscience into its worldview will make it seem mystic\/religious\/superstitious to most contemporary thinkers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI look forward to learning more from your new book."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/8853421688598936359\/comments\/default\/6238385526573079505"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/8853421688598936359\/comments\/default\/6238385526573079505"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/new-book-faux-rationality-of-ayn-rand.html?showComment=1625589972545#c6238385526573079505","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Carrie"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/new-book-faux-rationality-of-ayn-rand.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8853421688598936359","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/8853421688598936359","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/06\/2021 09:46:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-970226659716842785"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-05T16:16:27.401-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-05T16:16:27.401-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;Youth is not necessarily a barrier to philos..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;Youth is not necessarily a barrier to philosophical insight.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Today, I decided to be an atheist”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethere is nothing scientific behind that --it is faith as any other.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1896503605065624994\/comments\/default\/970226659716842785"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1896503605065624994\/comments\/default\/970226659716842785"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-2.html?showComment=1625526987401#c970226659716842785","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1896503605065624994","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1896503605065624994","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/05\/2021 04:16:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3909248310675531864"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-04T13:38:23.747-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-04T13:38:23.747-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"you haven\u0026#39;t provided a clear definition of \u0026qu..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003Eyou haven\u0026#39;t provided a clear definition of \u0026quot;philosophical literacy\u0026quot; and its Unenlightened opposite\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike most forms of connoisseurship, \u0026quot;philosophical literacy\u0026quot; cannot really be defined. It\u0026#39;s one of those things you have to possess in order to understand it. Describing philosophical literacy a philosophical illiterate is like trying to explain color to a blind man. To be sure, illustrative examples of philosophical illiteracy can be given, but they\u0026#39;re hardly exhaustive nor fully determinative. So for example, when Rand presents the \u0026quot;problem of universals\u0026quot; as an epistemological issue when it is in fact a metaphysical issue; and when she later suggests, or at least implies, that the problem of universals is the great problem of modern philosophy (even though most modern philosophers said very little about it), that is indicative that we may be in the presence of a philosophical illiterate. Had Rand read and understood the basic texts of the philosophical canon, she wouldn\u0026#39;t have made such errors. When she tries to reason from tautologies to specific doctrines (implicit in two of her basic axioms, explicit in her view that causality is a corollary of the \u0026quot;law of identity\u0026quot; -- \u0026quot;A is A\u0026quot;) that too is a philosophical faux pas. Basic philosophical literacy might have helped her avoid that particular philosophical faux pas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome errors in philosophy are not just the result of differing preferences or temperaments or honest mistakes. Sometimes they seem to arise from lacking any real understanding of the underlying issues, and that is where philosophical literacy comes in. There\u0026#39;s also the whole issue of being able to judge the quality of philosophical writing. If you look at Rand\u0026#39;s main philosophical writings, particularly \u0026quot;For the New Intellectual,\u0026quot; \u0026quot;Galt\u0026#39;s Speech,\u0026quot; \u0026quot;The Objectivist Ethics,\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;Man\u0026#39;s Rights,\u0026quot; they\u0026#39;re just not  that good. They\u0026#39;re full of sentimental (i.e., moralistic) reasoning and empirically weak. Compared to Locke, Hume, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Pierce, etc., Rand just isn\u0026#39;t as good. But of course you have to be philosophically literate to tell the difference.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1896503605065624994\/comments\/default\/3909248310675531864"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1896503605065624994\/comments\/default\/3909248310675531864"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-2.html?showComment=1625431103747#c3909248310675531864","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1896503605065624994","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1896503605065624994","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/04\/2021 01:38:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7505644670216468479"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-04T12:40:31.056-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-04T12:40:31.056-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Youth is not necessarily a barrier to philosophica..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EYouth is not necessarily a barrier to philosophical insight. David Hume, for example, published his Treatise on Human Nature when he was in his 20\u0026#39;s.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOddly, Hume himself regarded the Treatise as almost a juvenile work and resented when passages from it were quoted against him. He recast the Treatise in his two inquiries. 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It goes to your version of the article, not the published URL.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThanks for noting that. Blogger didn\u0026#39;t carry over my links from Google docs. I\u0026#39;ve been using Google docs to write these posts because I\u0026#39;ve been having garbling issues with blogger. I\u0026#39;ve tried to fix the links as best I can. 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The whole creation falls into those two categories, and there is no other place to which man can turn to find substitute for God. Any idol that is not an artifact of the natural world is an artifact of the social world.\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1896503605065624994\/comments\/default\/1688361153738254195"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1896503605065624994\/comments\/default\/1688361153738254195"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-2.html?showComment=1624935530736#c1688361153738254195","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1896503605065624994","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1896503605065624994","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/28\/2021 07:58:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-251960146865099779"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-28T19:50:01.130-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-28T19:50:01.130-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"At age 13: “Today, I decided to be an atheist”\nRob..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"At age 13: “Today, I decided to be an atheist”\u003Cbr \/\u003ERobbins writes trenchantly, “Perhaps this writer can be forgiven if he suggests that at the age of thirteen Rand was not yet capable of understanding the so-called proofs for the existence of God offered from Aristotle to Anselm, let alone grasping the much more subtle (and Scriptural) position that the God of the Bible is not a matter for demonstration, but the axiomatic sine qua non of all logical demonstration and rational thought” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERobbins is surely right that the thirteen-year-old Rand could not have rejected theistic belief based on a thorough examination of the arguments on all sides (let alone the claim that the existence of God is presupposed by all rational thought and proof); Rand, we conclude, became an atheist on what she took to be moral grounds. \u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1896503605065624994\/comments\/default\/251960146865099779"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1896503605065624994\/comments\/default\/251960146865099779"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-2.html?showComment=1624935001130#c251960146865099779","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1896503605065624994","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1896503605065624994","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/28\/2021 07:50:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-9207748365930945771"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-27T16:58:51.626-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-27T16:58:51.626-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"All of the \u0026quot;blogger.com\u0026quot; links in the ab..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"All of the \u0026quot;blogger.com\u0026quot; links in the above post do not work. The Mises link takes one to a page that only links to an archive.org \u0026quot;snapshot\u0026quot; of the essay in question, and that snapshot is incomplete.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso, how much of a definition of \u0026quot;philosophical literacy\u0026quot; does one need? There is a field of study in philosophy; one could assume that to be literate in it, one ought to have read widely in the field, and be able to understand and discuss its most prominent texts. As a layman, that\u0026#39;s how I\u0026#39;d interpret the phrase, at least."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1896503605065624994\/comments\/default\/9207748365930945771"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1896503605065624994\/comments\/default\/9207748365930945771"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-2.html?showComment=1624838331626#c9207748365930945771","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1896503605065624994","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1896503605065624994","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/27\/2021 04:58:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-226373472556877298"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-27T14:54:01.851-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-27T14:54:01.851-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"further to the first Anon\u0026#39;s note:\n\u0026quot;(to ge..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"further to the first Anon\u0026#39;s note:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;(to get an idea of how badly she misunderstood Kant, see George Walsh’s essay comparing Kant’s views with Rand’s misconceptions of them).\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blog\/post\/edit\/29196034\/1896503605065624994#\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;I had already been exposed to the Objectivist view of Hume via Peikoff’s Lectures on the History of Philosophy.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blog\/post\/edit\/29196034\/1896503605065624994#\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Fortunately for her, the “problem of universals” was an issue that had become passé by the time she commented on it. Contemporary philosophers paid little attention to it, so Rand’s embarrassing philosophical faux pas would go unnoticed until the late Scott Ryan brought it to the world’s attention in his book Objectivism and the Corruption of Rationality.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blog\/post\/edit\/29196034\/1896503605065624994#\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStephan Kinsella (2007) offers some assistance on this last:\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/mises.org\/wire\/objectivism-and-corruption-rationality\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Eunfortunately, overall (and link-cites notwithstanding), you haven\u0026#39;t provided a clear definition of \u0026quot;philosophical literacy\u0026quot; and its Unenlightened opposite. But hope springs eternal!"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1896503605065624994\/comments\/default\/226373472556877298"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1896503605065624994\/comments\/default\/226373472556877298"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-2.html?showComment=1624830841851#c226373472556877298","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1896503605065624994","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1896503605065624994","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/27\/2021 02:54:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1253996054418778388"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-27T12:50:11.290-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-27T12:50:11.290-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Rand presents a strange view of literacy in her no..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Rand presents a strange view of literacy in her novels. While the heroes need a certain amount of book learning so that they have the knowledge to perform their productive tasks, in general they don\u0026#39;t value reading or intellectual curiosity as such. The only character in a Rand novel who reads voraciously is the villain Ellsworth Toohey, and Rand portrays him that way to show that he is a parasite on other men\u0026#39;s minds.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven though many of the Founding Fathers she claimed to admire also read voraciously (George Washington even collected books and found time to read some of them in Mount Vernon, despite his reputation as a jock). And even though many Jewish immigrants and their children in the United States also read voraciously, like Rand\u0026#39;s contemporaries Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou\u0026#39;d think, for example, that John Galt would have covered the walls in his cabin with homemade bookshelves and filled them with textbooks about physics, math and engineering, works of philosophy and even a few novels he loved, like \u003Ci\u003ELes Miserables\u003C\/i\u003E or something. 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David Hume, for example, published his \u003Ci\u003ETreatise on Human Nature\u003C\/i\u003E when he was in his 20\u0026#39;s. While at the time other philosophers apparently didn\u0026#39;t appreciate the power of Hume\u0026#39;s arguments - Hume famously joked that his book \u0026quot;fell dead-born from the press\u0026quot; - the \u003Ci\u003ETreatise\u003C\/i\u003E is now regarded as one of the most important philosophical works in the last 400 years. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI also have to agree with the philosopher Antony Flew\u0026#39;s assessment where he says that he always discovered new insights in re-reading Hume\u0026#39;s works that he simply couldn\u0026#39;t see in Rand\u0026#39;s. 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It goes to your version of the article, not the published URL."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1896503605065624994\/comments\/default\/1025095315109745404"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1896503605065624994\/comments\/default\/1025095315109745404"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-2.html?showComment=1624821684193#c1025095315109745404","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1896503605065624994","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1896503605065624994","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/27\/2021 12:21:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5517784659259289190"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-24T12:05:48.778-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-24T12:05:48.778-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"AR asked the right questions...\n\nWilliam O\u0026#39;Nei..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EAR asked the right questions...\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWilliam O\u0026#39;Neil, in his academic critique of Rand, said exactly the same thing. He was rather perplexed by Rand --- as many academic philosophers are --- by Rand\u0026#39;s philosophy. Perhaps they\u0026#39;re astonished by her philosophical illiteracy. However, I sometimes wonder what it means to say she asked the right questions. What questions were those? I would contend, rather, that Rand\u0026#39;s chief merit as a philosopher is her ability to frame philosophical ideas in such a way that she was able to reach a large audience with them. Rand was a literary genius who was also a strange but genuine charismatic visionary. I\u0026#39;ll admit to not finding her peculiar vision of the heroic to my taste (I find it too eccentric and encrusted with false ideals), but it has a force and power of its own nonetheless, and to be entirely frank, it\u0026#39;s on the visionary side of things that apologists for capitalism have often been most lacking."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3499154756617174553\/comments\/default\/5517784659259289190"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3499154756617174553\/comments\/default\/5517784659259289190"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-1.html?showComment=1624561548778#c5517784659259289190","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-1.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3499154756617174553","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3499154756617174553","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/24\/2021 12:05:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6244947272414062446"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-22T12:47:21.026-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-22T12:47:21.026-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Rand\u0026#39;s career makes more sense when you read f..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Rand\u0026#39;s career makes more sense when you read for historical context Peter Watson\u0026#39;s book, \u003Ci\u003EThe Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God\u003C\/i\u003E. Watson doesn\u0026#39;t discuss Rand, but her quest for an alternative humanism in response to the cultural death of God in the late 19th Century invites comparisons with other thoughtful people\u0026#39;s efforts as they grappled with this problem over the time period Watson covers. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs a poster above says, Rand asked the right questions. She just came up with answers that often fall into the \u0026quot;not wrong\u0026quot; category, namely, that they show some insight, but mixed up with confusions, gaps and fallacies. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOf course, you can say that about many mainstream humanist doctrines as well. 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questions-----\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Eeven if she didn\u0026#39;t always come up with the right answers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere would be no Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature without Ayn 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08:19:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5460022756762449027"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-19T09:21:29.781-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-19T09:21:29.781-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I am an Ayn Rand fan but I take her philosophy wit..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I am an Ayn Rand fan but I take her philosophy with a grain of salt.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESeveral grains, in fact.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe FOUNTAINHEAD is her best work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EATLAS SHRUGGED would be twice as good if it were half as long.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr 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09:21:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4180420632355747723"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-16T23:38:47.074-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-16T23:38:47.074-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The salt is palpable."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The salt is 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11:38:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5429120304096866552"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-16T10:13:55.016-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-16T10:13:55.016-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"... staying tuned for Part 2 of this apologia, in ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"... staying tuned for Part 2 of this apologia, in which I presume you will discusss the foundations (yours, anyway) of \u0026quot;philosophical literacy.\u0026quot; Sources would be 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In 1980, he forecast rationing of housing and a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. He warned his followers to buy \u0026quot;gold, silver, a safe place outside the major cities.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen AIDS became the threat: \u0026quot;In 1992, we will run out of available hospital beds.... The world will eventually panic,\u0026quot; he wrote in 1987.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow North has found Y2K and a skittish audience receptive to predictions of doom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA recent advertisement for his Remnant Review newsletter proclaims: \u0026quot;A bank run like no other will bankrupt banks all over the world in 1999.\u0026quot;\u0026quot; --Wired Magazine"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3499154756617174553\/comments\/default\/7687905323784974561"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3499154756617174553\/comments\/default\/7687905323784974561"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-1.html?showComment=1623829923188#c7687905323784974561","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-1.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3499154756617174553","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3499154756617174553","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/16\/2021 12:52:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1334195751298082852"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-16T00:37:47.803-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-16T00:37:47.803-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The problem of suicide and the present condition o..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The problem of suicide and the present condition of the conjugal family, Durkheim concludes, are both instances of the modern decline of authority.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Religious society possess the authority to restrain individuals from suicidal impulses.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe sociology of Emile Durkheim by Robert A. Nisbet\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ein the very process of transferring society’s honor from institution to man, Durkheim writes, there arises a false conception of individualism-one in which society’s attributes become conceptually transferred to man’s biological nature:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“In societies where the dignity of the person is supreme, where man is a God to mankind, the individual is readily inclined to consider the man in himself as a God and to regard himself as the object of his own cult. When morality consists primarily in giving one a very high idea of one’s self, certain combinations of circumstances readily suffice to make man unable to perceive anything above himself. Individualism is, of course, not necessarily egoism, but it comes close to it; the one cannot be stimulated without the other being enlarged.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDurkheim’s treatment of the relation between individualism and egoism is reminiscent of Tocqueville, who had also put the two in common focus. Egoism, wrote Tocqueville, “is a passionate and exaggerated love of self which leads a man to connect everything with himself and to prefer himself to everything in the world.” Individualism, on the other hand, is a mature and calm quality which disposes each member of the community to separate himself from the mass of his fellows. Egoism originates in instinct; individualism proceeds from erroneous judgment—from deficiencies of mind rather than from perversity of heart: “Egoism blights the germ of all virtue; individualism, at first, only saps the virtues of public life; but in the long run it attacks and destroys all others and is at length absorbed in downright egoism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETocqueville, too, had been struck by the tendency of the \u003Cbr \/\u003Eindividualistic characteristics of democracies—the drive for wealth, equality, status, and so on—to produce a general malaise and the paradox of men increasingly miserable even in the midst of relative abundance. The essence of the process, for Tocqueville, was the gnawing sense of despair men felt at their inability to reach the heights that were progressively opened to them, new heights that appeared maddeningly on the foundations of what they were able to achieve. Tocqueville believed that the frustration caused by constantly receding goals, coupled with the separation from statuses and norms which—however binding they may have been —had at least offered certainty and repose,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDurkheim’s  view does not differ, basically, from Tocqueville’s:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Social man necessarily presupposes a society which he expresses and serves. If this dissolves, if we no longer feel it in existence and action about and above us, whatever is social in us is deprived of all objective foundation. All that remains is an artificial combination of illusory images, a phantasmagoria vanishing at the least reflection; that is, nothing which can be a goal for our action. Yet this social man is the essence of civilized man; he is the masterpiece of existence. Thus, we are bereft of reasons for existence, for the only life to which we could cling no longer corresponds to anything actual, the only existence still based upon reality no longer meets our needs.”"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3499154756617174553\/comments\/default\/1334195751298082852"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3499154756617174553\/comments\/default\/1334195751298082852"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-1.html?showComment=1623829067803#c1334195751298082852","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-1.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3499154756617174553","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3499154756617174553","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/16\/2021 12:37:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-548752913763338461"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-16T00:19:27.493-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-16T00:19:27.493-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Why Capitalism Will Win\nGary North - August 29, 20..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Why Capitalism Will Win\u003Cbr \/\u003EGary North - August 29, 2015\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the first week of January, 1950, Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter was completing the final edits of a manuscript which he had delivered as a speech on December 30, 1949. The title was: \u0026quot;The March into Socialism.\u0026quot; He died before he finished the editing.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe article became a classic. It was reprinted in the third edition of his 1942 book: Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1950). The book has never been out of print.\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn his article, he argued that the success of the business class is in fact its own destruction. It had created a massive, centralized industrial structure, and the government was now going to come in and regulate it. He had seen this during World War II. Capitalist civilization was undermining the traditional Western family. It was going to be regulated by socialists. World War I killed laissez-faire, he said. Now World War II had completed the transition. Perennial inflation was weakening the social fabric of society. Price controls were universal. \u0026quot;In other words, price control may result in a surrender of private enterprise to public authority, that is, in a big stride toward the perfectly planned economy.\u0026quot; At that point, he died.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchumpeter was startlingly wrong. Economic growth has not declined. Economic growth was about to enjoy an extraordinary increase. What happened in Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea after 1950, and in China after 1979, has completely and utterly refuted Schumpeter.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESocialism as an ideology is finished today. There is almost nobody who calls himself a socialist, although Bernie Sanders is one.\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarxism is finished. Outside of North Korea, nobody calls himself a Marxist, except for the political elite in Communist China. But the economy over which they reign is not Communist, but basically Keynesian.\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaybe Fidel Castro and his brother still call themselves Communists, but the handwriting is on the wall in Havana. They have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe triumph of the Keynesian version of capitalism is so comprehensive that Schumpeter\u0026#39;s prediction looks silly in retrospect. How could he have been so blind?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe was right about what capitalists do. They send their children to the best universities, if their kids score high enough on the SAT to get in. But, lo and behold, the suicide of the Soviet Union in December 1991 was so startling and unexpected that, on campus, non-Marxist professors began snickering at their Marxist colleagues. This so humiliated their colleagues, that most of them decided to become democratic socialists, rather than remain out-of-date fuddy-duddies, calling vainly for the Revolution. As soon as it became unfashionable to be a Marxist on campus, Marxists became something else. The commitment in the faculty lounges to armed revolution was always more a matter of theory than practice. Academic tenure has this effect in most cases.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey still rant, but they are growing old. New causes have replaced socialism: feminism, multiculturalism, transgenderism, and global warming. None of these is causes is socialistic in the sense of the state\u0026#39;s ownership of the means of production.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.garynorth.com\/public\/14208.cfm\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3499154756617174553\/comments\/default\/548752913763338461"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3499154756617174553\/comments\/default\/548752913763338461"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-1.html?showComment=1623827967493#c548752913763338461","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-1.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3499154756617174553","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3499154756617174553","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/16\/2021 12:19:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2873705426725098456"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-16T00:19:05.744-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-16T00:19:05.744-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Entrepreneurship: Creative Production, Not Creativ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Entrepreneurship: Creative Production, Not Creative Destruction\u003Cbr \/\u003EGary North - February 15, 2017\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe free market\u0026#39;s process of enabling entrepreneurs to bring together resource sellers and product buyers should not be called creative destruction. It should be called creative production. It could also be called creative substitution. A successful entrepreneur goes to customers and makes them an offer: \u0026quot;Buy from me, not from my competitors. I will offer you a better deal.\u0026quot; He can afford to offer a better deal because he bought production goods at prices lower than his rivals did.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchumpeter borrowed the concept from a pair of revolutionists, Bakunin and Marx. They preached rival social philosophies that were both based on literal murder, not figurative murder. Schumpeter was impressed by their concept.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFelix Somary records in his autobiography, The Raven of Zurich (1986), a discussion he had with the economist Joseph Schumpeter and the sociologist Max Weber in 1918. Weber was the most prestigious academic social scientist in the world when he died in 1920. Schumpeter expressed happiness regarding the Russian Revolution. The USSR would be a test case for socialism. Weber warned that this would cause untold misery. Schumpeter replied, \u0026quot;That may well be, but it would be a good laboratory.\u0026quot; Weber responded, \u0026quot;A laboratory heaped with human corpses!\u0026quot; Schumpeter retorted, \u0026quot;Every anatomy classroom is the same thing.\u0026quot; Weber stormed out of the room (p. 121). I don\u0026#39;t blame him. (I am indebted to Mark Skousen for this reference.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECONCLUSION\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is time for defenders of the free market to abandon Schumpeter\u0026#39;s concept of the free market\u0026#39;s creative destruction. The concept is theoretically erroneous, as Murray Rothbard pointed out in 1987. But it is also a strategic liability. The market process is destructive for entrepreneurs who guessed wrong and failed to satisfy customers. It is creative for everyone else.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.garynorth.com\/public\/16244.cfm\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3499154756617174553\/comments\/default\/2873705426725098456"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3499154756617174553\/comments\/default\/2873705426725098456"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-1.html?showComment=1623827945744#c2873705426725098456","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/06\/how-i-became-critic-of-objectivism-1.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3499154756617174553","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3499154756617174553","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/16\/2021 12:19:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4105897935778907426"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-05T08:35:48.544-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-05T08:35:48.544-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Harry Binswanger.  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Rand read at least one paragraph of Kant (at the end).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=evvUklSCTKo\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJohn Estes\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6239100466406655247\/comments\/default\/4105897935778907426"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6239100466406655247\/comments\/default\/4105897935778907426"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/primary-reasons-for-not-becoming.html?showComment=1622907348544#c4105897935778907426","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/primary-reasons-for-not-becoming.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6239100466406655247","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6239100466406655247","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/05\/2021 08:35:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8540786736135172967"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-30T17:21:16.157-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-30T17:21:16.157-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Maybe we should defund the universities!\n\nWhose \u0026q..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EMaybe we should defund the universities!\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhose \u0026quot;we\u0026quot;? I would gladly see the universities defunded but I have absolutely zero say in the matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EInstead it is obvious that Rand was really fantasy-oriented, considering that her main interests in life were movies, novels and plays.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat\u0026#39;s an interesting theory suggesting Rand\u0026#39;s lack of realism arose from her interest in movies, novels, plays --- i.e., fiction. But perhaps a larger reason stemmed from an understandable desire to think she could control what happens in society. Since she had no political power (or the capacity to get it) she convinced herself that something she could do --- i.e., write books, dabble in ideas --- could work to change both individuals and society."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6239100466406655247\/comments\/default\/8540786736135172967"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6239100466406655247\/comments\/default\/8540786736135172967"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/primary-reasons-for-not-becoming.html?showComment=1622420476157#c8540786736135172967","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/primary-reasons-for-not-becoming.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6239100466406655247","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6239100466406655247","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/30\/2021 05:21:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5973824818130939461"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-29T09:10:43.474-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-29T09:10:43.474-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;Woke\u0026quot; leftism is an occupational hazard..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;Woke\u0026quot; leftism is an occupational hazard of academicians just as black lung disease\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Eis an occupational hazard of coal miners.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaybe we should defund the universities!"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6239100466406655247\/comments\/default\/5973824818130939461"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6239100466406655247\/comments\/default\/5973824818130939461"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/primary-reasons-for-not-becoming.html?showComment=1622304643474#c5973824818130939461","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/primary-reasons-for-not-becoming.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6239100466406655247","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6239100466406655247","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/29\/2021 09:10:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-310236334187477354"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-26T21:50:37.890-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-26T21:50:37.890-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"If Objectivism worked, Operating Objectivists woul..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"If Objectivism worked, Operating Objectivists would display abilities that approach the level of useful superpowers, and they would obviously be successful in transforming the world.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead it is obvious that Rand was really fantasy-oriented, considering that her main interests in life were movies, novels and plays. "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6239100466406655247\/comments\/default\/310236334187477354"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6239100466406655247\/comments\/default\/310236334187477354"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/primary-reasons-for-not-becoming.html?showComment=1622091037890#c310236334187477354","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Albionic American"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/primary-reasons-for-not-becoming.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6239100466406655247","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6239100466406655247","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/26\/2021 09:50:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5946568827526627476"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-26T04:28:46.029-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-26T04:28:46.029-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"You might find this recent video from Binswanger i..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"You might find this recent video from Binswanger interesting.  He doesn\u0026#39;t know much about evolution or evolutionary psychology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8np1_a2ezYk\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E-Johnny 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haven\u0026#39;t."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/8853421688598936359\/comments\/default\/3324853407198735254"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/8853421688598936359\/comments\/default\/3324853407198735254"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/new-book-faux-rationality-of-ayn-rand.html?showComment=1621899111234#c3324853407198735254","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/new-book-faux-rationality-of-ayn-rand.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8853421688598936359","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/8853421688598936359","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/24\/2021 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review?"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/8853421688598936359\/comments\/default\/2891708825827168735"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/8853421688598936359\/comments\/default\/2891708825827168735"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/new-book-faux-rationality-of-ayn-rand.html?showComment=1621710468539#c2891708825827168735","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/new-book-faux-rationality-of-ayn-rand.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8853421688598936359","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/8853421688598936359","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/22\/2021 12:07:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1349318463908579315"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-09T15:54:55.602-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-09T15:54:55.602-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Faux--not genuine; fake or false\nof course, exampl..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Faux--not genuine; fake or false\u003Cbr \/\u003Eof course, example:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHarold J. Berman:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI start from the fact that every legal order requires for its vitality the support of a belief system that links law not only with morality but also with fundamental convictions about human nature and human destiny. This is an anthropological truism, not a theological proposition,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn all societies religion and law, in the broad sense of those words, are interdependent and interact with each other. In all societies there are shared beliefs in transcendent values, shared commitments to an ultimate purpose, a shared sense of the holy: certain things are sacred. And in all societies, there are structures and processes of social ordering, established methods of allocating rights and duties, a shared sense of the just: Certain things are lawful.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReligion of the Intellectuals by Harold J. Berman\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is supposed by some – especially intellectuals – that fundamental legal principles, whether of democracy or of socialism, can survive without any religious or quasi-religious foundations on the basis of the proper political and economic controls and a philosophy of humanism. History, however, including current history, testifies otherwise: people will not give their allegiance to a political and economic system, and even less to a philosophy, unless it represents for them a higher, sacred truth. People will desert institutions that do not seem to them to correspond to some transcendent reality in which they believe – believe in with their whole beings, and not just believe about, with their minds. That is why countries of democracy and socialism that have abandoned traditional religions turn ultimately to religions of race, of country, or of class (or of all three). The intellectuals feel betrayed by this; they continually anticipate that people will develop a new style of consciousness, secular and rational like their own, but they do not realize that their own belief in political and economic systems and in a humanist philosophy is equally transrational and equally self-interested – it is the religion of the intellectual."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/8853421688598936359\/comments\/default\/1349318463908579315"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/8853421688598936359\/comments\/default\/1349318463908579315"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/new-book-faux-rationality-of-ayn-rand.html?showComment=1620600895602#c1349318463908579315","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/new-book-faux-rationality-of-ayn-rand.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8853421688598936359","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/8853421688598936359","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/09\/2021 03:54:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3806688199609609722"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-09T10:45:33.321-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-09T10:45:33.321-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"If Objectivism lived up to its True Believers\u0026#39;..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"If Objectivism lived up to its True Believers\u0026#39; advertising, Operating Objectivists could demonstrate something like superpowers. "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/8853421688598936359\/comments\/default\/3806688199609609722"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/8853421688598936359\/comments\/default\/3806688199609609722"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/new-book-faux-rationality-of-ayn-rand.html?showComment=1620582333321#c3806688199609609722","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Albionic American"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/new-book-faux-rationality-of-ayn-rand.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8853421688598936359","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/8853421688598936359","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/09\/2021 10:45:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1280166868154292869"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-04T12:55:06.447-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-04T12:55:06.447-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"well jeez greg some peer review would be nice just..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"well jeez greg some peer review would be nice just sayin"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/8853421688598936359\/comments\/default\/1280166868154292869"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/8853421688598936359\/comments\/default\/1280166868154292869"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/new-book-faux-rationality-of-ayn-rand.html?showComment=1620158106447#c1280166868154292869","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/new-book-faux-rationality-of-ayn-rand.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8853421688598936359","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/8853421688598936359","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/04\/2021 12:55:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6851440035158927902"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-04T02:14:34.780-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-04T02:14:34.780-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Well, the disjointed grammar and all-caps list of ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Well, the disjointed grammar and all-caps list of every disease ever certainly has *me* convinced."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/524256629571726141\/comments\/default\/6851440035158927902"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/524256629571726141\/comments\/default\/6851440035158927902"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/03\/peikoff-vs-ari.html?showComment=1620119674780#c6851440035158927902","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Some Gullible Dumbass"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/03\/peikoff-vs-ari.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-524256629571726141","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/524256629571726141","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/04\/2021 02:14:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6339687679987228271"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-02T09:59:02.524-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-02T09:59:02.524-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"My name is Donald boykins , and I am here to appre..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"My name is Donald boykins , and I am here to appreciate Dr Akhigbe for using his herbal medicine to cure my Herpes virus. Is about 3 years and 6 months now I have been living with this virus and it has been a serious problem to me, I was so confused cause i have been taking several drugs to be cured but all of my effort was in vain,one morning I was browsing through the internet then I saw several testimonies about Dr. Akhigbe curing people from Herpes virus and immediately i contacted Dr. Akhigbe on his email: drrealakhigbe@gmail.com, i told him about my troubles and he told me that i must be cured, he gave me some instructions and which i rightly followed. so he prepared a herbal medicine and sent it to me which i used for 2 weeks and i was cured everything was like a dream to me and my Herpes virus was totally gone, dr .Akhigbe, God bless you and give you more power and ability for more cure.I don\u0026#39;t know if there is anyone out there suffering for herpes virus or any of these diseases..DIABETES, CANCER,  HIV\/AIDS, HERPES HEPATITiS A AND B. FEVER, EPILEPSY, MENINGITIS, DENGUE SCHIZOPHRENIA, PROSTATE, THYROID, BACTERIA, MALARIA, DICK AND BREAST ENLARGEMENT,MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, TUBERCULOSIS, DIARRHEA, POLIO, LOW BLOOD PRESSURE,  INSOMNIA,ARTHMA, LUPUS,  RABIES, JOINT PAIN, STOMACH PAIN, HYPEROPIA, ANTI VIRUS, MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, HEART DISEASE, CHRONIC DISEASE,EPILEPSY, LUPUS, STROKE, SPINAL CORD INJURY, ECZEMA, KIDNEY DISEASE, ACME,  KAWASAKI, BACK PAIN etc. why don\u0026#39;t you contact dr.Akhigbe today and be free from your diseases because he is very good and honest Doctor and he is also called the godfather of herbal root contact him via email; drrealakhigbe@gmail.com or whatsApp him on                     +2348025012866\u003Cbr \/\u003Ewebsite https:drrealakhigbe.weebly.com  "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/524256629571726141\/comments\/default\/6339687679987228271"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/524256629571726141\/comments\/default\/6339687679987228271"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/03\/peikoff-vs-ari.html?showComment=1619974742524#c6339687679987228271","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Donald Boykins"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/03\/peikoff-vs-ari.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-524256629571726141","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/524256629571726141","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/02\/2021 09:59:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5772638153276529476"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-01T17:33:06.667-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-01T17:33:06.667-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"can anyone \u0026quot;rule\u0026quot; or run capitalism? Sur..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003Ecan anyone \u0026quot;rule\u0026quot; or run capitalism? Surely it obeys it\u0026#39;s own rules and woe betide anyone that tries to reform or change them.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile no single individual or group of individuals on the present scene would likely be able to \u0026quot;control\u0026quot; capitalism, there have been people in the past who\u0026#39;ve exercise some degree of control: Theodore Roosevelt with his trust busting, Franklin Roosevelt with the New Deal industrial policy (which admittedly was a complete disaster), and even Trump who, despite all his many flaws, had some impact through his trade policy and the forcefulness of his personality. At the same time you have a plutocratic ruling elite that is in serious decline. When plutocratic elites become decadent, they become softer, milder, more \u0026quot;humane\u0026quot; (i.e, they become \u0026quot;weaker\u0026quot; and more cowardly) while at the same time becoming more rapacious and eager for the goods of others. And that\u0026#39;s essentially what we\u0026#39;re seeing: \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;woke\u0026quot; humanitarianism  has taken on grotesque proportions within the cultural portions of the elite, while at the same time corporate interests have sold out the working class and small business owners to China and the Third World. Worse, their corporate\/progressive creatures in government are piling up huge amounts of public debt at a shocking rate while at the same time creating huge amounts of money out of thin air (35 cents of every Federal dollar in 2020), and these elites have absolutely zero concern about any of it. In other words, they\u0026#39;re digging their own graveyard — which is why I don\u0026#39;t believe they\u0026#39;re fit to rule. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/524256629571726141\/comments\/default\/5772638153276529476"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/524256629571726141\/comments\/default\/5772638153276529476"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/03\/peikoff-vs-ari.html?showComment=1619915586667#c5772638153276529476","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/03\/peikoff-vs-ari.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-524256629571726141","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/524256629571726141","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/01\/2021 05:33:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5923381325691111522"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-01T13:41:35.648-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-01T13:41:35.648-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Here is  my testimony on how I was cured of HIV by..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Here is  my testimony on how I was cured of HIV by Dr Akhigbe,with his natural herbal medicine.  on a regular basis in efforts to help others when I could. As you may know, each donation is tested.  Well, on July 6th I had a meeting with a Red Cross representative and was told that I had HIV. “What went through your mind when you heard that \u0026quot;Rose\u0026quot; Good question reader! To be honest, I thought my life was over, that I would ever find love, get married, have children or anything normal. Lucky for me I have an amazing support system.  My family supported me then I never thought that I was invincible to STD s or pregnancy or anything else parents warn their kids about. I just didn’t think about it. I was in a monogamous relationship and thought that I asked the right questions.  We even talked about marriage Scary.  During that time I was in college and donated blood on a re as well. who helped me in search of cure through the media.there we saw a good testimony of sister \u0026#39;Kate\u0026#39; about the good work of Dr Akhigbe natural herbal medicine cure.then I copied his email address and contacted him. A good herbalist doctor with a good heart, he is kind, loving and caring. He replied back to my message and told me what to do. After a week the doctor sent me my herbal medicine and instructed me how to take it.Yes it worked very well, after drinking it I went to the hospital for another test and everything turned negative. What a wonderful testimony I can never forget in my life. Dr Akhigbe is a man who gave me a life to live happily forever so all I want you all to believe and know that cure of HIV is real and herbs is a powerful medicine and it works and heals.  Dr Akhigbe also used his herbal medicine to cure diseases like:   HERPES, DIABETES, SCABIES, HEPATITIS A\/B, STROKE, CANCER, ALS, TUBERCULOSIS, ASTHMA, PENIS ENLARGEMENT, MALARIA, LUPUS, LIVER CIRRHOSIS, DEPRESSION, HIV\/AIDS, EPILEPSY, BACTERIAL, DIARRHEA, HEART DISEASES, HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, PARKINSON\u0026#39;S, ALZHEIMER, COLD URTICARIA, HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS,INSOMNIA,  BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS, SCHIZOPHRENIA, JOINT PAIN, STOMACH PAIN, CHROME DISEASES, CHLAMYDIA, INSOMNIA HEARTBURN, ,  THYROID, MAR BURG DISEASES, MENINGITIS, ARTHRITIS, BODY WEAK, ANTI VIRUS, SMALLPOX, DENGUE, FEVER, CURBS, CHANCRE, AND OTHERS VARIOUS DISEASES\/ VIRUS.   You are there and you find yourself in any of these situations, kindly contact Dr Akhigbe now to help you get rid of it. Here is his email address: \u003Cbr \/\u003E   drrealakhigbe@gmail.com      or you can write to him on whats app with his phone number:   +2348025012866\u003Cbr \/\u003E  My appreciation is to share his testimony for the world to know the good work Dr Akhigbe has done for me and he will do the same for you.\u003Cbr \/\u003E   "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4790110483003658578\/comments\/default\/5923381325691111522"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4790110483003658578\/comments\/default\/5923381325691111522"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/molyneux-and-objectivist-tradition-2.html?showComment=1619901695648#c5923381325691111522","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Rose Jurgen"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/molyneux-and-objectivist-tradition-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4790110483003658578","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4790110483003658578","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/01\/2021 01:41:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7042235904733172059"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-01T13:24:52.341-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-01T13:24:52.341-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Here is  my testimony on how I was cured of HIV by..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Here is  my testimony on how I was cured of HIV by Dr Akhigbe,with his natural herbal medicine.  on a regular basis in efforts to help others when I could. As you may know, each donation is tested.  Well, on July 6th I had a meeting with a Red Cross representative and was told that I had HIV. “What went through your mind when you heard that \u0026quot;Rose\u0026quot; Good question reader! To be honest, I thought my life was over, that I would ever find love, get married, have children or anything normal. Lucky for me I have an amazing support system.  My family supported me then I never thought that I was invincible to STD s or pregnancy or anything else parents warn their kids about. I just didn’t think about it. I was in a monogamous relationship and thought that I asked the right questions.  We even talked about marriage Scary.  During that time I was in college and donated blood on a re as well. who helped me in search of cure through the media.there we saw a good testimony of sister \u0026#39;Kate\u0026#39; about the good work of Dr Akhigbe natural herbal medicine cure.then I copied his email address and contacted him. A good herbalist doctor with a good heart, he is kind, loving and caring. He replied back to my message and told me what to do. After a week the doctor sent me my herbal medicine and instructed me how to take it.Yes it worked very well, after drinking it I went to the hospital for another test and everything turned negative. What a wonderful testimony I can never forget in my life. Dr Akhigbe is a man who gave me a life to live happily forever so all I want you all to believe and know that cure of HIV is real and herbs is a powerful medicine and it works and heals.  Dr Akhigbe also used his herbal medicine to cure diseases like:   HERPES, DIABETES, SCABIES, HEPATITIS A\/B, STROKE, CANCER, ALS, TUBERCULOSIS, ASTHMA, PENIS ENLARGEMENT, MALARIA, LUPUS, LIVER CIRRHOSIS, DEPRESSION, HIV\/AIDS, EPILEPSY, BACTERIAL, DIARRHEA, HEART DISEASES, HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, PARKINSON\u0026#39;S, ALZHEIMER, COLD URTICARIA, HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS,INSOMNIA,  BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS, SCHIZOPHRENIA, JOINT PAIN, STOMACH PAIN, CHROME DISEASES, CHLAMYDIA, INSOMNIA HEARTBURN, ,  THYROID, MAR BURG DISEASES, MENINGITIS, ARTHRITIS, BODY WEAK, ANTI VIRUS, SMALLPOX, DENGUE, FEVER, CURBS, CHANCRE, AND OTHERS VARIOUS DISEASES\/ VIRUS.   You are there and you find yourself in any of these situations, kindly contact Dr Akhigbe now to help you get rid of it. Here is his email address: \u003Cbr \/\u003E   drrealakhigbe@gmail.com      or you can write to him on whats app with his phone number:   +2348025012866\u003Cbr \/\u003E  My appreciation is to share his testimony for the world to know the good work Dr Akhigbe has done for me and he will do the same for you.\u003Cbr \/\u003E   "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5640096442733597351\/comments\/default\/7042235904733172059"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5640096442733597351\/comments\/default\/7042235904733172059"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/anne-heller-as-long-ago-as-2009.html?showComment=1619900692341#c7042235904733172059","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Rose Jurgen"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/anne-heller-as-long-ago-as-2009.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5640096442733597351","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5640096442733597351","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/01\/2021 01:24:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-935299120685578439"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-30T13:46:35.430-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-30T13:46:35.430-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Just to pick up on your last point Greg, can anyon..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Just to pick up on your last point Greg, can anyone \u0026quot;rule\u0026quot; or run capitalism?  Surely it obeys it\u0026#39;s own rules and woe betide anyone that tries to reform or change them."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/524256629571726141\/comments\/default\/935299120685578439"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/524256629571726141\/comments\/default\/935299120685578439"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/03\/peikoff-vs-ari.html?showComment=1619815595430#c935299120685578439","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/03\/peikoff-vs-ari.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-524256629571726141","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/524256629571726141","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/30\/2021 01:46:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2954879096775915709"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-22T17:12:49.136-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-22T17:12:49.136-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"but an electronic boot stomping on a human face is..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003Ebut an electronic boot stomping on a human face is still a boot.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is why \u0026quot;laissez-faire\u0026quot; is a slogan, not a coherent policy position. Are corporations products of \u0026quot;laissez-faire\u0026quot; or not? Nobody can tell, because the real world is a lot more complicated. It was easy sixty, seventy years ago to dismiss James Burnham\u0026#39;s \u0026quot;The Managerial State\u0026quot; out of hand because of all the false predictions; and similar objections might be essayed against some of the pesssimistic points of Schumpeter\u0026#39;s \u0026quot;Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy.\u0026quot; But the concerns of these books with the corporate form of organization is now beginning to appear increasingly prescient. I certainly see advantages in corporations when it comes to raising capital and economies of scale, but we\u0026#39;re paying increasingly high costs in other areas, especially in how these corporations have created new forms of \u0026quot;social\u0026quot; power which they\u0026#39;ve placed in the service of a deeply corrupt and decadent ruling elite. Rand\u0026#39;s mind could imagine only one kind of tyranny — that of the Soveit Union, which she wound up trivializing in the inept villians of Atlas Shrugged. With nothing going on but Rand\u0026#39;s limited view, Yaron Brook becomes the unwitting shill of the new managerial state run by people not fit to rule."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/524256629571726141\/comments\/default\/2954879096775915709"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/524256629571726141\/comments\/default\/2954879096775915709"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/03\/peikoff-vs-ari.html?showComment=1619136769136#c2954879096775915709","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/03\/peikoff-vs-ari.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-524256629571726141","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/524256629571726141","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/22\/2021 05:12:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8183561419974420016"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-09T08:42:30.077-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-09T08:42:30.077-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Get the best essay from  WritePaper.Info A team of..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Get the best essay from  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/WritePaper.Info\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EWritePaper.Info\u003C\/a\u003E A team of professional authors with huge experience will give u a result that will overcome your expectations."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/116139295693202048\/comments\/default\/8183561419974420016"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/116139295693202048\/comments\/default\/8183561419974420016"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/cringe-and-win-5-most-embarrassing.html?showComment=1617982950077#c8183561419974420016","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Jen"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/writepaper.info"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/cringe-and-win-5-most-embarrassing.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-116139295693202048","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/116139295693202048","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/09\/2021 08:42:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7041986543301730467"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-01T16:08:18.145-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-01T16:08:18.145-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Yaron Brook\u0026#39;s debate with Harmeet Dhillon here..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Yaron Brook\u0026#39;s debate with Harmeet Dhillon here https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Uc_qpqhOWDI  is a great example of how the current Objectivist standard bearer (the title of Ayn Rand\u0026#39;s \u0026quot;intellectual heir\u0026quot; won\u0026#39;t do) is helping to make Objectivism irrelevant. In it he simultaneously defends big tech\u0026#39;s Section 230 immunity for liability for what people say on their social media platforms and their corporate free speech right to restrict what people say on those platforms. Under the Brook doctrine, the tech companies are using their customers as mere mouthpieces to say only what the companies wish to say; then cloaking in immunity for that speech as though somebody else said it. Brook\u0026#39;s capacious mixture of responsibility and irresponsibility is not only self-contradictory cake-having-eating on a conceptual level but entails precisely the sort of government interference in markets that Objectivists supposedly rail against. Naturally he condemns anti-trust laws with exceptional verve and he defends the menacing status quo as hunky-dory - but an electronic boot stomping on a human face is still a boot. While Rand had no problem with oligarchy, Brook\u0026#39;s didactic bombing of the current situation is value-free, disconnected from reality, and sounds insane. Well done."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/524256629571726141\/comments\/default\/7041986543301730467"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/524256629571726141\/comments\/default\/7041986543301730467"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/03\/peikoff-vs-ari.html?showComment=1617318498145#c7041986543301730467","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anon69"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/03\/peikoff-vs-ari.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-524256629571726141","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/524256629571726141","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/01\/2021 04:08:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8369402317097356486"},"published":{"$t":"2021-03-14T08:36:43.067-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-03-14T08:36:43.067-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The issue between Peikoff and Brook\/ARI seems to h..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The issue between Peikoff and Brook\/ARI seems to have a lot to do with immigration.  Peikoff thinks immigrants will inevitably vote left.  OTOH, I don\u0026#39;t get the impression Barney is an immigration restrictionist."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/524256629571726141\/comments\/default\/8369402317097356486"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/524256629571726141\/comments\/default\/8369402317097356486"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/03\/peikoff-vs-ari.html?showComment=1615736203067#c8369402317097356486","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/03\/peikoff-vs-ari.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-524256629571726141","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/524256629571726141","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/14\/2021 08:36:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3311402029960014577"},"published":{"$t":"2021-03-07T14:51:04.524-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-03-07T14:51:04.524-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"oh go ahead \u0026amp; give a grudging nod...\nhttp:\/\/ww..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"oh go ahead \u0026amp; give a grudging nod...\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.ariwatch.com\/"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/524256629571726141\/comments\/default\/3311402029960014577"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/524256629571726141\/comments\/default\/3311402029960014577"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/03\/peikoff-vs-ari.html?showComment=1615157464524#c3311402029960014577","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/03\/peikoff-vs-ari.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-524256629571726141","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/524256629571726141","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/07\/2021 02:51:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4325301767306554325"},"published":{"$t":"2021-02-24T13:08:25.076-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-02-24T13:08:25.076-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Well I can\u0026#39;t imagine they\u0026#39;d use the term \u0026..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Well I can\u0026#39;t imagine they\u0026#39;d use the term \u0026quot;donation\u0026quot;, as that would have connotations of charity!"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5640096442733597351\/comments\/default\/4325301767306554325"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5640096442733597351\/comments\/default\/4325301767306554325"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/anne-heller-as-long-ago-as-2009.html?showComment=1614200905076#c4325301767306554325","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/anne-heller-as-long-ago-as-2009.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5640096442733597351","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5640096442733597351","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"2\/24\/2021 01:08:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4563498183786915103"},"published":{"$t":"2021-02-22T05:56:59.580-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-02-22T05:56:59.580-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Great article. As always! I’m about to start natur..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Great article. As always! I’m about to start\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/naturelifeaayurveda.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E naturelifeaayurveda \u003C\/a\u003E working on a blog on my website and although\u003Cbr \/\u003E someone else will be producing it for us, this article will be a great help to make sure \u003Cbr \/\u003Ethat we’re on the right track to creating successful, engaging content. Thanks!"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4918175738512754182\/comments\/default\/4563498183786915103"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4918175738512754182\/comments\/default\/4563498183786915103"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/howard-roark-in-new-delhi.html?showComment=1614002219580#c4563498183786915103","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"naturelifeaayurveda"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01524239205179743229"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/howard-roark-in-new-delhi.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4918175738512754182","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4918175738512754182","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1212454454"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"2\/22\/2021 05:56:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8833769851440803532"},"published":{"$t":"2021-02-20T19:14:40.892-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-02-20T19:14:40.892-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Harry and Peikoff were trying to explain, but taki..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Harry and Peikoff were trying to explain, but taking their comments out of context misses everything else they say which illuminates. Rand actually does a great job of explaining this as does Peikoff and Binswager. The whole thing is swept aside by the axioms. To understand this one must look beyond Descartes and Hobbes, as Rand, Peikoff and Binswager say they are really two of the same thing, the spiritualists, or idealist, or dualist, or rationalists, or in objectivist terms Intrincisist, vs the materialist, skeptics, monist, empiricist, or in objectivist terms the subjectivist are really the same thing it\u0026#39;s why Rand says \u0026quot;they are two sides of the same coin both symbols of death\u0026quot; it is not simply a value issue, it covers values, epistemology and metaphysics(as wel as politics and art). \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou have to take a 10,000 mile view to fully appreciate it, but its contained in the axioms. The dualist or rationalist or idealist postulates a mind without a body, or a mind disconnected from a body, or a mind disconnected from reality, a mind that has total knowledge and omniscience, a \u0026quot;world of forms\u0026quot; or a supernatural realm, a mind that stands above the physical world and the materialist, or monist says \u0026quot;true enough\u0026quot; if that is the mind then there is no mind, if knowledge means omniscience then there is no knowledge only subjective whim, or nominalism. But again, they are refuted both the same by the axioms Rand identifies, both the rationalist\/spiritualist\/intrincisist and the empiricist\/materialist\/subjectivist have to smuggle in the other part. In order for the materialist to say that there is no mind only a mechanistic body, or that there is no certainty \u0026quot;people disagree\u0026quot; \u0026quot;they have their own experience\u0026quot; they have to smuggle in certainty and consciousness, for there is no disagreement and no experience without a mind. This isn\u0026#39;t dualism its objectivism."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6633112374842189118\/comments\/default\/8833769851440803532"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6633112374842189118\/comments\/default\/8833769851440803532"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/objectivist-myths-2-rand-solved_14.html?showComment=1613877280892#c8833769851440803532","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Ryan"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/16483321770071397984"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/objectivist-myths-2-rand-solved_14.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6633112374842189118","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6633112374842189118","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-243274861"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"2\/20\/2021 07:14:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2321266908008766457"},"published":{"$t":"2021-02-14T07:40:53.500-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-02-14T07:40:53.500-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"You are confusing the metaphysical with the man ma..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"You are confusing the metaphysical with the man made, replacing the what with the how. "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1336996399344439001\/comments\/default\/2321266908008766457"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1336996399344439001\/comments\/default\/2321266908008766457"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/objectivism-metaphysics-part-2.html?showComment=1613317253500#c2321266908008766457","title":""},{"rel":"related","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1336996399344439001\/comments\/default\/932525991261873345"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Ryan"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/16483321770071397984"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/objectivism-metaphysics-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1336996399344439001","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1336996399344439001","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-243274861"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"2\/14\/2021 07:40:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3139587789280572160"},"published":{"$t":"2021-02-10T15:25:31.965-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-02-10T15:25:31.965-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;Subs\u0026quot;? Do they really use that term? In..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;Subs\u0026quot;? Do they really use that term? In the Trotskyist cult I was a part of we used a similar term..."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5640096442733597351\/comments\/default\/3139587789280572160"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5640096442733597351\/comments\/default\/3139587789280572160"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/anne-heller-as-long-ago-as-2009.html?showComment=1612999531965#c3139587789280572160","title":""},{"rel":"related","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5640096442733597351\/comments\/default\/6700716649154128330"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Aaron Kyereh-Mireku"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12365609194210499026"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-AWcQ1M_u6Wg\/X875uKlV28I\/AAAAAAAABaI\/zP11-6vz02oFTWREVPxD7NTCFzyGirF8QCK4BGAYYCw\/s220\/R-1768251-1325419239.jpeg.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/anne-heller-as-long-ago-as-2009.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5640096442733597351","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5640096442733597351","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1180795247"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"2\/10\/2021 03:25:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7730850282998960895"},"published":{"$t":"2021-01-27T18:01:43.857-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-01-27T18:01:43.857-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Anonymous #1 said:\n\n\u0026quot;any organization can tur..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Anonymous #1 said:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;any organization can turn from being dedicated to promoting a type of thought or an ideal into merely being interested in keeping the organization financially viable and paying everyone their salaries\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECurrently no one exposes the corruption and grifting of the ARI, in my opinion, better than the proprietor of ariwatch.com does."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5640096442733597351\/comments\/default\/7730850282998960895"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5640096442733597351\/comments\/default\/7730850282998960895"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/anne-heller-as-long-ago-as-2009.html?showComment=1611799303857#c7730850282998960895","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Konstantin Xablonski"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/anne-heller-as-long-ago-as-2009.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5640096442733597351","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5640096442733597351","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/27\/2021 06:01:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6683312768259807729"},"published":{"$t":"2021-01-27T04:03:03.911-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-01-27T04:03:03.911-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"It\u0026#39;s funny that you allude to Rand\u0026#39;s hosti..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"It\u0026#39;s funny that you allude to Rand\u0026#39;s hostility towards children, because I keep trolling Objectivists about that. They talk a lot lately about \u0026quot;human flourishing,\u0026quot; like Alex Epstein, a 40-year-old childless bachelor who lives in a California beach house, a lifestyle he can apparently afford because of his grift about arguing for the morality of using fossil fuels. But human flourishing in the most literal sense means a culture where young men and women pair up in marriage and start families. This idea is alien to Rand\u0026#39;s world view, and it sheds light on why Objectivism as a social phenomenon has failed to thrive: Objectivists refuse to fight the war of the cradle because women\u0026#39;s natural functions, apart from sterile recreational sex, apparently grossed out their cult\u0026#39;s founder.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Eironically many American Marxists back in the 1940\u0026#39;s and 1950\u0026#39;s, when Rand wrote her big novels, were marrying and giving birth to \u0026quot;red diaper babies.\u0026quot; I know a guy in his 70\u0026#39;s who claims that he came from one of those families. Those Marxists were flourishing by objective standards better than most of Rand\u0026#39;s followers. "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5640096442733597351\/comments\/default\/6683312768259807729"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5640096442733597351\/comments\/default\/6683312768259807729"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/anne-heller-as-long-ago-as-2009.html?showComment=1611748983911#c6683312768259807729","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Albionic American"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/anne-heller-as-long-ago-as-2009.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5640096442733597351","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5640096442733597351","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/27\/2021 04:03:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6700716649154128330"},"published":{"$t":"2021-01-18T10:45:20.269-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-01-18T10:45:20.269-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I think the difficulty is how do you make Rands id..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I think the difficulty is how do you make Rands ideas popular?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDoes our society make Rands ideas more attractive?  I doubt it, as she is virtually unknown outside of the US.  The BBC held a poll on whom the public thought were the 100 most popular philosophers ever.  Surprise, surprise she didn\u0026#39;t make it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI did ask Objectivists in the UK what the plan was.  It no longer is relying on John Galts to stop the motor of the World.  Their plan was to objectivist philosophers and economists employed into UK universities.  They then would teach students objectivists philosophy and economics and therefor that would then lead to change.  The only problem was they didn\u0026#39;t have any!  Candidates for these positions I mean.  Another problem was would be they would have to teach a curriculum that has no place for Ayn Rand.  Even if you can get over these two hurdles you are then faced with the old adage, you lead a horse to water but you can\u0026#39;t make it drink.  You could teach me 40 hours a week for a year about Objectivism, what are they chances I\u0026#39;ll turn into an objectivist?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ebut I do feel that one people will be fed up paying their monthly subs.  If you pay $20 a month and $19.50 is for salaries.  Then you might as well just but copies of her books and hand them out for free on street corners."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5640096442733597351\/comments\/default\/6700716649154128330"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5640096442733597351\/comments\/default\/6700716649154128330"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/anne-heller-as-long-ago-as-2009.html?showComment=1610995520269#c6700716649154128330","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/anne-heller-as-long-ago-as-2009.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5640096442733597351","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5640096442733597351","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/18\/2021 10:45:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5808030643836067083"},"published":{"$t":"2021-01-18T08:44:48.374-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-01-18T08:44:48.374-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Heller said recently that she did eventually get a..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Heller said recently that she did eventually get access to the Archives and nothing she found there changed her conclusions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt\u0026#39;s too bad that certain ARI types keep claiming that the Branden books are dishonest.  "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5640096442733597351\/comments\/default\/5808030643836067083"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5640096442733597351\/comments\/default\/5808030643836067083"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/anne-heller-as-long-ago-as-2009.html?showComment=1610988288374#c5808030643836067083","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/anne-heller-as-long-ago-as-2009.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5640096442733597351","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5640096442733597351","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/18\/2021 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03:36:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5168178347664501943"},"published":{"$t":"2021-01-15T12:06:50.274-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-01-15T12:06:50.274-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"شركة كشف تسربات المياه في دبي\nشركة كشف تسربات المي..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/cleaninginsects.com\/%d8%b4%d8%b1%d9%83%d8%a9-%d9%83%d8%b4%d9%81-%d8%aa%d8%b3%d8%b1%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%a7%d9%87-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%af%d8%a8%d9%8a\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Eشركة كشف تسربات المياه في دبي\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/cleaninginsects.com\/%d8%b4%d8%b1%d9%83%d8%a9-%d9%83%d8%b4%d9%81-%d8%aa%d8%b3%d8%b1%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%a7%d9%87-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b4%d8%a7%d8%b1%d9%82%d8%a9\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Eشركة كشف تسربات المياه في الشارقة\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca 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I am really impressed with your writi..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Thanks mate. I am really impressed with your writing talents and also with the layout on your weblog. Appreciate, Is this a paid subject matter or did you customize it yourself? Either way keep up the nice quality writing, it is rare to peer a nice weblog like this one nowadays. Thank you, check also \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ydc4485a\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Eyuk usaha\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.yukusaha.id\/teknik-budidaya-tanaman-hidroponik\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ETeknik Budidaya Hidroponik\u003C\/a\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7598854233793192180\/comments\/default\/7858884766100619152"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7598854233793192180\/comments\/default\/7858884766100619152"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/objectivist-roundup-march.html?showComment=1608305816041#c7858884766100619152","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Rian"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00834074347641593111"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/objectivist-roundup-march.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7598854233793192180","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7598854233793192180","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1220951259"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"12\/18\/2020 07:36:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2616599614263912609"},"published":{"$t":"2020-12-17T07:53:41.144-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-12-17T07:53:41.144-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026gt;Where did Rand pick up the notion that Kant\u0026#3..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026gt;Where did Rand pick up the notion that Kant\u0026#39;s philosophical aim was to destroy reason to make way for faith and mysticism?\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn one of the Prefaces of Critique of Pure Reason written by Kant himself, you fucking bastard."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/2481819722473391938\/comments\/default\/2616599614263912609"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/2481819722473391938\/comments\/default\/2616599614263912609"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/intellectual-sources-of-rands-view-of.html?showComment=1608220421144#c2616599614263912609","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/intellectual-sources-of-rands-view-of.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2481819722473391938","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/2481819722473391938","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"12\/17\/2020 07:53:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2731817741673008656"},"published":{"$t":"2020-11-28T07:00:34.351-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-11-28T07:00:34.351-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"What is interesting about Heller\u0026#39;s comments is..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"What is interesting about Heller\u0026#39;s comments is that her book came out in 2009 and she was denied access to the ARI\u0026#39;s archives.  At some point she did get access and she says nothing in them changed her appraisal of Rand.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo it looks like Rand biographer Shoshana Milgram is going to have a hard time saying that the 3 bios of Rand (Branden, Burns and Heller) are seriously flawed.  Maybe that\u0026#39;s why she\u0026#39;s taking her time."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1929818806286265334\/comments\/default\/2731817741673008656"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1929818806286265334\/comments\/default\/2731817741673008656"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/molyneux-and-objectivist-tradition-4.html?showComment=1606575634351#c2731817741673008656","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01620185304906947376"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/molyneux-and-objectivist-tradition-4.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1929818806286265334","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1929818806286265334","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1699884512"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11\/28\/2020 07:00:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3820382935514507205"},"published":{"$t":"2020-11-27T07:30:32.411-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-11-27T07:30:32.411-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"New Interview with Rand biographer, Anne Heller.\n\n..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"New Interview with Rand biographer, Anne Heller.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UCSoc7ZP9r8\u0026amp;fbclid=IwAR1H8qyMLsJyxcs3SvoxyG_LJUj92T7mj4LooimvtYAUj16GXuYI8jq257M\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1929818806286265334\/comments\/default\/3820382935514507205"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1929818806286265334\/comments\/default\/3820382935514507205"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/molyneux-and-objectivist-tradition-4.html?showComment=1606491032411#c3820382935514507205","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01620185304906947376"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/molyneux-and-objectivist-tradition-4.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1929818806286265334","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1929818806286265334","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1699884512"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11\/27\/2020 07:30:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5200133136907756550"},"published":{"$t":"2020-11-26T14:46:55.582-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-11-26T14:46:55.582-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Gary North:\n\nThe Quest for Political Unity\n\nThe To..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Gary North:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Quest for Political Unity\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Tower-builders wanted to make a name for themselves. They wanted to establish their own definition, independent of God and His plan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAutonomous men cannot escape the vision of the Tower. They want to achieve the outward manifestation of their own status as masters of the universe.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe hear a lot about a coming one-world religion which will accompany the Antichrist\u0026#39;s one-world State. This New World Order is supposed to be built by a planning elite (old liberalism) or by enlightened cooperating groups (New Age version). This New World Order will be a fusion of economics, politics, technology, and religion. Writers of paperback Bible prophecy books devote lots of space to discussing the nature of this coming world religion. What they generally fail to understand is that the one world order is the religion. Unified mankind is the god; one\u0026#39;s affirmation of faith in man and his works is the only required creed.\u003Cbr \/\u003EFew proponents of the New World Order are calling for the construction of new theological creeds; they are calling \u0026#39;merely\u0026#39; for the abolition of divisive creeds. They assume that when all divisive theological creeds are abandoned, the true bedrock faith in man will triumph. Creeds are ephemeral, they believe, just as local political jurisdictions are ephemeral. Relegate these local boundaries to historical oblivion, and the New World Order will have its religion: a creedless religion of man. All religions will be welcomed, just so long as they are creedless. Two millennia ago, all local and national gods were welcomed into the Roman pantheon. The goal is the same once again. The issue, then as now, is obedience to the common political order as the highest religious commitment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1929818806286265334\/comments\/default\/5200133136907756550"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1929818806286265334\/comments\/default\/5200133136907756550"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/molyneux-and-objectivist-tradition-4.html?showComment=1606430815582#c5200133136907756550","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/molyneux-and-objectivist-tradition-4.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1929818806286265334","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1929818806286265334","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11\/26\/2020 02:46:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8699024651834252722"},"published":{"$t":"2020-11-26T14:07:40.502-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-11-26T14:07:40.502-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Emile Durkheim: \u0026quot;religion is social phenomeno..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Emile Durkheim: \u0026quot;religion is social phenomenon.’\u0026#39;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReligion acted as a source of solidarity. \u003Cbr \/\u003EReligion provides a meaning for life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlthough faith has a private dimension, human beings experience religion in groups or through forms created by social organizations. Every religion creates and is maintained by institutionalized rituals or concrete organizational forms. Professed beliefs are passed down by religious traditions, and ideally, these beliefs have consequences for one’s social behavior. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll religion is a reply to the question, What is my conception of life? And the religious answer always includes a certain moral demand, which may sometimes follow the explanation of this conception, sometimes precede it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe are living, some have suggested, in the post-Christianera. Our outlook is, in general, man-centered, secularist, and utopian. \u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is materialistic and rationalistic. \u003Cbr \/\u003EIt uses majority decision as its criterion of right. \u003Cbr \/\u003EIt asserts a false individualism as against natural associations such as the family and intimate community groupings, and then it turns to nationalism as the principle of social cohesion."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4790110483003658578\/comments\/default\/8699024651834252722"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4790110483003658578\/comments\/default\/8699024651834252722"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/molyneux-and-objectivist-tradition-2.html?showComment=1606428460502#c8699024651834252722","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/molyneux-and-objectivist-tradition-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4790110483003658578","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4790110483003658578","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11\/26\/2020 02:07:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2266736437878649360"},"published":{"$t":"2020-11-08T03:49:48.285-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-11-08T03:49:48.285-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Actions speak louder than words?\n\nhttps:\/\/uk.reute..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Actions speak louder than words?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/health-coronavirus-ppp-ayn-rand\/in-sign-of-the-times-ayn-rand-institute-approved-for-ppp-loan-idUKL1N2ED2AW\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr are they having their cake and eating it by attacking the government and taking their money!"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6594327929427768220\/comments\/default\/2266736437878649360"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6594327929427768220\/comments\/default\/2266736437878649360"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/the-objectivist-tradition-going-forward.html?showComment=1604836188285#c2266736437878649360","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/the-objectivist-tradition-going-forward.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6594327929427768220","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6594327929427768220","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11\/08\/2020 03:49:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5120157021586398730"},"published":{"$t":"2020-11-04T09:16:31.635-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-11-04T09:16:31.635-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"It seems apparent to me that a lot of this argumen..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"It seems apparent to me that a lot of this argument is going to center around the concept of \u0026quot;universal\u0026quot; and whatever Molyneux insists that is. But to deny \u0026quot;universally\u0026quot; preferable behavior does not deny that preferable behavior doesn\u0026#39;t exist; it\u0026#39;s obvious each individual has behaviors they prefer, and that\u0026#39;s where the objection lies: each individual has their own unique perspective, and so \u0026quot;preferable behavior\u0026quot; varies. I think the practice of female circumcision is horrific, for example, but there\u0026#39;s entire cultures of people who consider it just part of life, or even a benefit to society or god or whatever. I can\u0026#39;t claim my preference to be \u0026quot;universal\u0026quot; by any stretch, no matter how much I might wish it were so. 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AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8809338216671272429"},"published":{"$t":"2020-07-30T12:29:10.406-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-07-30T12:29:10.406-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;the latest dust up in Objectivism is that Le..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;the latest dust up in Objectivism is that Leonard Peikoff gave $250.00 to Trump\u0026#39;s re-election campaign\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELenny is based.*\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey\u0026#39;ll blame it on his girlfriend or his senility or both, though. Watch them bin him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E*I\u0026#39;m joking."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7472506214360918875\/comments\/default\/8809338216671272429"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7472506214360918875\/comments\/default\/8809338216671272429"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/molyneux-and-objectivist-tradition-3.html?showComment=1596137350406#c8809338216671272429","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/molyneux-and-objectivist-tradition-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7472506214360918875","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7472506214360918875","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/30\/2020 12:29:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2456141391066229521"},"published":{"$t":"2020-07-30T12:05:30.796-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-07-30T12:05:30.796-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;[T]here is a leftist strain running through ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;[T]here is a leftist strain running through Objectivism -- a sort of vague radicalism which hopes for a transformed human nature (through \u0026quot;reason\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;ideas,\u0026quot; rather than through social coercion) leading to a transformed society. The real world, meanwhile, does its own thing and cares little for the anathemas of ARI and company.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGreg, I think Albionic American was referring to stuff like this.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttp:\/\/ariwatch.com\/TheAscensionOfJasonHill.htm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhether the real world cares little for the anathemas of ARIans, or ARIans care much about the anathemas of the real world, or both, is probably impossible to parse. It amounts to the same thing."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/2456141391066229521"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/2456141391066229521"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html?showComment=1596135930796#c2456141391066229521","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6544745918134088914","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6544745918134088914","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/30\/2020 12:05:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6056358331548981183"},"published":{"$t":"2020-07-18T07:23:28.501-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-07-18T07:23:28.501-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Apparently the latest dust up in Objectivism is th..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Apparently the latest dust up in Objectivism is that Leonard Peikoff gave $250.00 to Trump\u0026#39;s re-election campaign in March.  Most ARI are pro-Biden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.ariwatch.com\/BidenIsOurOnlyHope.htm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E-NP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7472506214360918875\/comments\/default\/6056358331548981183"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7472506214360918875\/comments\/default\/6056358331548981183"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/molyneux-and-objectivist-tradition-3.html?showComment=1595082208501#c6056358331548981183","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/molyneux-and-objectivist-tradition-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7472506214360918875","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7472506214360918875","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/18\/2020 07:23:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5641955522127298091"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-27T12:33:51.723-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-27T12:33:51.723-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I\u0026#39;d like to know where, exactly, astroturfed O..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":" \u003Ci\u003EI\u0026#39;d like to know where, exactly, astroturfed Objectivism differs from elite leftism these days.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWell, Objectivism is hardly \u0026quot;elite\u0026quot; -- that is to say, no Objectivist has access to elite circles, whether in culture or politics. The would-be sages of Objectivism must content themselves with crying in the wilderness, for there is very little interest for what they have to offer among the denizens of civilized society. But I get the point: there is a leftist strain running through Objectivism -- a sort of vague radicalism which hopes for a transformed human nature (through \u0026quot;reason\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;ideas,\u0026quot; rather than through social coercion) leading to a transformed society. The real world, meanwhile, does its own thing and cares little for the anathemas of ARI and company."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/5641955522127298091"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/5641955522127298091"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html?showComment=1590608031723#c5641955522127298091","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6544745918134088914","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6544745918134088914","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/27\/2020 12:33:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4331119836911502484"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-27T06:39:37.236-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-27T06:39:37.236-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Speaking of human flourishing, what Rand shows abo..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Speaking of human flourishing, what Rand shows about a lot of things in \u003Ci\u003EAtlas Shrugged\u003C\/i\u003E conflicts with what she says, despite her fans\u0026#39; claims about her masterful integration of plot with philosophy. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpecifically, she shows that John Galt and his colleagues go out of their way to demolish America\u0026#39;s economy so that tens of millions of Americans who don\u0026#39;t meet their arbitrary philosophical standard will starve to death and not impede their rebuilding projects. And they don\u0026#39;t just let this collapse happen passively; they actively push for it by destroying industrial capital: Ellis Wyatt sets his own oil field on fire, Ragnar the pirate shells Orren Boyle\u0026#39;s steel mill on the coast of Maine, Francisco sabotages his own mines. If eco-terrorists in the real world went around reversing industrial progress like this, Alex Epstein and other Objectivists would denounce them in no uncertain terms. But because Rand\u0026#39;s heroes destroy industrial production for the \u0026quot;right\u0026quot; philosophical reasons, that makes their actions heroic and even romantic, even though you get the same result either way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYet somehow, according to the Kool-Aid drinkers, this means that \u003Ci\u003EAtlas Shrugged\u003C\/i\u003E shows a philosophy of \u0026quot;human flourishing\u0026quot; at work, even though the characters who win at the end of the novel have no children to inherit what they intend to accomplish. What Rand really shows here conflicts with what she wants to say, at least according to the current Rand hermeneutics, namely, a high time preference nihilism, not \u0026quot;human flourishing.\u0026quot; "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/4331119836911502484"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/4331119836911502484"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html?showComment=1590586777236#c4331119836911502484","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Albionic American"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6544745918134088914","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6544745918134088914","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/27\/2020 06:39:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8067136670883392253"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-27T06:15:53.237-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-27T06:15:53.237-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Billionaires run both political parties in the Uni..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Billionaires run both political parties in the United States; they just operate in different sectors of the economy. The Republicans\u0026#39; billionaires base their wealth on material production like fossil fuels, agribusiness and military hardware, and they depend on the Pentagon as their ally in the government. The Democrats\u0026#39; billionaires made their fortunes in the immaterial economy of Wall Street, Hollywood, the media and Silicon Valley, and they depend on the intelligence agencies and the Justice Department in the government to do their bidding. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats\u0026#39; billionaires clearly control their party from the fact that they shut down Bernie Sanders\u0026#39;s campaigns twice in a row, despite the fact that Sanders tapped into popular misgivings about how the super-rich have misruled the country. They have apparently astroturfed \u0026quot;leftism\u0026quot; into a form which doesn\u0026#39;t threaten their power. Objectivists who haven\u0026#39;t kept up with events sound increasingly disconnected from reality when they go around claiming that some mysterious ethics of \u0026quot;altruism\u0026quot; has run rampant in the country, and that it threatens to cause people to rise up, rob and murder the country\u0026#39;s billionaires. "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/8067136670883392253"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/8067136670883392253"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html?showComment=1590585353237#c8067136670883392253","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Albionic American"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6544745918134088914","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6544745918134088914","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/27\/2020 06:15:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2414235652723788573"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-27T02:34:21.672-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-27T02:34:21.672-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I think it\u0026#39;s worth mentioning that at least a ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I think it\u0026#39;s worth mentioning that at least a few of the things you list aren\u0026#39;t exactly singularly leftist traits. \u0026quot;Self esteem\u0026quot; is quite common on the right as well, just WHICH people deserve it and are given a pass to use it may differ. Plus the right isn\u0026#39;t exactly known for placing a lot of onerous shackles on those poor, oppressed billionaires.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(Some wag could also point out that much of conservative Christianity itself is markedly hostile towards the actual traditional values espoused by Jesus the supposed Christ in the Bible itself, as opposed to the values supposedly favored by some idealized 1950s-era view of church and country.)"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/2414235652723788573"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/2414235652723788573"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html?showComment=1590572061672#c2414235652723788573","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6544745918134088914","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6544745918134088914","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/27\/2020 02:34:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5389452522699036765"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-26T06:22:34.087-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-26T06:22:34.087-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I\u0026#39;d like to know where, exactly, astroturfed O..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I\u0026#39;d like to know where, exactly, astroturfed Objectivism differs from elite leftism these days. Objectivists promote open borders, indiscriminate immigration, sexual freedom (Biddle has published at least one article in his magazine about the wonders of male homosexuality), pushing girls to compete with boys in areas where girls generally show less competency, pseudoscience about the importance of self-esteem, hostility towards traditional Christian belief and letting billionaires do pretty much whatever they want.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy contrast, I doubt that any leftist has lost sleep over Rand\u0026#39;s theory of concepts or her badly thought out speculations about art and literature. If anything, many of the early communists, starting with the well-read Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, could have said more interesting things about literature off the tops of their heads than what Rand had to offer. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELeftist elites certainly don\u0026#39;t feel threatened by the Objectivists\u0026#39; advocacy of Austrian economics. You can criticize fiat money, central banking and modern monetary theory from an Austrian perspective all you want, and no one in power will try to retaliate against you to make you shut up."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/5389452522699036765"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/5389452522699036765"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html?showComment=1590499354087#c5389452522699036765","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Albionic American"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6544745918134088914","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6544745918134088914","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/26\/2020 06:22:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4790778175724874496"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-25T05:41:29.821-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-25T05:41:29.821-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I haven\u0026#39;t heard of any of the people associate..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I haven\u0026#39;t heard of any of the people associated with the new venture (outside of Biddle).  I think they will need to get a philosopher of some importance to be credible as an ARI-alternative.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHaving the rights to use Rand\u0026#39;s name and Leonard\u0026#39;s 30 year old philosophy courses is helpful but I don\u0026#39;t think it\u0026#39;s exciting."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/4790778175724874496"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/4790778175724874496"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html?showComment=1590410489821#c4790778175724874496","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6544745918134088914","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6544745918134088914","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/25\/2020 05:41:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-9163154945750852600"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-24T18:40:04.337-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-24T18:40:04.337-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Dr. Salmieri and his family will be moving to Aust..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EDr. Salmieri and his family will be moving to Austin, and he expects to be teaching courses in the (highly regarded) philosophy department at U. of T.—where Tara Smith is a tenured professor.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESalmieri and Smith, as far as I can see, are intellectually the best figures in the orthodox Objectivist movement, at least in terms of core philosophy (rather than commentary on current events). They both are now receiving the bulk of their income from a non-ARI source, which makes them somewhat independent. If in the future it\u0026#39;s primarily money that\u0026#39;s going to keep leading Objectivist intellectuals in line, that won\u0026#39;t necessarily work with Smith and Salmieri (although Salmieiri may be beholden to this Bud Bringham, who\u0026#39;s supporting the venture)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThere is some effort to rebrand Objectivism as a philosophy of \u0026quot;human flourishing,\u0026quot; coming from Craig Biddle and Alex Epstein. Perhaps they are doing this in response to Steven Pinker\u0026#39;s strategy for defending the Enlightenment in a modern context, despite Pinker\u0026#39;s dismissive comments about Rand in his book Enlightenment Now.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis seems a bit of a nod to David Kelley who, although he didn\u0026#39;t exactly rebrand Objectivism as a philosophy of flourishing, tended to emphasize as a part of the ethics (along with \u0026quot;survival\u0026quot;).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EIt looks like Craig Biddle is creating a rival organization to the ARI.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWell, at least the groundwork is being laid. Even if Biddle is not thinking of striking out on his own, the fact that he is not setting up his organization under the ARI umbrella suggest to me he really doesn\u0026#39;t want to be accountable to any of the power-brokers over at ARI — which already suggest some level of friction\/disagreement. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI wouldn\u0026#39;t be shocked if we see more of this kind of decentralization. Perhaps all the craziness about the Brandens, which dominated ARI in its early years, was a good thing for orthodox Objectivism. It gave the faithful a common enemy — something to rally around and weed out dissenters. Where\u0026#39;s Objectivism\u0026#39;s common enemy now? Are they going to continue demonizing libertarians and conservatives? How has that worked out for them? Are they going to make the radical left the enemy? Well then get in line. But that\u0026#39;s becoming a rather long line and Objectivists will have to content themselves with being at the very back of it."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/9163154945750852600"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/9163154945750852600"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html?showComment=1590370804337#c9163154945750852600","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6544745918134088914","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6544745918134088914","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/24\/2020 06:40:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7988175627751045974"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-24T12:56:22.127-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-24T12:56:22.127-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"It looks like Craig Biddle is creating a rival org..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"It looks like Craig Biddle is creating a rival organization to the ARI:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/objectivestandard.org\/blog\/why-we-created-osi?fbclid=IwAR3rTPfoUVRYw44qAwUxnwCgJ-bJrGN9Kqj1ofhOrF2lqnmzNIgy7nSZK4Y\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/7988175627751045974"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/7988175627751045974"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html?showComment=1590350182127#c7988175627751045974","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6544745918134088914","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6544745918134088914","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/24\/2020 12:56:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5171145461121419108"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-23T06:54:16.195-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-23T06:54:16.195-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Salmieri is married to a fairly attractive woman. ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Salmieri is married to a fairly attractive woman.  He posted a while ago that she was pregnant.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHuggy Bear"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/5171145461121419108"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/5171145461121419108"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html?showComment=1590242056195#c5171145461121419108","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6544745918134088914","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6544745918134088914","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/23\/2020 06:54:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2879842464878819083"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-23T05:27:23.460-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-23T05:27:23.460-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Also it\u0026#39;s hard to visualize what a functional ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Also it\u0026#39;s hard to visualize what a functional Objectivist family would look like, given the way Rand portrays family relationships in her novels. Human flourishing in the most literal sense is a wholesome family life oriented around bringing up future generations, but you simply can\u0026#39;t find where Rand has anything good to say about that in her writings. 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He speaks with a lisp and projects effeminate mannerisms."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/383555340123256601"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/383555340123256601"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html?showComment=1590236190659#c383555340123256601","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Albionic American"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6544745918134088914","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6544745918134088914","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/23\/2020 05:16:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4509740586800623487"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-22T19:21:10.871-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-22T19:21:10.871-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;I suppose it\u0026#39;s possible that some of the..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;I suppose it\u0026#39;s possible that some of them could set up trusts to park some of their estate assets and pay these organizations incomes from invested wealth.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the late 1990s, the ARI was hitting up donors to leave bequests in their wills."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/4509740586800623487"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/4509740586800623487"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html?showComment=1590200470871#c4509740586800623487","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6544745918134088914","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6544745918134088914","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/22\/2020 07:21:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1544926424161456756"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-17T07:36:37.733-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-17T07:36:37.733-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Yaron Brook and Tal Tsfany announced the establish..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Yaron Brook and Tal Tsfany announced the establishment of a new program and a new subcenter at the McCombs Business School of the University of Texas, Austin.  The Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship is partnering with The Center for Enterprise and Policy Analytics (CEPA) to launch: The Program for Objectivity in Knowledge, Action, and Enterprise. The CEPA Center is headed by professor of statistics, Carlos Carvalho. The Objectivity Program will include a Center for Objectivists Studies to be headed by philosopher Gregory Salmieri.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDr. Salmieri and his family will be moving to Austin, and he expects to be teaching courses in the (highly regarded) philosophy department at U. of T.—where Tara Smith is a tenured professor.  Dr. Salmieri\u0026#39;s appointment begins June 1st.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe main financial supporter of the new Program and Center is Bud Brigham, a longtime Objectivist and successful businessman, who is both a resident of Austin and an alumnus of U. of T. (Yaron Brook is also an alumnus).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHuggy Bear"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/1544926424161456756"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/1544926424161456756"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html?showComment=1589726197733#c1544926424161456756","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6544745918134088914","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6544745918134088914","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/17\/2020 07:36:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1955147550461052008"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-12T19:02:02.994-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-12T19:02:02.994-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;most people don\u0026#39;t want to live in an Obj..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;most people don\u0026#39;t want to live in an Objectivist world and that\u0026#39;s just the way things are.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is some effort to rebrand Objectivism as a philosophy of \u0026quot;human flourishing,\u0026quot; coming from Craig Biddle and Alex Epstein. Perhaps they are doing this in response to Steven Pinker\u0026#39;s strategy for defending the Enlightenment in a modern context, despite Pinker\u0026#39;s dismissive comments about Rand in his book \u003Ci\u003EEnlightenment Now\u003C\/i\u003E. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut that\u0026#39;s not going to work, again given the weakness of Rand\u0026#39;s source material. Human flourishing in the most literal sense means procreating and rearing healthy children in families, but you simply can\u0026#39;t derive that interpretation from Rand\u0026#39;s novels, given their  hostile portrayal of motherhood and family life, contrasted with Rand\u0026#39;s feminine ideal of the sterile, sexually liberated single career woman, Dagny Taggart. If Rand were really serious and thoughtful about winning what she saw as a culture war, she should have considered the low time preference strategy of fighting the war of the cradle as a key component of that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead Rand left us with a kind of high time preference nihilism which leaves its adherents with nothing to show for their lives as the generations turn over. When the partisans of human flourishing try to recruit Rand for their side, they don\u0026#39;t need enemies. 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In the future we could see a time when just about any eccentric multi-millionaire\/billionaire who\u0026#39;s taken a fancy of Ayn Rand (via her novels) could come forward and essentially make ARI his private preserve. He could start out with promises of orthodoxy, but his eccentricity will lead him to change to suit whatever passions may be sweeping through his soul. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI\u0026#39;m skeptical that long-term the dwindling faction of Objectivist purists can keep the Randian flame pure. The philosophy just doesn\u0026#39;t work — it doesn\u0026#39;t deliver on its promises to create a society based on Objectivist premises. As a matter of fact, the course of social change is not determined by a philosophical duel between Plato and Kant on one side and Aristotle and Rand on the other. That\u0026#39;s just wishful thinking and fatuous nonsense. At some point the inability to exercise any appreciable influence whatsoever on the political and economic world will fatigue ARI\u0026#39;s followers and raise questions as to whether Rand was right about the philosophy of history contentions. When this happens, there may be desperate attempts to come up with alternate strategies — all to no good purpose because most people don\u0026#39;t want to live in an Objectivist world and that\u0026#39;s just the way things are."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/9213995411324390003"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/9213995411324390003"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html?showComment=1589315983271#c9213995411324390003","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6544745918134088914","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6544745918134088914","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/12\/2020 01:39:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5255588233525245676"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-12T13:26:30.995-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-12T13:26:30.995-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"What has all the Brook you tube videos, paying Jor..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EWhat has all the Brook you tube videos, paying Jordan Peterson, paying David Pakman, etc. done for Objectivism as a philosophical movement?\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile I wouldn\u0026#39;t be surprised if Jordan Peterson received a speaker\u0026#39;s fee for his OCON appearance, I am surprised that Brook would pay Pakman. Didn\u0026#39;t Brook merely debate Pakman? Was the payment was for?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt\u0026#39;s hard to believe that such a payments would have been tolerated when Rand was alive or even in the early years of ARI when Peikoff et al were freaked out about the Branden\u0026#39;s books on Rand. But are there still Objectivists who are uptight about this kind of stuff. Is there really buyers remorse about Brook? What would they prefer him to do? He\u0026#39;s kind of between a rock and a hard place. If he\u0026#39;s paying Peterson and Pakman to talk them, that\u0026#39;s only because he\u0026#39;s trying to reach a wider audience. Brook\u0026#39;s own YouTube videos rarely are seen by more than 10,000 people, but if he\u0026#39;s talking to Peterson, that video will be seen and heard by potentially millions of people. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPart of the problem is that Rand\u0026#39;s philosophy is becoming increasingly dated and it just doesn\u0026#39;t, nor will it ever, appeal to a wide audience. She believes in things (e.g., blank slate, history is determined by philosophy) that simply aren\u0026#39;t scientifically or rationally credible. 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If not, these organizations are just going to collapse once the money dries up when the older financiers like Carl Barney die, retire or just change their priorities, though I suppose it\u0026#39;s possible that some of them could set up trusts to park some of their estate assets and pay these organizations incomes from invested wealth. Not that these financial arrangement would make much difference, given the weakness of the source material Rand left us. From hindsight people will wonder what all that astroturfing to try to keep Rand relevant really accomplished in the long run. 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But in the last 30 or so years, the Ayn Rand Institute has astroturfed Rand\u0026#39;s influence through central planning by buying and then giving away over 4 million copies of Rand\u0026#39;s novels to high school and college students, whether these youngsters wanted to read them or not. Carl Barney is just moving the astroturfing of Rand\u0026#39;s philosophy over to his own organization because he has the financial wherewithal to do so. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot only does the practice of buy mass quantities of Rand\u0026#39;s novels send bad price signals through the market about the value of her work; but it also misallocates scarce resources and contributes to economic chaos. It\u0026#39;s like Directive 10-289 in \u003Ci\u003EAtlas Shrugged\u003C\/i\u003E created a \u0026quot;Balph Eubank Institute\u0026quot; to keep the incompetent novelist Eubank\u0026#39;s novels in print and force people to read them. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy contrast, notice that the renewed popularity of Stoicism, a time-tested philosophy for adults, is happening in Hayekian fashion, namely, spontaneously, organically, across the society and without central planning to make it happen. To the best of my knowledge, there is nothing like a \u0026quot;Marcus Aurelius Institute\u0026quot; which interferes into the market for books by printing and giving away mass quantities of Stoic literature. 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When Rand..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"This seems like the biggest schism yet.  When Rand booted out the Brandens in \u0026#39;68 no one doubted that Objectivism=Ayn Rand.  After Rand died there were schisms, but no one doubt ARI=Rand=Peikoff.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut with trademarks, Rand\u0026#39;s papers, archives, etc. I wonder what to make of all this.  My guess is that there is buyer\u0026#39;s remorse with Brook.  Sure, he raised a lot of money, but is the influence of the ARI what you\u0026#39;d expect it to be with its funding?  What has all the Brook you tube videos, paying Jordan Peterson, paying David Pakman, etc. done for Objectivism as a philosophical movement?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E-Neil P"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/6328166926757895307"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6544745918134088914\/comments\/default\/6328166926757895307"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html?showComment=1589142976660#c6328166926757895307","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/slouching-toward-next-schism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6544745918134088914","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6544745918134088914","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/10\/2020 01:36:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3578289760315068666"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-09T15:35:14.162-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-09T15:35:14.162-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Richard Salsman. I remember him from the 1980s whe..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Richard Salsman. I remember him from the 1980s when he was defending insider trading. In fact, that was his claim to ARI fame: he started as the ARI\u0026#39;s point man on insider trading and on the high moral character of convicted felon Michael Milken.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENone of these people are good. When RS criticizes OG, it\u0026#39;s no more than the pot calling the kettle black."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4330434771275630438\/comments\/default\/3578289760315068666"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4330434771275630438\/comments\/default\/3578289760315068666"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/upb-intro.html?showComment=1589063714162#c3578289760315068666","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Titus"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/upb-intro.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4330434771275630438","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4330434771275630438","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/09\/2020 03:35:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7496195540525496632"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-09T15:28:18.310-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-09T15:28:18.310-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"ariwatch.com is an indispensable resource for trac..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"ariwatch.com is an indispensable resource for trackers of ARI\u0026#39;s corruption and immorality."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4330434771275630438\/comments\/default\/7496195540525496632"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4330434771275630438\/comments\/default\/7496195540525496632"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/upb-intro.html?showComment=1589063298310#c7496195540525496632","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Titus"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/upb-intro.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4330434771275630438","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4330434771275630438","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/09\/2020 03:28:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7061248787207930868"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-09T06:03:31.115-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-09T06:03:31.115-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"http:\/\/ariwatch.com\/TheCenterOfMassShiftsFurther.h..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"http:\/\/ariwatch.com\/TheCenterOfMassShiftsFurther.htm\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4330434771275630438\/comments\/default\/7061248787207930868"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4330434771275630438\/comments\/default\/7061248787207930868"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/upb-intro.html?showComment=1589029411115#c7061248787207930868","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/upb-intro.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4330434771275630438","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4330434771275630438","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/09\/2020 06:03:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6380496108079443165"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-08T07:48:24.574-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-08T07:48:24.574-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;Capitalism follows Smith\u0026#39;s lead: to be s..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;Capitalism follows Smith\u0026#39;s lead: to be successful, a producer must serve the customer. You must appeal to his self-interest. This is surely moral.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHa ha, if only."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4330434771275630438\/comments\/default\/6380496108079443165"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4330434771275630438\/comments\/default\/6380496108079443165"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/upb-intro.html?showComment=1588949304574#c6380496108079443165","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/upb-intro.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4330434771275630438","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4330434771275630438","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/08\/2020 07:48:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-546675801139916149"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-05T21:38:45.145-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-05T21:38:45.145-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;The idea of a universal natural law-order th..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;The idea of a universal natural law-order that supposedly can be discovered by all rational minds was an invention of Roman Stoic philosophers over a century after Rome defeated the remnants of Alexander’s empire.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor (Leviticus 19:15).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you” (Exodus 12:49). \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese two verses are the biblical foundation of the principle of the rule of law. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHebrew or gentile, rich or poor, there was to be one civil law-order. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis was crucial in the Mosaic law’s concept of justice. No one was exempt from the rule of law.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis legal underpinning of liberty rests on a principle of morality. That principle is this one: the defense of private property. The Bible is clear about this: \u0026quot;Thou shalt not steal (Exodus 20:15). 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One might think, therefore, that an institute many decades old with her name on the door would help the wider world know that crucial fact. Alas, tragically, it is no longer so, indeed hasn’t been so for many years, but especially in the years that one OG has been granted the title Chief Content Officer (CCO), or, more accurately, Chief Censor. A wholly unqualified charlatan who couldn’t get a job in academia, nonetheless he is venerated by the likes of YB, TS, HB and a host of other sycophants, who attempt to elevate themselves by trying to dissipate the great legacy of Ayn Rand and Leonard Peikoff. That’s impossible, of course, but they do still try. Now watch, if you can stomach it, this dishonest and pathetic performance by OG, the CCO at ARI whose simple task is to explain why AR’s philosophy is DISTINCTIVE. He cannot do it; his ramblings are vague, dilatory, subjective and wholly lacking in rational content. By the way, this is NOT a spontaneous, extemporaneous Q\u0026amp;A but a preplanned, “thought-out” opening statement devoid of any coherent argument. Her philosophy, he intones, is “new!” — “different!” — “pathbreaking! — “unconventional!” Different, how? No answer. True, in what way? Blank out. Why should I care? Because I’m OG, and here’s how it hit me, subjectively, in Calgary, many years ago. \u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is waste; this is ridiculous; this is corruption. Why would anyone fund such tripe, who possessed even a scintilla of conscientiousness, or pride? It is using Ayn Rand’s illustrious name as a shield for incompetence. Don’t fall for it, Objectivist sheeple. It is the now the oak tree in Atlas Shrugged, if you know what I mean. I yearn nostalgically for the 15 years when the great Mike Berliner built that place, grew it, made it real, professional, viable, COLLEGIAL. All that’s mostly gone now, due not to MB of course, but to all those inferior successors who squandered his achievements and preferred to carve out personal sinecures. In the process they trashed and ostracized more than a few wealthy businessmen, who eventually left - shrugged - out of pride. Yet it still stands, like that oak tree, sentry at its side, the “Chief Content Officer,” ensuring unending content-less-ness. ARI supported the bailouts of 2008-09, then the Lockdown of 2020. There’s “content” for you - no different than what you’d find at Heritage or Brookings. The CCO remains, ever as smug, ever pretending to promote Rand’s views, hoping contributors won’t notice and won’t stop funding the fraud. But the CCO, thougn funded, is irrelevant; the truth will out, eventually; reality is the best avenger of all. 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Why don\u0026#39;t you take a ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EMolyneux is a straw man. Why don\u0026#39;t you take a crack at Tara Smith?\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMolyneux has a much larger audience than Tara Smith. Tara Smith may be intellectually more respectable than Molyneux. But how many people actually bother with Smith? What has she accomplished beyond putting an academic gloss over what is at bottom just repackaged orthodox Objectivism? And I\u0026#39;ve already gone over that. Somebody needs to articulate what is wrong with Molyneux\u0026#39;s UPB and put that theory to be once and for all."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4330434771275630438\/comments\/default\/1001035313432060686"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4330434771275630438\/comments\/default\/1001035313432060686"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/upb-intro.html?showComment=1587585401933#c1001035313432060686","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/upb-intro.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4330434771275630438","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4330434771275630438","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/22\/2020 12:56:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1834761291094907048"},"published":{"$t":"2020-04-22T12:44:24.209-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-04-22T12:44:24.209-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Molyneux is a straw man. Why don\u0026#39;t you take a ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Molyneux is a straw man. Why don\u0026#39;t you take a crack at Tara Smith?"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4330434771275630438\/comments\/default\/1834761291094907048"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4330434771275630438\/comments\/default\/1834761291094907048"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/upb-intro.html?showComment=1587584664209#c1834761291094907048","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/upb-intro.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4330434771275630438","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4330434771275630438","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/22\/2020 12:44:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5972795316457257902"},"published":{"$t":"2020-04-06T05:23:56.525-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-04-06T05:23:56.525-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;Orthodox Objectivism has remained steadfastl..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;Orthodox Objectivism has remained steadfastly true to its author\u0026#39;s original vision . . . The denizens of ARI still hold fast to a hawkish foreign policy in the Middle East, even when most Americans have tired of the endless wars; they still believe in “open borders,\u0026quot; even when most people toward the right side of the political spectrum (outside of a few elites) are against them . . .\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt\u0026#39;s not clear to me that Rand would have supported \u0026quot;open borders\u0026quot; (the preferred O\u0026#39;ist term is \u0026quot;open immigration\u0026quot;).  She did say in a Q\u0026amp;A that she supported \u0026quot;open immigration\u0026quot; but who knows if she meany by it what O\u0026#39;ists mean by it today.  She never wrote about immigration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6594327929427768220\/comments\/default\/5972795316457257902"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6594327929427768220\/comments\/default\/5972795316457257902"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/the-objectivist-tradition-going-forward.html?showComment=1586175836525#c5972795316457257902","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/the-objectivist-tradition-going-forward.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6594327929427768220","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6594327929427768220","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/06\/2020 05:23:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-213256176494468083"},"published":{"$t":"2020-04-05T19:43:07.053-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-04-05T19:43:07.053-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Hamilton and Clay were supporters of privately own..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Hamilton and Clay were supporters of privately owned central banking.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGovernment and business should be \u0026quot;one big happy family.\u0026quot; This was Clay\u0026#39;s American System.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethe basis of what is called the government-business alliance. In early modern European history, this was called mercantilism. In 19th-cenrtury America before 1865, this was called the American System. In the mid-1930s, it was called the New Deal. It was called fascism in Italy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.garynorth.com\/public\/6888.cfm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn October, 1957, Ayn Rand\u0026#39;s novel Atlas Shrugged first appeared. It was greeted by one reviewer with what I regard as the supreme put-down in the history of literary criticism: \u0026quot;This is the worst American novel since The Fountainhead.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is a conceptually confused novel. It was offered in the name of individual liberty, yet its description of how capitalism works is so wrongheaded that it undermines what Rand regarded as a call to economic liberty. I can think of few books that have more completely misunderstood how capitalism works. It has always baffled me that anyone who understands the nature of the capitalist system would find much in this book to praise.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.garynorth.com\/public\/2588.cfm"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6594327929427768220\/comments\/default\/213256176494468083"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6594327929427768220\/comments\/default\/213256176494468083"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/the-objectivist-tradition-going-forward.html?showComment=1586140987053#c213256176494468083","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/the-objectivist-tradition-going-forward.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6594327929427768220","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6594327929427768220","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/05\/2020 07:43:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5994527105745958580"},"published":{"$t":"2020-04-05T19:42:47.700-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-04-05T19:42:47.700-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Close Our Borders!\nGary North - May 06, 2019\n\n“Who..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Close Our Borders!\u003Cbr \/\u003EGary North - May 06, 2019\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Who? Whom?”\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat does “who” mean? What does “whom” mean? In a nation like the United States, in which the politics of plunder has become a way of life, it is exceedingly important to defend one’s wallet from gun-toting agents of voters with thinner wallets. Politics is mostly about getting into the other guy’s wallet more effectively than he gets into yours.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo, when someone speaks of “our” borders, he has in mind legal access to the political process by which voters decide who will hold the credit cards. He wants his kind of voters in those voting booths, not someone else’s kind of voters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.garynorth.com\/public\/19459.cfm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Free Trade Destroys Jobs.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003EGary North - December 13, 2014\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe case for voluntary exchange has nothing to do with the question of the number of jobs that voluntary trade is supposed to create, or not create, or even destroy. The case for voluntary exchange is based on the case for economic liberty. It is based on the idea that two individuals who want to better their condition have a legal right to make an exchange that each of them believes will improve his situation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.garynorth.com\/public\/13216.cfm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESTATE WORSHIP\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe defenders of mercantilism have a religion: the religion of state worship. They do not believe that individuals acting in their own self-interest by trading with each other in order to benefit themselves are reliable sources of innovation, exploration, and creativity. They believe that the free market is an incomplete organization. They believe that there must be a sovereign judicial entity which provides guidance, by which they really mean coercion, in directing the flow of scarce economic resources. They believe that bureaucrats are trustworthy, that politicians act in the interest of the people. They believe that the state is a reliable source of economic wisdom, correct understanding of the future, correct understanding of the present, and is therefore the proper agency to equate supply with demand.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.garynorth.com\/public\/9621.cfm\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6594327929427768220\/comments\/default\/5994527105745958580"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6594327929427768220\/comments\/default\/5994527105745958580"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/the-objectivist-tradition-going-forward.html?showComment=1586140967700#c5994527105745958580","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/the-objectivist-tradition-going-forward.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6594327929427768220","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6594327929427768220","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/05\/2020 07:42:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-848053951575153097"},"published":{"$t":"2020-04-04T13:56:51.656-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-04-04T13:56:51.656-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"on Carl Bergstrom, then: perhaps his dudgeon was a..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"on Carl Bergstrom, then: perhaps his dudgeon was aroused by Ginn\u0026#39;s presumption because he has cultivated a reputation as an aficionado of BS detection?\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/ischool.uw.edu\/calling-bs\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026amp; as to motivation, well, there\u0026#39;s the prospect of book sales...\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Calling-Bullshit-Skepticism-Data-Driven-World\/dp\/0525509186\/"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1398798356088243550\/comments\/default\/848053951575153097"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1398798356088243550\/comments\/default\/848053951575153097"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/objectivism-and-covid-19.html?showComment=1586033811656#c848053951575153097","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/objectivism-and-covid-19.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1398798356088243550","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1398798356088243550","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/04\/2020 01:56:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7740844947934776306"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-28T08:40:24.443-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-28T08:40:24.443-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"If you go to the zerohedge link give above (https:..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"If you go to the zerohedge link give above (https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/health\/covid-19-evidence-over-hysteria) Carl T. Bergstrom, through a series of tweets, has provided a rather cursory refutation of Aaron Ginn\u0026#39;s now removed medium.com essay. With Bergstrom we\u0026#39;re confronted with dilemma of expertise. On the one hand, Ginn is not an expert and his rather breezy way of discussing issues may be as atrocious as Bergstrom insists. But on the other, Bergstrom is hardly a model of humility; he seems angry that anyone should dare question the authority of \u0026quot;science\u0026quot; and the self-appointed experts of \u0026quot;science\u0026quot;; he opts to go after the weakest points, rather than potential stronger points, of Ginn\u0026#39;s article (which hardly serves to inspire confidence); and he sedulously ignores any of the data or sources Ginn refers to which, at least potentially, may come from other experts who may not entirely agree with Bergstrom. Now I realize it\u0026#39;s hazardous business when non-experts quote experts against other experts. But if this is done misleadingly, I would still like a coherent explanation of what is wrong with it. For example, Bergstrom contemptuously dismisses Ginn\u0026#39;s claims about the COVID-19 burning off in the summer, citing his own experts, but Ginn has cited experts of his own, and provided a fairly convinced statistical graph. So whose experts are \u0026quot;right,\u0026quot; and why is Ginn\u0026#39;s graph misleading? I\u0026#39;d like an explanation of this, and am rather disappointed with Bergstrom for not providing one, but instead retreating into the unstated (but implied) injunction: \u0026quot;I\u0026#39;m an authority—all you non-experts need to believe me.\u0026quot; Anyone who\u0026#39;s been misdiagnosed by a doctor or ripped off by an auto mechanic knows that doesn\u0026#39;t always work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1398798356088243550\/comments\/default\/7740844947934776306"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1398798356088243550\/comments\/default\/7740844947934776306"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/objectivism-and-covid-19.html?showComment=1585410024443#c7740844947934776306","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/objectivism-and-covid-19.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1398798356088243550","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1398798356088243550","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/28\/2020 08:40:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-117911460327114133"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-25T01:54:23.550-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-25T01:54:23.550-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Clearly projection,as you admit yourself\nRevenge i..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Clearly projection,as you admit yourself\u003Cbr \/\u003ERevenge is emotional action but what is presented is a logical sequence of events. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe profiled characters were responsible for their own demise as explained in the first paragraph:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;As the tunnel came closer, they saw, at the edge of the sky far to the south, in a void of space and rock, a spot of living fire twisting in the wind. They did not know what it was and did not care to learn.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey all saw a hazard but didn\u0026#39;t care enough to question or express alarm at a distant hazard.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETheir ideas are presented as background to explain why individual action \u0026amp; personal responsibility didn\u0026#39;t occur to them, but lemmings run off of cliffs for the same reasons."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/142421212581846331\/comments\/default\/117911460327114133"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/142421212581846331\/comments\/default\/117911460327114133"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/that-winston-tunnel-scene-in-full.html?showComment=1585126463550#c117911460327114133","title":""},{"rel":"related","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/142421212581846331\/comments\/default\/5706344609227069936"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"SpringAyn"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01210577104920837771"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/that-winston-tunnel-scene-in-full.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-142421212581846331","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/142421212581846331","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1757127806"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/25\/2020 01:54:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4690379191744675192"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-24T14:31:15.194-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-24T14:31:15.194-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"now isn\u0026#39;t that interesting about that.\n\nhttps:..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"now isn\u0026#39;t that interesting about that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/medium.com\/six-four-six-nine\/evidence-over-hysteria-covid-19-1b767def5894\u003Cbr \/\u003E404 I know: 410 is a shotgun shell.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ekindness of (motivated) strangers:\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/health\/covid-19-evidence-over-hysteria"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1398798356088243550\/comments\/default\/4690379191744675192"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1398798356088243550\/comments\/default\/4690379191744675192"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/objectivism-and-covid-19.html?showComment=1585085475194#c4690379191744675192","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/objectivism-and-covid-19.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1398798356088243550","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1398798356088243550","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/24\/2020 02:31:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6872385081205832378"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-22T10:32:59.843-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-22T10:32:59.843-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Gordon,\n\nThere\u0026#39;s an essay I want to send you. ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Gordon,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere\u0026#39;s an essay I want to send you.  I\u0026#39;ve switched computers since we last corresponded.  Could you send me an email at neil dot Parille theatthing outlook.com"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1398798356088243550\/comments\/default\/6872385081205832378"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1398798356088243550\/comments\/default\/6872385081205832378"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/objectivism-and-covid-19.html?showComment=1584898379843#c6872385081205832378","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/objectivism-and-covid-19.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1398798356088243550","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1398798356088243550","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/22\/2020 10:32:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5404712742016614436"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-22T03:59:57.173-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-22T03:59:57.173-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I really dont see anything in Objectivism that cou..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I really dont see anything in Objectivism that could right this disease. If anything, their slavish devotion to open trade\/travel would just make the pandemic worse."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1398798356088243550\/comments\/default\/5404712742016614436"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1398798356088243550\/comments\/default\/5404712742016614436"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/objectivism-and-covid-19.html?showComment=1584874797173#c5404712742016614436","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Eric"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07366389218759511353"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/objectivism-and-covid-19.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1398798356088243550","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1398798356088243550","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1529032317"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/22\/2020 03:59:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5826216137188549270"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-21T18:18:00.621-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-21T18:18:00.621-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"To get some sense of the short-comings, despite al..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"To get some sense of the short-comings, despite all the aura of reasonableness, of the Ghate\/Salmieri podcast, examine the following article, which argues from a position not so very different (i.e., we are over-reacting to pandemic and not fighting the virus rationally and in the process we are giving up freedom to state power). Note that it is very data driven article, rather than focused on largely on making vague philosophical points and rather amorphous assertions:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/medium.com\/six-four-six-nine\/evidence-over-hysteria-covid-19-1b767def5894"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1398798356088243550\/comments\/default\/5826216137188549270"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1398798356088243550\/comments\/default\/5826216137188549270"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/objectivism-and-covid-19.html?showComment=1584839880621#c5826216137188549270","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/objectivism-and-covid-19.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1398798356088243550","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1398798356088243550","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/21\/2020 06:18:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8079086918022304778"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-21T13:26:59.073-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-21T13:26:59.073-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Woo-hooh, Ayn Rand Contra isn\u0026#39;t dead.\n\nHere is..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Woo-hooh, Ayn Rand Contra isn\u0026#39;t dead.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHere is the latest\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rQBWSwBnLAQ\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow that ARCHN is back, I\u0026#39;ll listen to the videos and comments.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E-Neil"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1398798356088243550\/comments\/default\/8079086918022304778"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1398798356088243550\/comments\/default\/8079086918022304778"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/objectivism-and-covid-19.html?showComment=1584822419073#c8079086918022304778","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/objectivism-and-covid-19.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1398798356088243550","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1398798356088243550","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/21\/2020 01:26:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3311494659770377165"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-20T20:23:46.277-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-20T20:23:46.277-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Re:  https:\/\/newideal.aynrand.org\/thinking-philoso..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Re:  https:\/\/newideal.aynrand.org\/thinking-philosophically-about-the-pandemic\/ \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI listened to this discussion – all 90 minutes of it.   Ghate and Salmieri.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe good news, I suppose, is that there were no wild-eyed conspiracy theories being floated; and the description of the problem everyone is facing was actually reasonably accurate.  “Thinking philosophically” turned out to mean:  listen to experts; compare opinions; don’t be swayed by hysteria.  All unexceptionable but hardly surprising.  They sort of got behind self-isolation in some cases – and as a voluntary choice.  And Ghate was very much aware that the medical system might face collapse if there’s a catastrophic spike in the number of cases.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll quite reasonable – mainly because they steered away from questions that are tough or ought to be tough for an advocate of laissez-faire.  They didn’t say how a purely capitalist society would handle a crisis like this – on the grounds that we have to deal with the situation we have and not with the purely capitalist society where everything would work out so much better.  All very eschatological.  They oddly resemble someone saying:  “This won’t happen after Jesus comes.  But he ain’t here yet.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat are those tough questions? I would suggest two (neither of them even slightly touched on in a 90 minute discussion):\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E1.  The O’ists do accept that one can use force  (“self-defense”) to guard against an infectious person. But what does one do if thousands are infectious?    And what if you don’t know who they are?  By the time you find out, you’re in North Italy.  Hundreds of American lawmakers have to make these decisions right now.  I doubt that “thinking philosophically” is helping them much.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReaders might want to go to minute 78, where Salmieri points out that even two million deaths would only double the number of people who die in the United States every year.  In other words:  if we do nothing, it still wouldn’t be all that bad.  Read a history of the Irish potato famine if you want to know what that kind of approach would mean in practice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E2.   And how about the collapse of the stock market?  Any government action in a laissez-faire society is of course completely out.  The standard O’ist answer is that wild stock market fluctuations are due to government manipulations of the money system.  But this time, that is not the case:  it’s a classic “black swan event”.  As far as I can see, the only answer they have is:  tough.  Bad things happen.  I suspect that even most Republicans really don’t think that’s good enough.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBoth Ghate and Salmieri are more worried about the threat to individual liberties than about covid-19:  they are quite explicit about that.  But I didn’t hear anything that would give any meaningful help to decision makers – in business, in government, in the medical profession – about the choices they’ll have to make in the next year."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3812818676362735716\/comments\/default\/3311494659770377165"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3812818676362735716\/comments\/default\/3311494659770377165"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/objectivism-vs-sam-harris.html?showComment=1584761026277#c3311494659770377165","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gordon 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So why keep beating it?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDragonfly"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3812818676362735716\/comments\/default\/4414566373427013627"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3812818676362735716\/comments\/default\/4414566373427013627"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/objectivism-vs-sam-harris.html?showComment=1583364947073#c4414566373427013627","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/objectivism-vs-sam-harris.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3812818676362735716","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3812818676362735716","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/04\/2020 03:35:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2170270397763757544"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-03T19:20:14.529-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-03T19:20:14.529-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Historian Carl L. Becker in History of Political P..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Historian Carl L. Becker in History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776 (1909) formulated the Progressive interpretation of the American Revolution. He said there were two revolutions: one against Britain to obtain home rule, and the other to determine who should rule at home.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECharles A. Beard:\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913). In this book he claimed that the Constitution had been formulated by interest groups whose motivations were just as much personal financial ones as they were political ones.\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6810107803370060514\/comments\/default\/2170270397763757544"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6810107803370060514\/comments\/default\/2170270397763757544"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/objectivism-politics-part-14.html?showComment=1583292014529#c2170270397763757544","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/objectivism-politics-part-14.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6810107803370060514","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6810107803370060514","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/03\/2020 07:20:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8062758316868805946"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-03T18:57:08.965-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-03T18:57:08.965-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Federalists and Anti-Federalists were the firs..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The Federalists and Anti-Federalists were the first political factions of the U.S.. They arose out of a debate over the ratification of the 1787 Constitution and went on to form the basis of our current two-party system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECharles A. Beard:\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913). In this book he claimed that the Constitution had been formulated by interest groups whose motivations were just as much personal financial ones as they were political ones."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4764976579960732133\/comments\/default\/8062758316868805946"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4764976579960732133\/comments\/default\/8062758316868805946"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/objectivism-politics-part-15.html?showComment=1583290628965#c8062758316868805946","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/objectivism-politics-part-15.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4764976579960732133","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4764976579960732133","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/03\/2020 06:57:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6565964138480624079"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-03T18:45:04.797-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-03T18:45:04.797-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Cost of Enlightenment\n\n\nN. T. Wright offers: “..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The Cost of Enlightenment\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EN. T. Wright offers: “Any movement that gave us… the guillotine as one of its first fruits and the Gulag as one of its finest cannot simply be affirmed as it stands.” (Wright 2008)\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe “bads” of the Enlightenment are not so readily admitted by its proponents: communism, eugenics, racial purity, selective breeding, National Socialism, Fabianism, Progressivism, fascism, egalitarianism, modern democracy, freedom from all intermediating governance institutions, the ineffective separation of church and state, the American Revolution, the French Revolution.\u003Cbr \/\u003ERegarding the two revolutions: The America that came out of the Revolution is described by Ralph Raico as “…the model liberal nation, and, after England, the exemplar of liberalism to the world.” This “exemplar of liberalism” didn’t survive four-score-and-seven years, ending in 1861—and if you prefer to make a case for 1846 or even 1812, you will get no argument from me. Whatever one believes regarding liberalism, staying power certainly cannot be considered a meaningful characteristic."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3388541790750265532\/comments\/default\/6565964138480624079"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3388541790750265532\/comments\/default\/6565964138480624079"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/objectivism-politics-part-54.html?showComment=1583289904797#c6565964138480624079","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/objectivism-politics-part-54.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3388541790750265532","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3388541790750265532","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/03\/2020 06:45:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-362251046267767394"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-03T18:25:44.369-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-03T18:25:44.369-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Ayn Rand Didn\u0026#39;t Understand Capitalism. Or Altr..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Ayn Rand Didn\u0026#39;t Understand Capitalism. Or Altruism. Or Christianity. Or Reality.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe did not understood how they ended up from the freest society on earth in 1775 to slavery today\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe American Revolution Was a Mistake\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy Gary North\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe colonists had a sweet deal in 1775. Great Britain was the second freest nation on earth. Switzerland was probably the most free nation, but I would be hard-pressed to identify any other nation in 1775 that was ahead of Great Britain. And in Great Britain’s Empire, the colonists were by far the freest.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI will say it, loud and clear: the freest society on earth in 1775 was British North America, with the exception of the slave system. Anyone who was not a slave had incomparable freedom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJefferson wrote these words in the Declaration of Independence:\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI can think of no more misleading political assessment uttered by any leader in the history of the United States. No words having such great impact historically in this nation were less true. No political bogeymen invoked by any political sect as “the liar of the century” ever said anything as verifiably false as these words.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2011\/07\/gary-north\/the-american-revolution-was-a-mistake\/"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6249207490052100378\/comments\/default\/362251046267767394"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6249207490052100378\/comments\/default\/362251046267767394"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/objectivism-politics-part-52.html?showComment=1583288744369#c362251046267767394","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/objectivism-politics-part-52.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6249207490052100378","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6249207490052100378","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/03\/2020 06:25:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3975444657324966936"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-03T18:06:10.019-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-03T18:06:10.019-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Faith is basic to the lives of all people. 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We believe it anyway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI call the free market economy a predictable institutional result of society’s acceptance and enforcement of these principles, all of which are mandated in the Bible: the doctrine of linear time, the doctrine of ethical progress (progressive sanctification), private property, the rule of law, civil laws against theft, taxes below ten percent of income, men’s strict legal responsibility for their actions, the rejection of envy, wealth as a confirmation of the covenant, and men’s commitment to leaving an inheritance to their grandchildren.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThroughout the history of economic thought, there has been a debate over the legal and moral foundations of the free market. Is the free market’s system of production autonomous, or is it under the authority of the state?\u003Cbr \/\u003EA handful of economists have said that it is autonomous. The state has no legitimate function, either morally or practically. The most notable of these economists was Murray Rothbard, who died in 1995. He persuaded dozens of other economists, but there have never been many. All other economists believe that the market is not autonomous. It derives moral and judicial support from the civil government.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEconomists have long debated these questions. First, what is the justification of state authority over the market? In which area of life? Second, who speaks for the state? On what basis? Third, what are the moral and legal limits of state intervention? How can we know? Fourth, which social sanctions are inherently political, and which are the outcome of market competition? Fifth, what system of ownership produces the highest rate of economic growth?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.garynorth.com\/public\/16723.cfm"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/410763279789666099\/comments\/default\/3975444657324966936"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/410763279789666099\/comments\/default\/3975444657324966936"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/objectivism-politics-part-49.html?showComment=1583287570019#c3975444657324966936","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/objectivism-politics-part-49.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-410763279789666099","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/410763279789666099","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/03\/2020 06:06:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4789896105949712882"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-03T17:50:57.950-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-03T17:50:57.950-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Gary North:\u2028\u2028\nJustice produces wealth. \nAdam Smith..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Gary North:\u2028\u2028\u003Cbr \/\u003EJustice produces wealth. \u003Cbr \/\u003EAdam Smith understood this; his disciples rarely have. \u003Cbr \/\u003EHis moderate deism was a desiccated version of the covenantal Presbyterianism of his Scottish peers. His contractualism was a man-centered version of their covenantalism. \u003Cbr \/\u003EHis orderly world of economic causation rested on moral cause and effect in history. \u003Cbr \/\u003ESmith’s epistemology moved in the direction of autonomy, no doubt, but his economic theory was not an exercise in value-free methodology. \u003Cbr \/\u003EHe recognized that an economy is grounded in moral causation, for society rests on justice. \u003Cbr \/\u003EHe wrote this in the Theory of Moral Sentiments: \u003Cbr \/\u003E“Society may subsist, though not in the most comfortable state, without beneficence; but the prevalence of injustice must utterly destroy it.” Social order is not the product of immoral behavior, however profitable vice may be in the short run. “Vice is always capricious—virtue only is regular and orderly.” Self-interest that is devoid of love of one’s neighbor cannot build a civilization. “As to love our neighbour as we love ourselves is the great law of Christianity, so it is the great precept of nature that we love ourselves only as we love our neighbour, or, what amounts to the same thing, as our neighbour is capable of loving us.” \u003Cbr 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05:50:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2105037408479394959"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-03T17:12:16.703-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-03T17:12:16.703-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville\n\nIt ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt must never be forgotten that religion gave birth to Anglo- American society.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ebut there is no country in the whole world in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America and there can be no greater proof of its utility, and of its conformity to human nature, than that its influence is most powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth.\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3847118827082925448\/comments\/default\/2105037408479394959"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3847118827082925448\/comments\/default\/2105037408479394959"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/objectivism-politics-part-47.html?showComment=1583284336703#c2105037408479394959","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/objectivism-politics-part-47.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3847118827082925448","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3847118827082925448","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/03\/2020 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Constitutional Convention of 1821\u003Cbr \/\u003EChancellor James Kent\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe tendency of universal suffrage, is to jeopardize the rights of property, and the principles of liberty. There is a constant tendency in human society, and the history of every age proves it; there is a tendency in the poor to covet and to share the plunder of the rich; in the debtor to relax or avoid the obligation of contracts; in the majority to tyrannize over the minority, and trample down their rights; in the indolent and the profligate, to cast the whole burthens of society upon the industrious and the virtuous; and there is a tendency in ambitious and wicked men, to inflame these combustible materials.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThou shalt not covet; thou shalt not steal; are divine injunctions induced by this miserable depravity of our nature.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe notion that every man that works a day on the road, or serves an idle hour in the militia, is entitled as of right to an equal participation in the whole power of the government, is most unreasonable, and has no foundation in justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethe individual who contributes only one cent to the common stock, ought not to have the same power and influence in directing the property concerns of the partnership, as he who contributes his thousands. He will not have the same inducements to care, and diligence, and fidelity. His inducements and his temptation would be to divide the whole capital\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4398585262896630984\/comments\/default\/3036264322712913716"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4398585262896630984\/comments\/default\/3036264322712913716"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/objectivism-politics-part-46.html?showComment=1583283800546#c3036264322712913716","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/objectivism-politics-part-46.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4398585262896630984","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4398585262896630984","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/03\/2020 05:03:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4258238482874957395"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-03T16:52:41.840-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-03T16:52:41.840-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"No Protestant church member who refuses to tithe t..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"No Protestant church member who refuses to tithe to the local church should be allowed to vote in that church, any more than a person who does not pay taxes should be allowed to vote for politicians who will collect and spend taxes. The Protestant church, however, has set the pattern for the modern State. The Protestant church allows non-tithing members to vote. The modern State allows welfare recipients to vote.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis political debate goes back to the Putney debates of 1647, when officers in Cromwell\u0026#39;s Puritan army debated the right to vote. The Levellers, represented by Col. Rainborough, demanded the right to vote apart from property ownership. Cromwell\u0026#39;s son-in-law, Henry Ireton, argued that this would lead to political tyranny over the propertied classes by the poor. In the intensely theological civil war of England, where issues of church and State were intertwined, the connection between civil voting and property was well understood. The analogous issue has never been clearly understood in ecclesiastical matters. The Levellers have won the debate. They have won it in the State because they first won it in the church.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.garynorth.com\/public\/15062.cfm\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1527337963104646186\/comments\/default\/4258238482874957395"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1527337963104646186\/comments\/default\/4258238482874957395"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/objectivism-politics-part-45.html?showComment=1583283161840#c4258238482874957395","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/objectivism-politics-part-45.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1527337963104646186","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1527337963104646186","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/03\/2020 04:52:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4743347291596232659"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-03T16:51:14.987-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-03T16:51:14.987-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Marx wrote that whenever capitalists accept the ri..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Marx wrote that whenever capitalists accept the right of propertyless men to vote, private property is in theory abolished. “Is not private property abolished in idea if the non-property owner has become legislator for the property owner? The property qualification for the suffrage is the last political form of giving recognition to private property.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShow me an academic, Ph.D-holding economist who calls for a universal flat sales tax to replace the income tax, as well as the abolition of the right to vote for non-property owners — property in land or savings equal in value to a year’s income for the average resident in the jurisdiction in which he is registered to vote. Show me an economist who argues that a person’s receipt of direct government transfer payments such as aid to dependent children or food stamps should disqualify that person from the voting booth until he or she no longer receives the money. Show me his articles on these issues in the American Economic Review or any other tenure-qualifying professional journal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2001\/05\/gary-north\/modern-economics-what-is-it\/"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1527337963104646186\/comments\/default\/4743347291596232659"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1527337963104646186\/comments\/default\/4743347291596232659"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/objectivism-politics-part-45.html?showComment=1583283074987#c4743347291596232659","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/objectivism-politics-part-45.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1527337963104646186","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1527337963104646186","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/03\/2020 04:51:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4073702198206505946"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-03T16:39:08.735-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-03T16:39:08.735-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Rights always come from god.\nEvery society have la..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Rights always come from god.\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery society have laws which say you can do this and you can not do that.\u003Cbr \/\u003EWell, who ever write or give that law is god.\u2028\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn America since 1789 “we the people” is that god\u003Cbr \/\u003EOf course people need representative — today they are 9 judges."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6442103663706252596\/comments\/default\/4073702198206505946"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6442103663706252596\/comments\/default\/4073702198206505946"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/objectivism-politics-part-43.html?showComment=1583282348735#c4073702198206505946","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/objectivism-politics-part-43.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6442103663706252596","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6442103663706252596","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/03\/2020 04:39:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-9218639487847625023"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-03T16:14:04.329-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-03T16:14:04.329-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Capitalism Is Not Inherently Immoral, Contrary to ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Capitalism Is Not Inherently Immoral, Contrary to Prof. Eric Foner.\u003Cbr \/\u003EGary North - December 20, 2012\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EProf. Foner…he is incorrect when he says that capitalism is immoral. Capitalism follows Smith\u0026#39;s lead: to be successful, a producer must serve the customer. You must appeal to his self-interest. This is surely moral. It is anti-coercive. It does not rely on a badge and a gun to extract wealth from someone else.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is a confrontation within the Republican Party: social conservatives vs. libertarians. But this is not based on morality vs. immorality or amorality. It is based on rival views of morality.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.garynorth.com\/public\/10456.cfm"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3268655715704605635\/comments\/default\/9218639487847625023"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3268655715704605635\/comments\/default\/9218639487847625023"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/objectivism-politics-part-39.html?showComment=1583280844329#c9218639487847625023","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/objectivism-politics-part-39.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3268655715704605635","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3268655715704605635","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/03\/2020 04:14:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5023751662580916461"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-03T16:06:22.327-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-03T16:06:22.327-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Socialism: Illegitimate, Not Just Inefficient. Gar..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Socialism: Illegitimate, Not Just Inefficient. Gary North - June 07, 2018\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMoral argument for capitalism\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA successful critique of the messianic State must offer a rival view to the prevailing social order’s views of justice and injustice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe moral case against socialism and collectivism generally.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you do not have the right to disown a piece of property, then you do not own it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe libertarian says, “This bread is mine.” The Christian says (or ought to say), “This bread is God’s, and He has delegated control over it, and responsibility for it, to me.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESocialist and Collectivist believe that “some of your bread is mine.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESocialist and Collectivist rejects the owner’s exclusive claim, meaning his right to exclude everyone else from this bread. Society has a moral claim on this bread, the socialist claims.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.garynorth.com\/public\/18167.cfm"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3268655715704605635\/comments\/default\/5023751662580916461"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3268655715704605635\/comments\/default\/5023751662580916461"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/objectivism-politics-part-39.html?showComment=1583280382327#c5023751662580916461","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/objectivism-politics-part-39.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3268655715704605635","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3268655715704605635","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/03\/2020 04:06:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6620138122306628680"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-03T15:42:00.602-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-03T15:42:00.602-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Government is not charity \n\nNot Yours to Give Spee..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Government is not charity \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot Yours to Give Speech before the House of Representatives by David (Davy) Crockett\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money. \u003Cbr \/\u003EWe cannot without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week’s pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks.”\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethe government ought to have in the Treasury no more than enough for its legitimate purposes. But that has nothing with the question. The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man, particularly under our system of collecting revenue by a tariff, which reaches every man in the country, no matter how poor he may be, and the poorer he is the more he pays in proportion to his means.\u003Cbr \/\u003E“‘If you had the right to give anything, the amount was simply a matter of discretion with you, and you had as much right to give $20,000,000 as $20,000. If you have the right to give at all; and as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe, or profess to believe, is a charity and to any amount you may think proper. You will very easily perceive what a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people on the other. No, Colonel, Congress has no right to give charity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E“‘Individual members may give as much of their own money as they please, but they have no right to touch a dollar of the public money for that purpose. If twice as many houses had been burned in this country as in Georgetown, neither you nor any other member of Congress would have thought of appropriating a dollar for our relief. There are about two hundred and forty members of Congress. If they had shown their sympathy for the sufferers by contributing each one week’s pay, it would have made over $13,000. There are plenty of wealthy men around Washington who could have given $20,000 without depriving themselves of even a luxury of life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E“‘The congressmen chose to keep their own money, which, if reports be true, some of them spend not very creditably; and the people about Washington, no doubt, applauded you for relieving them from necessity of giving what was not yours to give. The people have delegated to Congress, by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay moneys, and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation, and a violation of the Constitution.\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4702251277615159542\/comments\/default\/6620138122306628680"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4702251277615159542\/comments\/default\/6620138122306628680"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/objectivism-politics-part-38.html?showComment=1583278920602#c6620138122306628680","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"max"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00656136425753297294"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/objectivism-politics-part-38.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4702251277615159542","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4702251277615159542","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1572735470"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/03\/2020 03:42:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7454905424699026705"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-03T10:20:19.535-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-03T10:20:19.535-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I would guess that the blog has been inactive main..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I would guess that the blog has been inactive mainly because there\u0026#39;s not a whole lot else to say. If you need to \u0026quot;crush\u0026quot; Objectivism, there\u0026#39;s a voluminous archive of posts where most Objectivist points have already been picked apart. Objectivism itself, and in part due to its very nature, hasn\u0026#39;t had much of what you could call \u0026quot;new ideas\u0026quot; since Rand died, so it\u0026#39;s not like they\u0026#39;re really providing much to critique on a regular basis. I could understand if things started to feel repetitive, with few subjects requiring yet another go-round of the same old arguments..."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3812818676362735716\/comments\/default\/7454905424699026705"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3812818676362735716\/comments\/default\/7454905424699026705"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/objectivism-vs-sam-harris.html?showComment=1583259619535#c7454905424699026705","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/objectivism-vs-sam-harris.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3812818676362735716","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3812818676362735716","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/03\/2020 10:20:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2648417863451328733"},"published":{"$t":"2020-03-01T02:22:02.673-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-03-01T02:22:02.673-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"While the influence of classical pagan philosophy ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the influence of classical pagan philosophy was crucial for the development of medieval philosophy, it is likewise crucial that until the twelfth and thirteenth centuries almost all the original Greek texts were lost to the Latin West, so that they exerted their influence only indirectly. They were “lost” not in the sense that the texts were simply unavailable but in the sense that very few people could read them, since they were written in the wrong language. As the Western Roman Empire gradually disintegrated, the knowledge of Greek all but disappeared. Boethius (c. 480–545\/526) was still fluent in Greek, but he recognized the need for translations even in his own day; after him Greek was effectively a dead language in the West. There were still some pockets of Greek literacy, especially around such figures as Isidore of Seville and the Venerable Bede, preserving and transmitting ideas of ancient learning, but making little impact on medieval philosophical thought.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor Aristotle, the Middle Ages were in somewhat better shape. Marius Victorinus translated the Categories and On Interpretation. A little over a century later, the logical works in general, except perhaps for the Posterior Analytics, were translated by Boethius, c. 510–12, but only his translations of the Categories and On Interpretation ever got into general circulation before the twelfth century. The rest of Aristotle was eventually translated into Latin, but only much later, from about the middle of the twelfth century. First there came the rest of the logical works, and then the Physics, the Metaphysics, and so on. Essentially all the works had been translated by the middle of the thirteenth century (Dod [1982]). This “recovery” of Aristotle in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries was a momentous event in the history of medieval philosophy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGerard of Cremona (d. 1187). Gerard began work at Toledo in 1134. He translated Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics, together with Themistius’s commentary on it, Aristotle’s Physics, On the Heavens, On Generation and Corruption, and parts of his Meteorology, the Muslim Al-Kindi’s (d. 873) important On the Intellect and other works of his. Gerard also translated the very important Book of Causes (= Liber de causis), falsely attributed to Aristotle although the work is in fact based on certain theses extracted from Proclus’s Elements of Theology.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy the end of the twelfth century, almost all of Aristotle’s works available today had been translated into Latin and, together with the commentaries and other newly translated texts, gradually began to circulate. By the mid-thirteenth century, they were widely known. The first things to spread were the remaining logical writings of Aristotle’s Organon, those not already widely known from Boethius’s translations some six hundred years previously. These new logical writings, as distinct from the “Old Logic” (= Logica vetus) stemming from Boethius, became known collectively as the “New Logic” (= Logica nova). After them, the Physics, Metaphysics and other Aristotelian writings gradually became known.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/medieval-philosophy\/index.html#ref-11\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGaius Marius Victorinus (c. AD 300-370)\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe is also known for translating two of Aristotle\u0026#39;s books from ancient Greek into Latin: the Categories and On Interpretation (De Interpretatione).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius 477–524 AD\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs the author of numerous handbooks and translator of Aristotle, he became the main intermediary between Classical antiquity and following centuries.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJames of Venice\u003Cbr \/\u003Ewas a significant translator of Aristotle of the twelfth century. He has been called the first systematic translator of Aristotle since Boethius.\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe was active in particular in Constantinople; he translated the Posterior Analytics from Greek to Latin in the period 1125-1150. This made available in Western Europe for the first time in half a millennium what was then called the New Logic, in other words the full Organon. 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Please say no - Ayn Rand nee..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"So is this blog dead? Please say no - Ayn Rand needs to be intellectually crushed."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3812818676362735716\/comments\/default\/1942143741677607145"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3812818676362735716\/comments\/default\/1942143741677607145"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/objectivism-vs-sam-harris.html?showComment=1582919777780#c1942143741677607145","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Strelnikov"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12660962615198939441"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"24","src":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-7RcPaLS3fRc\/Tg1zy9EKW0I\/AAAAAAAAAAQ\/pGF_tFL--QA\/s220\/033.JPG"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/objectivism-vs-sam-harris.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3812818676362735716","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3812818676362735716","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-365053326"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"2\/28\/2020 11:56:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8909204608127127742"},"published":{"$t":"2020-01-15T14:04:38.715-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-01-15T14:04:38.715-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Can someone help me with a Peikoff reference?\n\nWhi..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Can someone help me with a Peikoff reference?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile thinking about the Carl Barney\/ARI scandal*, I remembered an off-hand remark Peikoff made during a Q\u0026amp;A in a lecture or course recorded sometime in the 1990s. The remark: \u0026quot;if Objectivism had the money Dianetics has, we could really get somewhere!\u0026quot; My question: what is the lecture or course?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMy interest in this remark is that it seems to show that Peikoff was motivated to welcome and even court Barney\u0026#39;s support specifically.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI listened to the recording in 1996 or early 1997 when it was new or quite recent (and then tossed it in the garbage). I\u0026#39;m slightly paraphrasing the remark but am certain that it\u0026#39;s near-verbatim; for example, I specifically remember his using the word \u0026quot;Dianetics\u0026quot; instead of \u0026quot;Scientology.\u0026quot; I\u0026#39;m also certain that the source isn\u0026#39;t before 1995.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI thought it was \u0026quot;Thinking, Judging, and Not Being Moralistic\u0026quot; from 1995, reportedly the year Barney became an ARI board member. However, the remark doesn\u0026#39;t appear in the only available online version of that course.** Was the remark edited out of this version of the recording? Or am I thinking of a different lecture or course?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThanks to anyone who can help me with tracking this down.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E___\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E* http:\/\/ariwatch.com\/WhoIsCarlBarney.htm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E** https:\/\/estore.aynrand.org\/p\/99\/judging-feeling-and-not-being-moralistic-mp3-download\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso posted on YouTube in two parts:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPart One “What Judgment Requires”\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NoxCzKknwh8\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPart Two “The Proper Role of Emotions” (this part contains the Q\u0026amp;A)\u003Cbr 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Ari Armstrong wants to criticize Harris for believing in \u0026quot;hedonism,\u0026quot; which Armstrong defines as short-term pursuit of pleasure. I\u0026#39;m well aware that Armstrong\u0026#39;s definition of hedonism goes against how others might define the term. But on this blog what I call \u0026quot;Dogberry Rules\u0026quot; are in force, which basically means that people get to define terms as they see fit and we don\u0026#39;t argue over what might be the \u0026quot;correct\u0026quot; definition of a word (there\u0026#39;s no such thing). Armstrong may mean something different from the term \u0026quot;hedonism\u0026quot; than what Bentham or J.S. Mill might have meant. But if we want to understand what Armstrong\u0026#39;s criticisms of Harris, we have to honor Armstrong\u0026#39;s usage of the term.  The point is to figure out what meaning people are trying to convey by the words they use, not to argue over usage. 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Lewis rubs me the wrong way, as do Melville a..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"C.S. Lewis rubs me the wrong way, as do Melville and any number of authors. But we have to separate the value of an author\u0026#39;s work from our personal reaction to his expressed personality. That\u0026#39;s an elementary point, yet Rand didn\u0026#39;t grasp it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELewis was a solid logician and identified some truths, and Melville\u0026#39;s Moby Dick is a good piece of work, despite their setting my teeth on edge when I read them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome people are just more sensitive to personality issues than others, I think. Rand wrote at some length about \u0026quot;sense of life\u0026quot; and pontificated about \u0026quot;psycho-epistemology\u0026quot;: she was very sensitive and judgmental about personality, yet bad at judging character.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIsn\u0026#39;t the sine qua non of rationality the temporary setting aside of one\u0026#39;s emotional reactions so that one can think? Sure, feel that x is \u0026quot;an abysmal bastard\u0026quot; (whatever that is). But study his work accurately before making a definite judgment. That was often too much to ask of The Voice of Reason. Denunciation and attitudinizing were her preference.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(You can see what drove Rand up the wall about Lewis\u0026#39;s written personality if you compare a representative non-fiction passage by Lewis with Toohey\u0026#39;s column about Roark in The Fountainhead. She may have even described Lewis as \u0026quot;a Toohey\u0026quot; in the Marginalia, I can\u0026#39;t remember.)"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/275063369098194368"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/275063369098194368"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html?showComment=1575400115170#c275063369098194368","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5535847946098440215","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5535847946098440215","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"12\/03\/2019 11:08:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4210139048881205174"},"published":{"$t":"2019-12-03T09:45:09.751-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-12-03T09:45:09.751-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;eudaimonia isn\u0026#39;t utility, but is more of..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;eudaimonia isn\u0026#39;t utility, but is more of a sense of doing the right thing at the right time. It is a good flow of life.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne thing I\u0026#39;ve noticed about the generations born after World War Two, and it may be their defining characteristic: they are indefeasibly anti-transcendental. \u0026quot;Good flow,\u0026quot; \u0026quot;process not result,\u0026quot; feel groovy but be careful - all of that kind of stuff is not just 1960s dirty hippie crap, the droppings of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. No, as a debilitating cultural force, that stuff stretches all the way back to the 1940s and ahead to the reverse-mortgage Boomers of today.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut were ancients like Epicurus really so shallow? I doubt it. Don\u0026#39;t forget that we have very little of Epicurus\u0026#39;s writing - just a few paragraphs. Imagine trying to understand Rand\u0026#39;s philosophy if all we had of it were some sentences from \u0026quot;Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal\u0026quot; and a couple zingers from \u0026quot;Atlas Shrugged.\u0026quot; The lacuna in such ancient texts may have been religious or metaphysically transcendent material, even if only ritualistic, and might have been removed as much from deliberate Christian or Muslim omission of pagan religiosity as from accident.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr maybe old Pick in his go-with-the-flow wisdom really would be on hepatitis-C medication were he alive today, who knows.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn any case, for the last 70 years there has been a pronounced phenomenon of generations of people who embody the old cliche: they will \u0026quot;believe in anything except God.\u0026quot; The holy flow, the holy stock market killing, the holy Marvel toy collection, the holy RV tourism, the holy drug habit, the holy anus, anything. Children, the future, non-situational ethics, anything bigger than oneself, not so much."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3812818676362735716\/comments\/default\/4210139048881205174"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3812818676362735716\/comments\/default\/4210139048881205174"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/objectivism-vs-sam-harris.html?showComment=1575395109751#c4210139048881205174","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Yes We Kant"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/objectivism-vs-sam-harris.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3812818676362735716","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3812818676362735716","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"12\/03\/2019 09:45:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-400054722177936781"},"published":{"$t":"2019-11-06T14:48:24.694-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-11-06T14:48:24.694-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"In your attack on \u0026quot;well-being\u0026quot; as hedoni..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In your attack on \u0026quot;well-being\u0026quot; as hedonistic I think you\u0026#39;re making two mistakes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFirst, hedonism, especially as advocated by Epicurus was explicitly a long-term view. Epicurus argued for extreme caution in the pursuit of immediate pleasures, precisely because they have the capacity to bring pain in the future. While people might use the word hedonism to denigrate short-term pleasure seeking, the people who self-identify as hedonists tend to identify with rational calculation based on expected outcomes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo, eudaimoniac ethics based on virtue are quite different from ethics based on outcome maximization, because eudaimonia is pursued for its own sake, and any list of specific outcomes are not eudiamonia. In other words, eudaimonia isn\u0026#39;t utility, but is more of a sense of doing the right thing at the right time. It is a good flow of life. It is more about the PROCESS than the RESULT.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWell-being could totally be interpreted as eudiamonia, as when we interpret a certain function of the body as \u0026quot;being well\u0026quot;. But the difference between Sam Harris\u0026#39; approach and a eudaimoniac approach is spelled out in his debate against Jordan Peterson\u0026#39;s meaning-based approach. Harris insists that well-being ought to be determined from instrumental rationality applied to human pleasure and pain. But Peterson does not think we can do that calculus (in principle), because our inborn values are revealed to us through participation in virtue, society, dialogue, etc."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3812818676362735716\/comments\/default\/400054722177936781"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3812818676362735716\/comments\/default\/400054722177936781"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/objectivism-vs-sam-harris.html?showComment=1573080504694#c400054722177936781","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Huginn"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/10523270935823325822"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/objectivism-vs-sam-harris.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3812818676362735716","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3812818676362735716","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-704152080"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11\/06\/2019 02:48:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8069252000023151816"},"published":{"$t":"2019-10-28T07:41:42.522-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-10-28T07:41:42.522-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Your house is valueble for me. 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And even more obviously, one of Rand\u0026#39;s \u0026quot;whim-worshippers\u0026quot;.  None of his actions proceed from even a minimum set of convictions.  Aside from using government power to get more money for his corporation, they\u0026#39;re all done either to inflate his ego, appease his base - or undo something simply because Obama did it.  Changing a weather map with a sharpie - then coercing the bureaucrat in charge into agreeing with him?  This guy makes Atlas Shrugged villains look plausible.  He\u0026#39;s sort of a low grade version of Cuffy Meigs. 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Kind of what you\u0026#39;d expect:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/courses.aynrand.org\/campus-courses\/ayn-rands-life-highlights-and-sidelights\/?fbclid=IwAR3lQD_jp_Vt9eggrjUHW0OcDbzm_3F76Bi0h9RL8Qe6jBvIxglTBFQHAP4\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E-NP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3812818676362735716\/comments\/default\/5400428501192248540"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3812818676362735716\/comments\/default\/5400428501192248540"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/objectivism-vs-sam-harris.html?showComment=1570889519562#c5400428501192248540","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/objectivism-vs-sam-harris.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3812818676362735716","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3812818676362735716","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10\/12\/2019 07:11:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7659285801286217065"},"published":{"$t":"2019-08-03T07:46:26.831-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-08-03T07:46:26.831-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"What\u0026#39;s most interesting is that the Brook\u0026#39;..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"What\u0026#39;s most interesting is that the Brook\u0026#39;s dislike of Trump concerns mainly the issue of immigration - subject that Rand didn\u0026#39;t write anything about.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI don\u0026#39;t know if Brook said how he voted (although not for Trump obviously) but there are Objectivists who say they will vote for whoever the Democrats nominate.  It\u0026#39;s hard to imagine that Rand would vote for someone who supports ending private health insurance, wants to bring back forced bussing, supports de facto open borders and wants reparations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3812818676362735716\/comments\/default\/7659285801286217065"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3812818676362735716\/comments\/default\/7659285801286217065"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/objectivism-vs-sam-harris.html?showComment=1564843586831#c7659285801286217065","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/objectivism-vs-sam-harris.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3812818676362735716","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3812818676362735716","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"8\/03\/2019 07:46:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8743876199145542577"},"published":{"$t":"2019-08-02T14:14:02.716-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-08-02T14:14:02.716-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I wonder if Peikoff knows that Brook now claims th..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EI wonder if Peikoff knows that Brook now claims the power to speak ex cathedra.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs with Peikoff\u0026#39;s fatwa against the Republicans fifteen years ago, one wonders if Ayn Rand would be entirely behind this. Obviously, she would not approve of many things about Trump. But she didn\u0026#39;t approve of many things about Nixon, yet she still voted for him. If one of the hard lefties on the Democratic side gets the nomination, what does Brook want the Objectivist faithful to do?"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3812818676362735716\/comments\/default\/8743876199145542577"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3812818676362735716\/comments\/default\/8743876199145542577"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/objectivism-vs-sam-harris.html?showComment=1564780442716#c8743876199145542577","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/objectivism-vs-sam-harris.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3812818676362735716","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3812818676362735716","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"8\/02\/2019 02:14:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1097237493450444541"},"published":{"$t":"2019-07-29T04:34:26.308-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-07-29T04:34:26.308-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I don\u0026#39;t know if anyone has been following it, ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I don\u0026#39;t know if anyone has been following it, but Yaron Brook just issued a fatwa:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E____________\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThose of you who are apologists for Donald Trump, please never use the word \u0026#39;Objectivism\u0026#39; to associate it with yourself. Because you cannot be Objectivists. You are not Objectivists, if you apologize for this guy. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd you are not doing anyone a favor by selling-out, selling-out the fundamental ideas that we are for. For the sake of what? Popularity, defeating the left? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou\u0026#39;re sell-outs, you\u0026#39;re the fifth-column within Objectivism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E____________\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI wonder if Peikoff knows that Brook now claims the power to speak ex cathedra.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3812818676362735716\/comments\/default\/1097237493450444541"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3812818676362735716\/comments\/default\/1097237493450444541"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/objectivism-vs-sam-harris.html?showComment=1564400066308#c1097237493450444541","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/objectivism-vs-sam-harris.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3812818676362735716","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3812818676362735716","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/29\/2019 04:34:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5751277507590529682"},"published":{"$t":"2019-07-24T11:57:12.690-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-07-24T11:57:12.690-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Rand\u0026#39;s best writing is in her descriptions of ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Rand\u0026#39;s best writing is in her descriptions of environments wherein she sets a mood. A city street, or the Galt train ride. Some beautiful stuff there. Also, I like the way she characterizes the expressions on the faces of her characters, especially the \u0026quot;bad guys.\u0026quot; Some of these characters are hilarious, and lead me to think that Rand could have written some wonderful farces or comedies. But AS relies a lot on literary crutches such as overwritten analogies or the reliance on some variant of \u0026quot;astonishment\u0026quot; (which shows up so may times it clearly reveals she could have used an editor, which she might have arrogantly refused out a sense of her own genius). Another weird thing is Rearden\u0026#39;s not being able to name the impulses he feels toward Dagny (her characters seem to feel a lot of stuff that they can\u0026#39;t name or fathom, stuff that is actually pretty obvious to most normal people, unheroic as they may be). His desire for her, when realized, comes as a shock, as he realizes that this is what he had felt all along but couldn\u0026#39;t name. Give me a break. A man knows when he wants to go to bed with somebody. You know it, and it\u0026#39;s no mystery to say to oneself \u0026quot;I\u0026#39;d like to _____ her.\u0026quot; LOL.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs far as family and children are concerned, at least one of her heroic figures appears to be the source of his own failed legacy—the founder of the Starnes motor plant. This guy apparently had kids but didn\u0026#39;t teach them anything worth while. He loved motors and work but could not convey or communicate anything of value to the human beings he brought into the world. A failure on the human level, which undermines Rand\u0026#39;s alleged love for man. Also, apparently Rearden never had a father? We meet his silly and trivial mother, but where\u0026#39;s his dad. No comment or backstory to that. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAS is a very flawed book and fails on many counts. So why does it continue to have such an interest level? What truth is revealed in it that cause people to continue to read it? I would nominate the following: Rand exposes, ruthlessly, the psychology of envy. And at least in one case she puts words in the mouth of Jim Taggart that, in 1957 would have seemed hyperbolic and absurd, where Taggart is complaining about Rearden\u0026#39;s claiming Rearden Metal as his own invention. In that scene, Taggart sounds a lot like Barack Obama and his \u0026quot;you didn\u0026#39;t build that\u0026quot; polemic against invention, creativity, and ownership. An absurd character in a novel of 1957 elected POTUS in 2008? The fact of the matter is that there are, indeed, real-life people who think like characters in Atlas Shrugged. "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/116171532645181146\/comments\/default\/5751277507590529682"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/116171532645181146\/comments\/default\/5751277507590529682"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/whittaker-chambers-review-of-atlas.html?showComment=1563994632690#c5751277507590529682","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Ratonis"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/04883516710524427782"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/whittaker-chambers-review-of-atlas.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-116171532645181146","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/116171532645181146","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-587529291"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/24\/2019 11:57:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3973063475049310799"},"published":{"$t":"2019-07-20T05:58:22.981-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-07-20T05:58:22.981-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Ari is no longer associated with The Objective Sta..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Ari is no longer associated with The Objective Standard.  He has new book out, What\u0026#39;s Wrong With Ayn Rand\u0026#39;s ethics, which I haven\u0026#39;t read.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3812818676362735716\/comments\/default\/3973063475049310799"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3812818676362735716\/comments\/default\/3973063475049310799"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/objectivism-vs-sam-harris.html?showComment=1563627502981#c3973063475049310799","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/objectivism-vs-sam-harris.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3812818676362735716","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3812818676362735716","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/20\/2019 05:58:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4450581947292536640"},"published":{"$t":"2019-07-15T14:26:57.654-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-07-15T14:26:57.654-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Hi, Neil! \n\nGood review of \u0026quot;Religion Vs. Amer..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Hi, Neil! \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGood review of \u0026quot;Religion Vs. America.\u0026quot; I guess I\u0026#39;m not surprised that Peikoff characterizes the ancient Greeks as essentially secular humanists. If he actually possessed any intellectual curiosity, he could have benefited from reading E.R. Dodds\u0026#39; famous work \u0026quot;The Greeks and the Irrational.\u0026quot; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe might also have considered the fact that Aristotle was not the leading figure in Greek thought, as he claims; Plato and, later, the neoPlatonists were far more influential until at least the late Middle Ages. Greek thought was always inclined toward the kind of \u0026quot;rationalism\u0026quot; that pondered Platonic Forms and the mystical significance of numbers — basically a forerunner of medieval scholasticism. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs far as America is concerned, the influence of organized religion has clearly declined in recent decades, so that should mean we\u0026#39;re seeing an upsurge in liberty and rational values, right? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMP "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/4450581947292536640"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/4450581947292536640"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html?showComment=1563226017654#c4450581947292536640","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Michael Prescott"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12963295565160636175"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_KbTmBB__5VI\/ScgM6p0vSyI\/AAAAAAAAABw\/BxDb4pVoqlA\/S220\/Portrait2005a.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5535847946098440215","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5535847946098440215","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1762907438"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/15\/2019 02:26:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2562267413545438317"},"published":{"$t":"2019-07-13T08:56:00.635-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-07-13T08:56:00.635-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Hi Michael,\n\nGlad to see you back.  Do you know th..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Hi Michael,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGlad to see you back.  Do you know that Mayhew (who rewrote Rand\u0026#39;s Q\u0026amp;A) is on the ARI\u0026#39;s \u0026quot;intellectual integrity comitte\u0026quot;?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI really don\u0026#39;t think the ARI can change.  They recently reposted Peikoff\u0026#39;s silly Religions versus America\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/newideal.aynrand.org\/america-was-founded-on-secular-ideals\/\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI critique it here:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/objectivism-religion-three-common.html\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI should have mentioned the stuff about the founders supposedly being deist.  As Mark Hall said recently, you could count all the deist founders on one hand and have fingers left over.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENeil "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/2562267413545438317"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/2562267413545438317"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html?showComment=1563033360635#c2562267413545438317","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5535847946098440215","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5535847946098440215","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/13\/2019 08:56:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7799459714306173901"},"published":{"$t":"2019-07-11T21:55:34.394-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-07-11T21:55:34.394-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;If the mind is not a blank slate what\u0026#39;s ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;If the mind is not a blank slate what\u0026#39;s the point of education?\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E1. The Blank Slate means no heritable mental traits.\u003Cbr \/\u003E2. Etymologically education means \u0026quot;drawing out\u0026quot; what is in the student already in embryonic form, so to speak. It means helping them to become who they are.\u003Cbr \/\u003E3. I often wonder whether young people wouldn\u0026#39;t be better served in their education by turning them loose in libraries and workshops and, instead of offering classes, only holding office hours in case they have a question about something they found in a book or they want to hash something out in the hearing of an elder."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6023633886139834636\/comments\/default\/7799459714306173901"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6023633886139834636\/comments\/default\/7799459714306173901"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/the-evolution-of-orthodox-objectivism.html?showComment=1562907334394#c7799459714306173901","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"T. Rasa"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/the-evolution-of-orthodox-objectivism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6023633886139834636","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6023633886139834636","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/11\/2019 09:55:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2240608375578317431"},"published":{"$t":"2019-07-10T10:39:01.975-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-07-10T10:39:01.975-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"If the mind is not a blank slate what\u0026#39;s the po..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the mind is not a blank slate what\u0026#39;s the point of education?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStudents think they know it all anyway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaybe they are right!"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6023633886139834636\/comments\/default\/2240608375578317431"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6023633886139834636\/comments\/default\/2240608375578317431"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/the-evolution-of-orthodox-objectivism.html?showComment=1562780341975#c2240608375578317431","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/the-evolution-of-orthodox-objectivism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6023633886139834636","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6023633886139834636","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/10\/2019 10:39:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-745313624738258578"},"published":{"$t":"2019-07-08T17:49:07.634-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-07-08T17:49:07.634-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I’m coming very late to this discussion, but Greg ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I’m coming very late to this discussion, but Greg Nyquist\u0026#39;s comment about \u0026quot;Ayn Rand\u0026#39;s Marginalia\u0026quot; reminded me of my efforts to slog through that book some years ago. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGreg wrote, \u0026quot;Even when Rand did make an attempt to read such books, she often failed to understand them. If she was predisposed against an author, she would go out of her way to impose the worst possible interpretation (from an Objectivist POV) on his book. Meanwhile, she would not have the slightest clue what the author in question was trying to communicate. See, for example, her Marginalia to C. S. Lewis\u0026#39; Abolition of Man.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat was the prime example of her willful misunderstanding that stood out for me, too. Back in 2005, I wrote a blog post about it, which includes this passage: \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\/\/Lewis\u0026#39;s book is hardly a difficult read. It was aimed at an educated but not highbrow segment of the public, and his cautions on the potential misuse of science seem chillingly prescient in these days of genetic engineering, animal cloning, and embryonic stem cell research. He develops his case methodically, building on the premise that man\u0026#39;s power over nature translates into the power of some men over others. Rand furiously contests this idea, though she makes precious little argument against it, relying mainly on personal invective against Lewis himself, who is variously characterized as an \u0026quot;abysmal bastard ... monster ... mediocrity ... bastard ... old fool ... incredible, medieval monstrosity ... lousy bastard ... drivelling non-entity ... God-damn, beaten mystic ... abysmal caricature ... bastard ... abysmal scum.\u0026quot; (These quotes give you the tenor of the master philosopher\u0026#39;s coolly analytical mind.)\/\/\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s also worth pointing out that the editor of \u0026quot;Ayn Rand\u0026#39;s Marginalia,\u0026quot; Robert Mayhew, seems to misunderstand Lewis no less thoroughly. Maybe it’s an Objectivist thing. 🙂\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/michaelprescott.typepad.com\/michael_prescotts_blog\/2005\/07\/the_importance_.html\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/745313624738258578"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/745313624738258578"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html?showComment=1562633347634#c745313624738258578","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Michael Prescott"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12963295565160636175"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_KbTmBB__5VI\/ScgM6p0vSyI\/AAAAAAAAABw\/BxDb4pVoqlA\/S220\/Portrait2005a.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5535847946098440215","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5535847946098440215","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1762907438"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/08\/2019 05:49:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-565265859331946226"},"published":{"$t":"2019-07-02T04:50:22.442-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-07-02T04:50:22.442-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":" LE-MERIDIAN FUNDING SERVICES. 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It can be done.\u0026quot; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E*****\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGiven her premises, her meaning is clear: the individual can choose to raise his IQ by almost three standard deviations, by using his unaided rational mind. That cannot be squared with anything in the sciences of human nature. It is the reductio ad absurdum of the blank slate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEnd quote.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo be fair, this statement was from 1967.  That was before Jensen\u0026#39;s 1969 article and Hernsteins \u0026#39;72 (I think that\u0026#39;s the date, it was in the Atlantic) in which the idea that intelligence had a high genetic component made it into the public consciousness.  I recall when The Bell Curve came out, it wasn\u0026#39;t just race that got the attention but just the fact (which was consensus at the time) that intelligence was largely genetic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERand\u0026#39;s reading was limited to the New York Times so I doubt she was ever presented with the evidence for a high genetic component to intelligence.  Even today plenty of people who should know better (though not those trained in psychometrics) attack IQ testing and the high heritability of intelligence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut yeah, I think if Rand were alive today she\u0026#39;d do all she could to minimize these things out of an allegiance to the blank slate."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6023633886139834636\/comments\/default\/8489302128737649268"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6023633886139834636\/comments\/default\/8489302128737649268"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/the-evolution-of-orthodox-objectivism.html?showComment=1558873808638#c8489302128737649268","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/the-evolution-of-orthodox-objectivism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6023633886139834636","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6023633886139834636","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/26\/2019 05:30:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1866994660895504825"},"published":{"$t":"2019-05-21T20:10:16.759-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-05-21T20:10:16.759-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Gordon said:\n\n\u0026quot;[Rand] would never concede [th..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Gordon said:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;[Rand] would never concede [that people aren\u0026#39;t blank slates in the sense that she conceived of the idea]. This is a deductive system based on premises that Rand regarded as axiomatic. If any facts seemed to contradict those basic premises, she would simply assert that the report of the facts must be wrong. And that, of course, is what Objectivists still do, what they have to do, and will continue to do. Unless, of course, they abandon Objectivism.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGordon is right. Rand\u0026#39;s blank slate theory logically grounds her metaphysical view of Man (or human nature), which logically grounds the Objectivist Ethics, etc. The whole philosophy is built on it. A deductive system for sure, despite Peikoff\u0026#39;s cosmetic attempts to emphasize inductive reasoning in his last years. Rand herself says in \u0026quot;Ayn Rand Answers\u0026quot; (last question of Chapter 3): \u0026quot;I\u0026#39;d prefer that people raise their IQ from 110 to 150. It can be done.\u0026quot; Does she mean by eugenic breeding? Certainly not. She is always talking about the individual, not the collective. Eugenic breeding would be collectivist muscle-mysticism (or some such term). So does she mean implanting electrodes in the individual\u0026#39;s brain? No: her position is that philosophical truth has to be based on no special scientific apparatus, so the nature of Man\u0026#39;s mind means his \u0026quot;unaided\u0026quot; mind. (The phrase \u0026quot;unaided mind\u0026quot; has a long history in Enlightenment philosophies, to whose general line she subscribed, and she herself often used the phrase.) Given her premises, her meaning is clear: the individual can choose to raise his IQ by almost three standard deviations, by using his unaided rational mind. That cannot be squared with anything in the sciences of human nature. It is the reductio ad absurdum of the blank slate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe would be the first to say there is no such thing as \u0026quot;a little blank slate-ism.\u0026quot; You either believe Man\u0026#39;s mind is a blank slate, or you do not: 50%-80% heritable intelligence is not a *blank* slate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDiscarding the blank slate in favor of an empirically-ascertained mixture of nurture and nature collapses Objectivism\u0026#39;s logical structure, as outlined in Peikoff\u0026#39;s OPAR and passim in her writings, leaving as Greg said, \u0026quot;A sort of libertarian Sam Harris [philosophy], minus Harris\u0026#39;s scientific credentials and incisive wit.\u0026quot; Objectivism cannot be salvaged by the Dave Rubins of the world, the kind who say, \u0026quot;Why can\u0026#39;t we have both blank slate and heritable intelligence too?\u0026quot; in between drags on a joint."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6023633886139834636\/comments\/default\/1866994660895504825"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6023633886139834636\/comments\/default\/1866994660895504825"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/the-evolution-of-orthodox-objectivism.html?showComment=1558494616759#c1866994660895504825","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous is 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11:46:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4245605774712541712"},"published":{"$t":"2019-03-28T19:07:44.122-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-03-28T19:07:44.122-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;I suppose one might ask how would Objectivis..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;I suppose one might ask how would Objectivism change if it were conceded that people aren\u0026#39;t blank slates in the sense that Rand conceived of the idea.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBluntly:  she would never concede any such thing.  This is a deductive system based on premises that Rand regarded as axiomatic.  If any facts seemed to contradict those basic premises, she would simply assert that the report of the facts must be wrong.  And that, of course, is what Objectivists still do, what they have to do, and will continue to do.  Unless, of course, they abandon Objectivism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6023633886139834636\/comments\/default\/4245605774712541712"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6023633886139834636\/comments\/default\/4245605774712541712"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/the-evolution-of-orthodox-objectivism.html?showComment=1553825264122#c4245605774712541712","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gordon Burkowski"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/the-evolution-of-orthodox-objectivism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6023633886139834636","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6023633886139834636","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/28\/2019 07:07:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7174453724282855371"},"published":{"$t":"2019-03-18T13:02:41.873-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-03-18T13:02:41.873-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;admit\u0026quot;?  \u0026quot;claim\u0026quot; would be bet..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;admit\u0026quot;?  \u0026quot;claim\u0026quot; would be better."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6023633886139834636\/comments\/default\/7174453724282855371"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6023633886139834636\/comments\/default\/7174453724282855371"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/the-evolution-of-orthodox-objectivism.html?showComment=1552939361873#c7174453724282855371","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/the-evolution-of-orthodox-objectivism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6023633886139834636","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6023633886139834636","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/18\/2019 01:02:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3262490671961872488"},"published":{"$t":"2019-03-16T08:33:02.152-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-03-16T08:33:02.152-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"From what little I\u0026#39;ve read, you can hard wire ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"From what little I\u0026#39;ve read, you can hard wire your brain to some extent, although certainly not as much as Binswanger thinks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn his 2018 book on free will, ARI psychologist Edwin Locke writes that IQ tests measure intelligence and intelligence is 50-80% genetic.  (He also says that some Amazon tribes are lesser evolved humans).  This is the first time I\u0026#39;ve heard an ARI type admit that about intelligence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI suppose one might ask how would Objectivism change if it were conceded that people aren\u0026#39;t blank slates in the sense that Rand conceived of the idea.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E-NP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6023633886139834636\/comments\/default\/3262490671961872488"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6023633886139834636\/comments\/default\/3262490671961872488"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/the-evolution-of-orthodox-objectivism.html?showComment=1552750382152#c3262490671961872488","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/the-evolution-of-orthodox-objectivism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6023633886139834636","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6023633886139834636","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/16\/2019 08:33:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3749117446492720122"},"published":{"$t":"2019-03-14T07:49:56.426-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-03-14T07:49:56.426-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biswanger is an Objectivist on auto-pilot. He even..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EBiswanger is an Objectivist on auto-pilot. He even had to mention the irrationality of the Abraham\/Isaac story.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere\u0026#39;s a bit of back story behind that remark. I suspect Binswanger brought it up as a subtle dig against Jordan Peterson, who has done a lecture series on stories from the Bible (including the Abraham\/Isaac story). Binswanger has been highly critical of Peterson. Dave Rubin has been on tour with Peterson and is a close friend. So how does Binswanger get his shot at Peterson without alienating Rubin? Well, first he finds something he can say that\u0026#39;s complimentary to Peterson (Peterson stood up against the compelled speech fascists). Then, without mentioning Peterson\u0026#39;s name, he goes after the Biblical stories (and, by implication, Peterson\u0026#39;s lectures on biblical stories). This kind of simplistic\/vulgar attack on Western culture (and that\u0026#39;s what it amounts to in the end) constitutes one of the least appetizing aspects of orthodox Objectivism, and it\u0026#39;s not all that different from some of the attacks we get on Western culture from the far left (although these radical left attack\u0026#39;s are based on very different rationalizations)."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6023633886139834636\/comments\/default\/3749117446492720122"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6023633886139834636\/comments\/default\/3749117446492720122"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/the-evolution-of-orthodox-objectivism.html?showComment=1552574996426#c3749117446492720122","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/the-evolution-of-orthodox-objectivism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6023633886139834636","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6023633886139834636","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/14\/2019 07:49:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4498923429413492806"},"published":{"$t":"2019-03-14T07:29:11.979-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-03-14T07:29:11.979-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"In fairness to Rand, she did her mature thinking w..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EIn fairness to Rand, she did her mature thinking when the idea of strong genetic influence on behavior or intelligence was seen as suspect, if not racist.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYes, Rand can be cut some slack because her philosophy was developed when the sciences of human nature were still in their infancy. However, since new discoveries have refuted Rand\u0026#39;s view, it would seem incumbent on anyone who considers themselves \u0026quot;rational\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;objective\u0026quot; to dismiss that part of Rand\u0026#39;s thought that clashes with this new body of knowledge. Because of ARI\u0026#39;s commitment to a \u0026quot;closed\u0026quot; interpretation of Rand\u0026#39;s thought, that places Brook and other Objectivists in a difficult position. Whatever Brook has said in the past about these issues (or believes privately), he knows well enough not to challenge a Gad Saad or Jordan Peterson on these issues. 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Sal..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I have listened to only the first 30 minutes.  Salmieri seems smart, but Biswanger is an Objectivist on auto-pilot.  He even had to mention the irrationality of the Abraham\/Isaac story.  Boy, we haven\u0026#39;t heard that before (Kant agreed with Binny on that lol)."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6023633886139834636\/comments\/default\/4471960747967599773"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6023633886139834636\/comments\/default\/4471960747967599773"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/the-evolution-of-orthodox-objectivism.html?showComment=1552519538226#c4471960747967599773","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/the-evolution-of-orthodox-objectivism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6023633886139834636","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6023633886139834636","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/13\/2019 04:25:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5849624547768509204"},"published":{"$t":"2019-03-13T15:51:10.604-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-03-13T15:51:10.604-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"In fairness to Rand, she did her mature thinking w..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In fairness to Rand, she did her mature thinking when the idea of strong genetic influence on behavior or intelligence was seen as suspect, if not racist.  Even today, any study that purports to show that genes aren\u0026#39;t significant makes headlines, whereas the steady flow of studies that indicate nature is much more important than nurture is ignored.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYaron Brook said a couple years ago that IQ tests are \u0026quot;bullshit\u0026quot; and that studies show that twins separated at birth and are adopted into different families indicate that family upbringing is more important than genes.  OK, Brook is an ignoramus, but would you get a different idea from reading the New York Times?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E-NP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6023633886139834636\/comments\/default\/5849624547768509204"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6023633886139834636\/comments\/default\/5849624547768509204"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/the-evolution-of-orthodox-objectivism.html?showComment=1552517470604#c5849624547768509204","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/the-evolution-of-orthodox-objectivism.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6023633886139834636","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6023633886139834636","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/13\/2019 03:51:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1089917016682920310"},"published":{"$t":"2019-03-11T19:29:03.589-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-03-11T19:29:03.589-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Very Nice And Interesting Post, thank you for shar..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Very Nice And Interesting Post, thank you for sharing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/famouspositivequotes.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EAnuj Somany\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/excellencequotes24.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EExcellence Quotes\u003C\/a\u003E - \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/trainhardquotes.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EGym Quotes\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/super-successful.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ESuccess Quotes\u003C\/a\u003E - \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/yorequotes.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EDecent Images\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thefuturequotes.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EFuture Quotes\u003C\/a\u003E - \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/anujsomany.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EAnuj Somany\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/greatquotesonlife.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Eاقوال وحكم قصيرة \u003C\/a\u003E - \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/hekmas.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Eحكمة اليوم\u003C\/a\u003E - \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/hekamz.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Eاقوال وحكم جميلة\u003C\/a\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/1089917016682920310"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/1089917016682920310"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html?showComment=1552357743589#c1089917016682920310","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Enthusiasm Quotes"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13788878293976552512"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UD-wjUntAhM\/Wf7o8urOnzI\/AAAAAAAABtI\/6X1kNzJzjsMlboNbDNKrIFGliZlA6hLxgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/FB_IMG_1508559622098.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5535847946098440215","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5535847946098440215","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1139387021"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/11\/2019 07:29:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5830000005453324697"},"published":{"$t":"2019-03-10T09:38:21.914-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-03-10T09:38:21.914-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Rand wasn\u0026#39;t a big reader, but I imagine she re..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Rand wasn\u0026#39;t a big reader, but I imagine she read some Kant.  I recall Barbara Branden saying that she and Leonard would write summaries of philosophers.  I bet the described them in the way that confirmed Rand\u0026#39;s preconceptions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/5830000005453324697"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/5830000005453324697"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html?showComment=1552235901914#c5830000005453324697","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5535847946098440215","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5535847946098440215","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/10\/2019 09:38:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4372509307183078960"},"published":{"$t":"2019-03-06T23:09:32.361-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-03-06T23:09:32.361-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;What was Ayn Rand Wrong About?\u0026quot;\n\nIt mig..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;What was Ayn Rand Wrong About?\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt might be more useful, or at least quicker, to discuss what she wasn\u0026#39;t wrong about."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/4372509307183078960"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/4372509307183078960"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html?showComment=1551942572361#c4372509307183078960","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Honk Rearden"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5125217680828703855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5125217680828703855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/06\/2019 11:09:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3394782385649149060"},"published":{"$t":"2019-02-26T11:24:11.785-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-02-26T11:24:11.785-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Does ANYBODY understand Kant?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Does ANYBODY understand Kant?"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/3394782385649149060"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/3394782385649149060"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html?showComment=1551209051785#c3394782385649149060","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5535847946098440215","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5535847946098440215","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"2\/26\/2019 11:24:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8326095049714905921"},"published":{"$t":"2019-02-24T12:20:17.185-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-02-24T12:20:17.185-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I believe Rand had a degree in philosophy, so it\u0026#..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EI believe Rand had a degree in philosophy, so it\u0026#39;s hard to imagine her never having been assigned Kant.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe majored in history, not philosophy, from a Soviet university (Petrograd State University). Given how negative Rand tended to be about the books she would attempt to read (like Mann\u0026#39;s \u0026quot;The Magic Mountain\u0026quot;), it\u0026#39;s hard to imagine her slogging her way through any of Kant\u0026#39;s critiques. But it hardly matters whether she did or not because, whether she read Kant or not, she clearly doesn\u0026#39;t understand Kant; her criticisms of Kant are hyperbolic and fail to demonstrate that she has any clue what Kant is trying to achieve in his admittedly painfully abstruse and overly-pedantic philosophy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/8326095049714905921"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/8326095049714905921"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html?showComment=1551039617185#c8326095049714905921","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5535847946098440215","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5535847946098440215","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"2\/24\/2019 12:20:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7126746660000221684"},"published":{"$t":"2019-02-23T05:49:14.003-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-02-23T05:49:14.003-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I believe Rand had a degree in philosophy, so it\u0026#..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I believe Rand had a degree in philosophy, so it\u0026#39;s hard to imagine her never having been assigned Kant."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/7126746660000221684"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/7126746660000221684"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html?showComment=1550929754003#c7126746660000221684","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5535847946098440215","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5535847946098440215","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"2\/23\/2019 05:49:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5837428299003878176"},"published":{"$t":"2019-02-19T16:00:54.137-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-02-19T16:00:54.137-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;To go as far as to say [Rand] didn\u0026#39;t rea..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;To go as far as to say [Rand] didn\u0026#39;t read any of these guys [like Kant] ... you don\u0026#39;t have the evidence for that. And you need evidence for it.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe burden of proof falls first on Milgram to provide evidence that Rand did read Kant. The burden of proof does not fall on anyone to give \u0026quot;evidence\u0026quot; that she never did. It\u0026#39;s much easier to come by evidence that Rand read Kant: find one copy of, say, Critique of Pure Reason among her belongings with margin notes in her hand.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Prove that Rand shouldn\u0026#39;t be taken at her word,\u0026quot; is what Milgram means. But we know Rand lied about a number of things. Since there are serious doubts about her having read Kant, the burden is on Milgram to show she did."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/5837428299003878176"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/5837428299003878176"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html?showComment=1550620854137#c5837428299003878176","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5535847946098440215","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5535847946098440215","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"2\/19\/2019 04:00:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6524903525818595407"},"published":{"$t":"2019-02-03T09:01:58.536-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-02-03T09:01:58.536-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Rand\u0026#39;s misreadings are not confined to authors..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Rand\u0026#39;s misreadings are not confined to authors she was predisposed against: you can also find it in her interpretations of authors she likes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne of the more egregious examples: her constantly repeated claim that Aristotle regarded fiction as more philosophical than history because it represents things \u0026quot;as they might be and ought to be\u0026quot;.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI was always puzzled by this claim - because Aristotle never says any such thing.  After all, Aristotle is writing about tragedy - and representing the actions of Oedipus or Medea as things that might be and ought to be is absurd on its face.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe answer can be found in the Jennifer Burns biography. Rand got this misquote from Albert Jay Nock\u0026#39;s book Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, where he writes:  \u0026quot;History, Aristotle says, represents things only as they are, while fiction represents them as they might be and ought to be.\u0026quot;  As Burns notes, \u0026quot;In her copy of the book, Rand marked this passage with six vertical lines.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn short, she is going by someone else\u0026#39;s misreading of a philosopher instead of doing the reading herself.  You can be pretty sure she did the same with Kant.  If she couldn\u0026#39;t be bothered to actually read Aristotle\u0026#39;s Poetics, I can\u0026#39;t see her working her way through the Critique of Pure Reason."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/6524903525818595407"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/6524903525818595407"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html?showComment=1549213318536#c6524903525818595407","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gordon Burkowski"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5535847946098440215","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5535847946098440215","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"2\/03\/2019 09:01:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3902897890996608819"},"published":{"$t":"2019-02-02T11:02:30.386-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-02-02T11:02:30.386-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"It\u0026#39;s not merely an issue of whether Rand read ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"It\u0026#39;s not merely an issue of whether Rand read serious material. Even when Rand did make an attempt to read such books, she often failed to understand them. If she was predisposed against an author, she would go out of her way to impose the worst possible interpretation (from an Objectivist POV) on his book. Meanwhile, she would not have the slightest clue what the author in question was trying to communicate. See, for example, her Marginalia to C. S. Lewis\u0026#39; \u003Ci\u003EAbolition of Man\u003C\/i\u003E:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.lewisiana.nl\/aynrand\/Ayn%20Rand%20on%20CS%20Lewis.pdf"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/3902897890996608819"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/3902897890996608819"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html?showComment=1549134150386#c3902897890996608819","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5535847946098440215","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5535847946098440215","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"2\/02\/2019 11:02:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4321806290249529006"},"published":{"$t":"2019-02-02T09:04:25.470-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-02-02T09:04:25.470-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"In 100 Voices, a collection of interviews with peo..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In 100 Voices, a collection of interviews with people who knew Rand, there are many references to her reading.  Most of it was genre fiction:  Agatha Christie, Donald Hamilton, Mickey Spillane.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI have the impression that her knowledge base was a mile wide but about an inch deep.  She picked up a lot by intensively questioning people who knew more on various subjects than she did:  Isabel Paterson for American constitutional history, Peikoff for philosophy, Branden for psychology, Greenspan for economics. I don\u0026#39;t think she actually did much serious reading.  In the Ayn Rand letter, she wrote a critique of John Rawls\u0026#39; book A Theory of Justice without bothering to read it:  she got her information from a New York Times review of the book.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI really have some suspicion that the Ayn Rand archives are so careful about allowing access to her letters and journals because a close examination of the evidence would probably show how thin her reading actually was."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/4321806290249529006"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/4321806290249529006"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html?showComment=1549127065470#c4321806290249529006","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gordon Burkowski"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5535847946098440215","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5535847946098440215","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"2\/02\/2019 09:04:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-237080877595277656"},"published":{"$t":"2019-01-21T05:38:07.345-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-01-21T05:38:07.345-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Gordon,\n\nThis is from my review of the Ayn Rand Co..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Gordon,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is from my review of the Ayn Rand Companion:\u003Cbr \/\u003E___________\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMilgram, unfortunately quotes Burns out of context when she reports Burns as saying that Branden’s biography is “marred by serious inaccuracies.” (page 87 in the Wylie edition). Burns goes on to say “too often Branden takes Rand’s stories about herself at face value, reporting as fact information contradicted by the historical record.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E___________\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis doesn\u0026#39;t look like a careful researcher, although it\u0026#39;s only one example.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/237080877595277656"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/237080877595277656"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html?showComment=1548077887345#c237080877595277656","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5535847946098440215","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5535847946098440215","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/21\/2019 05:38:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6741408343215125741"},"published":{"$t":"2019-01-20T19:03:02.345-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-01-20T19:03:02.345-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"How will Milgram handle the Blumenthals?  By not m..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow will Milgram handle the Blumenthals?  By not mentioning them, I expect.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrom 2004 to 2009, Robert Mayhew published four volumes of hagiographic essays on Rand\u0026#39;s novels.  Milgram has articles in all of them.  In these articles, she often makes use of a series of interviews with Rand conducted by Barbara Branden.  However, the interviews are footnoted as \u0026quot;Biographical Interviews: Ayn Rand Archives.\u0026quot;  Barbara Branden the unperson is never named.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe far more delicate question is how Milgram will handle Rand\u0026#39;s relationship with Nathaniel Branden.  ARI may no longer care much about The Affair - but I suspect that Peikoff very definitely does.  I could easily imagine him flying off half-cocked and pressuring the Ayn Rand Archives into denying her use of materials if he didn\u0026#39;t like what she was writing about the Brandens.  Remember the explusion of John McCaskey?  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Milgram considers herself a serious academic, I don\u0026#39;t think she\u0026#39;ll want to mimic James Valliant\u0026#39;s hit piece on the Brandens.  But that may be what the O\u0026#39;ist Old Guard expects her to do.  Which is why I continue to believe that she is waiting for Peikoff to die. . . \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/6741408343215125741"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/6741408343215125741"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html?showComment=1548039782345#c6741408343215125741","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gordon Burkowski"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5535847946098440215","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5535847946098440215","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/20\/2019 07:03:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4919601843790714888"},"published":{"$t":"2019-01-20T06:45:06.598-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-01-20T06:45:06.598-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"It\u0026#39;s interesting that the most negative things..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"It\u0026#39;s interesting that the most negative things said about Rand come from Alan Blumenthal and his wife (the hectoring which caused them to break with her, among other things).  It will be interesting to see how Milgram handles this. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENP "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/4919601843790714888"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/4919601843790714888"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html?showComment=1547995506598#c4919601843790714888","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5535847946098440215","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5535847946098440215","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/20\/2019 06:45:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3889130626575455971"},"published":{"$t":"2019-01-13T10:22:08.787-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-01-13T10:22:08.787-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Also Rand just doesn\u0026#39;t strike me as a learned ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Also Rand just doesn\u0026#39;t strike me as a learned person in general, and especially not well read in philosophy. Could she have given a competent lecture on a classic work of philosophy, like, say, Plato\u0026#39;s \u003Ci\u003ERepublic\u003C\/i\u003E, which showed that she had read the text, she understood Plato\u0026#39;s arguments and could explain them clearly, and also reveal that she had read and understood the standard scholarly literature about this dialogue to help in its interpretation? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI just can\u0026#39;t see her doing that, though her older contemporary Bertrand Russell could. 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"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/1320253885437091947"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/1320253885437091947"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html?showComment=1547403193489#c1320253885437091947","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Albionic American"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5535847946098440215","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5535847946098440215","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/13\/2019 10:13:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6642453263111911286"},"published":{"$t":"2019-01-11T04:36:29.043-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-01-11T04:36:29.043-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The ARI seems focused on spreading Rand\u0026#39;s phil..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The ARI seems focused on spreading Rand\u0026#39;s philosophy mostly as how it applies (or how they think it applies) to the politics of the day. I don\u0026#39;t think the Milgram bio will have much of an effect one way or the other.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs people who knew Rand retire I think the details of Rand\u0026#39;s life will become less important. And if you look it the reaction to the Burns and Heller bios, I didn\u0026#39;t hear people say they were all a pack of lies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E-NP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/6642453263111911286"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/6642453263111911286"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html?showComment=1547210189043#c6642453263111911286","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5535847946098440215","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5535847946098440215","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/11\/2019 04:36:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4996575532892386259"},"published":{"$t":"2019-01-10T17:47:22.492-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-01-10T17:47:22.492-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I\u0026#39;d doubt that Milgram is waiting for Peikoff ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I\u0026#39;d doubt that Milgram is waiting for Peikoff to die. I doubt that Peikoff is of any relevance any more. Like King Lear, he\u0026#39;s too old to be a threat to anyone. Yaron Brook is in charge now of the ARI-centered brand of Objectivism, and he\u0026#39;s trying to move Objectivism forward and make it more relevant to the real world. That means getting beyond the old feuds of the past and trying to engage with the broader the world. It\u0026#39;s the reason why Brook is almost desperate to be considered part of the Intellectual Dark Web, and is under the (false) assumption that if only he could have long-form conversations with Sam Harris, Ben Shapiro, Joe Rogan et al that  that\u0026#39;s going to somehow help spread Objectivist ideas. Now I can\u0026#39;t imagine earlier Objectivists like Peikoff, Schwartz, Binswanger, let alone Rand herself, wanting to be part of the IDW. At the bottom of it all I suspect Brook is just a talented fund raiser trying to convince those giving money to ARI that he and people he\u0026#39;s hired to run the institute are actually doing something to spread Objectivism beyond giving away free books."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/4996575532892386259"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/4996575532892386259"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html?showComment=1547171242492#c4996575532892386259","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5535847946098440215","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5535847946098440215","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/10\/2019 05:47:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3880101494712489040"},"published":{"$t":"2019-01-09T04:32:46.398-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-01-09T04:32:46.398-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Gordon suggested that the bio will come out when P..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Gordon suggested that the bio will come out when Peikoff dies.  I don\u0026#39;t know what her arrangement is with the archives.  I think Burns said Peikoff had to sign off on allowing her to use materials from the archives.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/3880101494712489040"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/3880101494712489040"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html?showComment=1547037166398#c3880101494712489040","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5535847946098440215","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5535847946098440215","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/09\/2019 04:32:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4085471372314450228"},"published":{"$t":"2019-01-08T04:36:04.030-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-01-08T04:36:04.030-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"A while ago I asked the archives if the oral histo..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"A while ago I asked the archives if the oral history project interviewed the Blumenthals and the Holzers.  I was told no.  I wonder if Milgram has sought to use the interviews that Barbara Branden, Jennifer Burns and Anne Heller too.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/4085471372314450228"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/4085471372314450228"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html?showComment=1546950964030#c4085471372314450228","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5535847946098440215","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5535847946098440215","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/08\/2019 04:36:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2848896502846964600"},"published":{"$t":"2019-01-07T09:16:16.132-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-01-07T09:16:16.132-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"re Milgram:\n\nI expect that she\u0026#39;s waiting for P..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003Ere Milgram:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI expect that she\u0026#39;s waiting for Peikoff to die. . ."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7877158031187592416\/comments\/default\/2848896502846964600"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7877158031187592416\/comments\/default\/2848896502846964600"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/10\/mccaskey-rand-doesnt-follow.html?showComment=1546881376132#c2848896502846964600","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gordon Burkowski"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/10\/mccaskey-rand-doesnt-follow.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7877158031187592416","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7877158031187592416","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/07\/2019 09:16:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3873074415968336452"},"published":{"$t":"2019-01-07T06:45:01.469-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-01-07T06:45:01.469-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Yes, the interview is rather defensive. Milgram sp..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Yes, the interview is rather defensive. Milgram spends a great deal of the interview trying to justify why it\u0026#39;s taking her so long to finish the biography. She\u0026#39;s insisting on how she\u0026#39;s being extra zealous about sources, and not accepting anything that isn\u0026#39;t multiple sourced; and in this we can detect a kind of strategy to deal with the problematic aspects of Rand\u0026#39;s life. She\u0026#39;ll simply claim that most of the negative stuff doesn\u0026#39;t have multiple sources and therefore this will give her license to ignore it. But she can\u0026#39;t ignore claims about Rand\u0026#39;s anger, because even Peikoff has admitted that Rand could get angry and that it wasn\u0026#39;t always 100% fair when she did so. So we find Milgram engaged in damage control. She insists Rand\u0026#39;s anger was based on \u0026quot;justice,\u0026quot; but this, far from excusing Rand, only makes Rand\u0026#39;s temper tantrums even more disturbing. The problem is, if \u0026quot;justice\u0026quot; necessitated everyone to be angry like Rand, society would break apart and we\u0026#39;d be at each other\u0026#39;s throats like lions and tigers. Hardly anyone would want to live in that kind of social order.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/3873074415968336452"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/3873074415968336452"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html?showComment=1546872301469#c3873074415968336452","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5535847946098440215","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5535847946098440215","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/07\/2019 06:45:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3962539207354543600"},"published":{"$t":"2019-01-06T14:58:06.259-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-01-06T14:58:06.259-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Greg:\n\nI only skimmed the interview, but it seems ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Greg:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI only skimmed the interview, but it seems quite defensive, not just on Kant but:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E1. 100 Voices.  There is reason to suspect the editing.  I spoke to a couple people who said what they signed off on was less text than what was printed in the book.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E2. Rand\u0026#39;s anger.  We have been told that this was Rand\u0026#39;s one humanizing flaw, and Milgram agrees that Rand\u0026#39; anger could be a little over the tip.  Yet she emphasizes that it was often anger at people who betrayed their \u0026quot;word\u0026quot; to Rand.  Are we going to get some score settling once this book comes out?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E-Neil P."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/3962539207354543600"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5535847946098440215\/comments\/default\/3962539207354543600"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html?showComment=1546815486259#c3962539207354543600","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/did-rand-read-kant.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5535847946098440215","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5535847946098440215","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/06\/2019 02:58:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3021276804650436914"},"published":{"$t":"2019-01-06T06:07:40.167-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-01-06T06:07:40.167-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Here is a recent interview with soon to be (one of..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Here is a recent interview with soon to be (one of these years, decades) biographer of Ayn Rand, Shoshana Milgram:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/objectivismefr.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/ShoshanaMilgramInterview.pdf\u003Cbr \/\u003E-NP\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7877158031187592416\/comments\/default\/3021276804650436914"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7877158031187592416\/comments\/default\/3021276804650436914"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/10\/mccaskey-rand-doesnt-follow.html?showComment=1546783660167#c3021276804650436914","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/10\/mccaskey-rand-doesnt-follow.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7877158031187592416","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7877158031187592416","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/06\/2019 06:07:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-9202360807147788372"},"published":{"$t":"2019-01-03T21:10:02.997-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-01-03T21:10:02.997-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Thanks again for this post."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Thanks again for this post."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7877158031187592416\/comments\/default\/9202360807147788372"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7877158031187592416\/comments\/default\/9202360807147788372"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/10\/mccaskey-rand-doesnt-follow.html?showComment=1546578602997#c9202360807147788372","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Clipping Path Service"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.clippingpathquick.com\/"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/10\/mccaskey-rand-doesnt-follow.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7877158031187592416","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7877158031187592416","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/03\/2019 09:10:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4055705197019869801"},"published":{"$t":"2019-01-02T17:49:13.863-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-01-02T17:49:13.863-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Glad to be of service, Dan. What in some respects ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Glad to be of service, Dan. What in some respects we\u0026#39;ve done here is merely provide a way out of the Randian bunny hole that people — usually very young people — fall into. Assuming they wish to get out of the Randian bunny hole, we drop them a conceptual rope so they can climb out. Once they\u0026#39;re out of the Randian matrix, they can figure things out on their own."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7877158031187592416\/comments\/default\/4055705197019869801"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7877158031187592416\/comments\/default\/4055705197019869801"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/10\/mccaskey-rand-doesnt-follow.html?showComment=1546480153863#c4055705197019869801","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/10\/mccaskey-rand-doesnt-follow.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7877158031187592416","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7877158031187592416","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"1\/02\/2019 05:49:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3454632966806163925"},"published":{"$t":"2018-12-27T13:28:13.429-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-12-27T13:28:13.429-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Hi Dan, welcome to the club!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Hi Dan, welcome to the 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Since I ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Yet another great post from Greg Nyquist. Since I don\u0026#39;t believe I\u0026#39;ve publicly delcared this elsewhere, I owe a lot of credit to ARCHN for helping me overcome the stifling poison of Oist philosophy and culture after almost 20 years of involvement. On my birthday over three years ago, I spent about 15 hours across two days pouring over ARCHN blog, and when I was done I was no longer and Objectivist. Nor will I ever go back. It will take me many more years and much effort to unburden my mind of all the indoctrination I subjected myself to beginning at age 16 (if I can ever do it at all). Another benefit of ARCHN: I don\u0026#39;t feel the need to discredit Oism for the next generation, since Nyquist has already done such a thorough job of it here. Well done Mr. Nyquist, and many thanks!"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7877158031187592416\/comments\/default\/3807045687295557746"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7877158031187592416\/comments\/default\/3807045687295557746"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/10\/mccaskey-rand-doesnt-follow.html?showComment=1545593223084#c3807045687295557746","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Dan Edge"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12565226229650988563"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"30","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_3GHDh-vUFiE\/SP3B6Y0BCmI\/AAAAAAAAAHI\/qUIVhuzGQEM\/S220-s85\/Dan+Head+Small.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/10\/mccaskey-rand-doesnt-follow.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7877158031187592416","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7877158031187592416","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-124199748"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"12\/23\/2018 11:27:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7673037628016110933"},"published":{"$t":"2018-11-29T09:28:29.390-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-11-29T09:28:29.390-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;Some feeback, I\u0026#39;m trying to cotton to th..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;Some feeback, I\u0026#39;m trying to cotton to the \u0026#39;was wrong about\u0026#39; formulation, the \u0026#39;technical errors\u0026#39; formulation, when it comes to issues like foundationalism. I can\u0026#39;t manage it.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI think that\u0026#39;s because you\u0026#39;re confusing your own idea of what foundationalism is with the line that Nyquist actually wrote, i.e., the NEED to validate man\u0026#39;s knowledge.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is a difference between being able to justify a belief and being required to justify a belief. Most people can function perfectly well without justifying what they know to a philosophical certainty, and inasmuch as Rand might have felt such justification was critical and necessary, she was wrong."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/7673037628016110933"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/7673037628016110933"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html?showComment=1543512509390#c7673037628016110933","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5125217680828703855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5125217680828703855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11\/29\/2018 09:28:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-600578687204367424"},"published":{"$t":"2018-11-26T22:35:18.989-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-11-26T22:35:18.989-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Turns out Peterson is a New World Order kind of gu..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Turns out Peterson is a New World Order kind of guy, according to this new book:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Jordanetics: A Journey Into the Mind of Humanity\u0026#39;s Greatest Thinker\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003Eby Vox Day, introduction by Milo Yiannopoulos\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can get it online from the usual outlets."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6755590575051424675\/comments\/default\/600578687204367424"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6755590575051424675\/comments\/default\/600578687204367424"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/peterson-at-ocon-quick-and-dirty-review.html?showComment=1543300518989#c600578687204367424","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/peterson-at-ocon-quick-and-dirty-review.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6755590575051424675","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6755590575051424675","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11\/26\/2018 10:35:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4119898448248375139"},"published":{"$t":"2018-11-26T22:23:38.424-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-11-26T22:23:38.424-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Ayn Rand was basically a linguistic analyst, then...."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Ayn Rand was basically a linguistic analyst, then. \u0026quot;What do you mean?\u0026quot; is the first question. Actually the only question.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a field as rationalistic and chaotic as philosophy actually is, clearing away that junk by first defining your terms is a good procedure. It clears the way for a fruitful discussion. But it doesn\u0026#39;t constitute that discussion. It is a necessary but not sufficient condition for a discussion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy contrast, nobody contests basic definitions in car repair. The mechanic and you know what a \u0026quot;tire\u0026quot; is, and if there\u0026#39;s some part of your car that you aren\u0026#39;t very familiar with, the mechanic has a ready explanation of it for you. But philosophy in general is, frankly, such a pile of rationalism that an immense amount time is usually spent just arguing terms and trying to ascertain what your interlocutor means. For proof of this, you can look at many comments on posts here.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt\u0026#39;s a bait and switch to make such linguistic analysis (or whatever term you want to use to describe it) the end-all of philosophy. While often a necessary preliminary to a debate, it doesn\u0026#39;t constitute that debate, nor is it a substitute for that debate; and it\u0026#39;s not actually doing philosophy. It\u0026#39;s like a warm-up without the exercise that is supposed to follow the warm-up. It\u0026#39;s akin to vamping in music without ever getting around to playing the piece.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENor is the Randian method effective in even that much. Real clarification would long ago have established the fact that her vision of the proper role of government is a white elephant."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7877158031187592416\/comments\/default\/4119898448248375139"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7877158031187592416\/comments\/default\/4119898448248375139"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/10\/mccaskey-rand-doesnt-follow.html?showComment=1543299818424#c4119898448248375139","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/10\/mccaskey-rand-doesnt-follow.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7877158031187592416","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7877158031187592416","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11\/26\/2018 10:23:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2361314393147057485"},"published":{"$t":"2018-11-19T18:14:54.261-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-11-19T18:14:54.261-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The last couple years in particular have found ARI..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The last couple years in particular have found ARI and Rubin sharing a stage. It certainly was a desire for exposure that motivated these events. ARI needs eyes, and they are not confident enough of their own draw power to make any loud public statements, or allow their intellectuals to make any on their own, without rigorous editing.\u003Cbr \/\u003EI gather you all aren’t fans of ARI, (or objectivism, I  only stumbled in here a few minutes ago) but Tew is actually largely right about Peterson - the guy’s philosophy is consistently self-reflective in it’s focus on life as suffering, created by one’s failures in he face of the Order\/Chaos myth. It is therefore not surprising that many Objectivists may be drawn to this, as they struggle to hold true to the Hero Myth of Roark or Galt - I think Peterson helps explain this for them, as an ironic Christ figure... 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Peterson, like Objectivists, is a faith based, ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"J. Peterson, like Objectivists, is a faith based, not an empirical thinker, but his hought has an obvious mystical, \u0026quot;intuitive\u0026quot; side."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6051127118501302243\/comments\/default\/8360762106650408533"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6051127118501302243\/comments\/default\/8360762106650408533"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/jordan-peterson-is-going-to-ocon.html?showComment=1542390268091#c8360762106650408533","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/jordan-peterson-is-going-to-ocon.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6051127118501302243","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6051127118501302243","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11\/16\/2018 09:44:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2729406895653618554"},"published":{"$t":"2018-11-01T00:56:14.695-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-11-01T00:56:14.695-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"It’s arduous to find educated people on this subje..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"It’s arduous to find educated people on this subject, however you sound like you realize what you’re talking about! Thanks \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/onlinecasino2018.us.org\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Ecasino slots\u003C\/a\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1467618109008150499\/comments\/default\/2729406895653618554"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1467618109008150499\/comments\/default\/2729406895653618554"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/objectivism-autopsy-part-4.html?showComment=1541058974695#c2729406895653618554","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"jorgeefrrr828"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14360506672119394010"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/objectivism-autopsy-part-4.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1467618109008150499","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1467618109008150499","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1000888054"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11\/01\/2018 12:56:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4013899059166690743"},"published":{"$t":"2018-11-01T00:56:08.388-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-11-01T00:56:08.388-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026#39;On the technical side of things, Rand was wro..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026#39;On the technical side of things, Rand was wrong about (1) the need to validate man’s knowledge—i.e., foundationalism; ... If we wished to really get into the philosophical weeds, we could probably ferret out even more technical errors, ..\u0026#39;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome feeback, I\u0026#39;m trying to cotton to the \u0026#39;was wrong about\u0026#39; formulation, the \u0026#39;technical errors\u0026#39; formulation, when it comes to issues like foundationalism. I can\u0026#39;t manage it. I find the whole issue to be abstract and, inevitably, informally stated. I would not rush to pronounce Foundationalist Theories of Epistemic Justification to be \u0026#39;wrong\u0026#39;, because I am not a callow student. Not *that* callow. To go into this in a bit more depth, I guess that surely, a little reflection suggests that the vast majority of the propositions we know or justifiably believe have that status only because we know or justifiably believe other propositions. Thus, I justifiably believe that our garbage will get picked up tomorrow, because I justifiably believe that tomorrow is Tuesday and that our garbage gets picked up every Tuesday; and I justifiably believe that there is going to be at least some rain in the next week, because I justifiably believe that the forecast calls for a good deal of rain, and forecasts are almost always right when it comes to similar short-term forecasts in this area. And okay, many interesting and difficult questions can be raised, here. The idea is, that a foundational or noninferentially justified belief is one that does not depend on any other beliefs for its justification.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI mean, if you have it all figured out in your mind, then that\u0026#39;s great, hypothetically, but at least, let\u0026#39;s sound like we are aware that historically, foundationalism was very widely, almost universally accepted. If you are aware of the long history of interpretation and appropriation of Aristotelian texts and themes—spanning over two millennia and comprising philosophers working within a variety of religious and secular traditions—then fine, dismiss it all with your brilliant answers. But can I let you dismiss it all implicitly, with a wave of the hand? I cannot. Because, I know that Aristotle’s influence is difficult to overestimate. I know that a quick search of the present Encyclopedia turns up more citations to ‘Aristotle’ and ‘Aristotelianism’ than to any other philosopher or philosophical movement. Fine, so classical foundationalism has come under considerable attack in the last few decades. But it is also was once the received view. I take myself to be willing to consider the most prominent objections that target the classical view of foundational beliefs. But, I think this merits more than a wave of the hand. If it makes any sense at all to claim that Ayn Rand was wrong on this issue, then she\u0026#39;s in great company.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow am I even supposed to guess, the primary dissatisfaction with classical foundationalism?"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/4013899059166690743"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/4013899059166690743"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html?showComment=1541058968388#c4013899059166690743","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Danny"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/11915977609430813824"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5125217680828703855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5125217680828703855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1225359207"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11\/01\/2018 12:56:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4933648919654644055"},"published":{"$t":"2018-10-31T22:36:29.911-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-10-31T22:36:29.911-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026#39;The phrase \u0026quot;laissez-faire,\u0026quot; so impo..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":" \u0026#39;The phrase \u0026quot;laissez-faire,\u0026quot; so important to the Rand\u0026#39;s political philosophy, is a slogan rather than a coherent policy of political economy.\u0026#39;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESurely we all stipulate, at least, that the policy of laissez-faire received strong support in classical economics as it developed in Great Britain under the influence of Adam Smith. And that belief in laissez-faire was a popular view during the 19th century. And, John Stuart Mill was responsible for bringing this philosophy into popular economic usage in his Principles of Political Economy (1848), in which he set forth the arguments for and against government activity in economic affairs. I might admit that the philosophy’s popularity reached its peak around 1870. But that doesn\u0026#39;t make it \u0026#39;a slogan rather than a coherent policy of political economy\u0026#39;. I think I could muster patience, at least, with an argument that it is insufficient as a guiding philosophy, though I\u0026#39;d insist that the general philosophy still has its advocates. By \u0026#39;the general philosophy\u0026#39;, I mean, the classical liberal (and modern libertarian) doctrine that the economic affairs of society are best guided by the free and autonomous decisions of individuals in the marketplace, to the near exclusion of government interference in economic matters. And that is, the doctrine that government should almost always leave people alone and let them do as they please, so long as they respect the personal and property rights of others. Now that\u0026#39;s just off the cuff, and I could do better. Perhaps I have ever in my life, met anybody who knows less than this, off the cuff, about the phrase \u0026quot;laissez-faire\u0026quot;, but they don\u0026#39;t blog about it."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/116321220608098481\/comments\/default\/4933648919654644055"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/116321220608098481\/comments\/default\/4933648919654644055"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/is-objectivism-dangerous.html?showComment=1541050589911#c4933648919654644055","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Danny"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/11915977609430813824"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/is-objectivism-dangerous.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-116321220608098481","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/116321220608098481","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1225359207"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10\/31\/2018 10:36:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-534408679571057054"},"published":{"$t":"2018-10-30T12:33:13.675-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-10-30T12:33:13.675-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"As a matter of emphasis, you can get into these th..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"As a matter of emphasis, you can get into these three issues:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E1. vagueness in terms\u003Cbr \/\u003E2. lack of precision in definitions\u003Cbr \/\u003E3. improper concept formation\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt counts, I think, as a real epoch-making discovery that all of these matters turn out to be fantastically huge complex fascinating matters, if you let them. One can come to see most philosophy, and indeed, one can come to see \u0026#39;philosophy\u0026#39;, whether Marx or whathaveyou, as a bunch of abstractions being tossed around informally. Rand is hoist by her own petard, of course, when she brings up logic, but she\u0026#39;s in good company. 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She was asked whether attempting to lead a wholly rational life would lead to a “juiceless, joyless existence”.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe responded by claiming – given her definition of reason – that such a claim was not only false but literally unintelligible.  So much for Motivational Psychology."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7877158031187592416\/comments\/default\/3317224488242309243"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7877158031187592416\/comments\/default\/3317224488242309243"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/10\/mccaskey-rand-doesnt-follow.html?showComment=1540060065156#c3317224488242309243","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gordon Burkowski"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/10\/mccaskey-rand-doesnt-follow.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7877158031187592416","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7877158031187592416","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10\/20\/2018 11:27:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3527658752638018558"},"published":{"$t":"2018-10-16T06:16:12.842-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-10-16T06:16:12.842-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I myself held fairly conservative social and econo..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003E I myself held fairly conservative social and economic views on the eve of the 2009 crash - now I am a socialist - my baseline personality has not changed. Ideas reflect the material changes at the base of society.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is an error here that needs to be addressed. Personality is the number one measurable predictor of ideological allegiance, but that doesn\u0026#39;t mean everybody\u0026#39;s ideology is reflection of their personality. There are all kinds of factors involved, and there exist outliers and exceptions --- people\u0026#39;s who\u0026#39;s personality doesn\u0026#39;t play a large role in their ideological affiliation. But the point is: the fact that their are outliers and exceptions does not refute the general fact that personality is the number one measurable predictor of ideological allegiance."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/3527658752638018558"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/3527658752638018558"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1539695772842#c3527658752638018558","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10\/16\/2018 06:16:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-474706590725102702"},"published":{"$t":"2018-10-11T17:37:02.211-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-10-11T17:37:02.211-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"There was a plan in the 1950s, Operation Vulture I..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"There was a plan in the 1950s, Operation Vulture I believe it was called, to use nuclear weapons in Southeast Asia.  My understanding is that it was Vice President Nixon who put a stop to it."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1467618109008150499\/comments\/default\/474706590725102702"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1467618109008150499\/comments\/default\/474706590725102702"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/objectivism-autopsy-part-4.html?showComment=1539304622211#c474706590725102702","title":""},{"rel":"related","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1467618109008150499\/comments\/default\/6480588922031456535"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Eric"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07366389218759511353"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/objectivism-autopsy-part-4.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1467618109008150499","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1467618109008150499","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1529032317"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10\/11\/2018 05:37:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7619901408668099538"},"published":{"$t":"2018-10-08T09:48:22.373-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-10-08T09:48:22.373-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Greg your analysis of the Left and modern Marxism ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Greg your analysis of the Left and modern Marxism is deeply flawed. Post-modernism and identity politics was a reaction to the collapse of all socialist political movements (be they western or eastern versions) as a credible political force in the 1980s when the neo-liberal capitalist model emerged and seemed unassailable. It is not surprising that during the next 30 years most left-leaning activists essentially surrendered to neo-liberal logic and devoted themselves to winning reforms on the margin. But as any good Marxist dialectician will tell you things are constantly in motion and change. The profitability of neo-liberalism was based upon reducing labour costs by a combination of union-busting, new technology, moving to places like China and brining in cheaper migrant labour from the global south. But in doing this the capitalist effectively killed his market as his now impoverished workers didn\u0026#39;t earn enough to buy his products. This contradiction was resolved by extending credit to workers to keep them buying his products at the same rate and kicking the debt-time bomb up the road until the entire financial system almost came crashing down in 2009. The massive debts of the Banks was transferred to the State in an eye-watering bailout and the state decided to pass the burden onto the working class through a series of austerity cuts. The result is a decade of stagnant or declining wages, which many workers are starting to conclude is the new normal and are beginning to once again organise collectively on a socialist platform. Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn were unimaginable 4 years ago, yet both have come very close to political power. I myself held fairly conservative social and economic views on the eve of the 2009 crash - now I am a socialist - my baseline personality has not changed. Ideas reflect the material changes at the base of society."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/7619901408668099538"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/7619901408668099538"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1539017302373#c7619901408668099538","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10\/08\/2018 09:48:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179091324033831292"},"published":{"$t":"2018-10-07T19:23:57.352-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-10-07T19:23:57.352-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Most of the comments on this thread go back to Ann..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Most of the comments on this thread go back to Anna W.\u0026#39;s post, which offers the magnanimous observation:  “If you feel frustrated by your lack of progress in understanding Objectivism, don\u0026#39;t blame yourself. . .”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat I find most striking about that is the assumption that anyone who has a problem with Objectivism simply hasn\u0026#39;t explored this philosophy with sufficient deepness.   The many recovering Objectivists who have posted to this blog over the years will view this assumption with a weary smile.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere are some pretty good critiques of the more technical aspects of Rand\u0026#39;s philosophy:  her attempt to ground her ethics in something that looks like biology is especially vulnerable, as is the Objectivist treatment of free will.  But most people who become enthusiastic about her philosophy don\u0026#39;t abandon it because of such analyses.  Rather, they discard it one area at a time - until the day comes when there is nothing left to discard.  Like peeling layers off an onion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe first layer of the onion to go is often in the area of art, where Rand\u0026#39;s attempt to divide all art into “naturalism” and “romanticism”  leads rapidly to especially absurd consequences and aesthetic choices.  (Who needs Rembrandt, Shakespeare, Tolstoy or Beethoven anyway?)  Or for a history buff, it may lie in the notion that Immanuel Kant\u0026#39;s teachings led to the holocaust.  Or a Physicist who\u0026#39;s checked out their bizarre views on the sciences.  And if they become interested in anthropology, they will soon realize that on Objectivist premises, no such area of study is even possible.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt a certain point comes the question:  if this philosophy is so brilliant, why does it lead to conclusions like this?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPeople don\u0026#39;t abandon Objectivism because they haven\u0026#39;t studied it closely enough.  They do so when they come to realize how fundamentally contemptuous the whole system is of genuine empirical testing and investigation – in spite of all the pious references to “facts of reality” (as if there were any other kind of facts).  But making that discovery takes time.  It may even take more than Ms. W\u0026#39;s 10 years. . ."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/5179091324033831292"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/5179091324033831292"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html?showComment=1538965437352#c5179091324033831292","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gordon Burkowski"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5125217680828703855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5125217680828703855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10\/07\/2018 07:23:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1156855135617062631"},"published":{"$t":"2018-09-18T09:17:55.174-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-09-18T09:17:55.174-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Very Nice And Interesting Post, thank you for shar..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Very Nice And Interesting Post, thank you for sharing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/famouspositivequotes.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EInspirational Quotes\u003C\/a\u003E - \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/trainhardquotes.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EGym Quotes\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/quotes-words.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EBest Quotes\u003C\/a\u003E - \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/super-successful.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ESuccess Quotes\u003C\/a\u003E - \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.xyore.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EXyore\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/positivefamousquotes.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EPositive Life Quotes\u003C\/a\u003E - \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/yorequotes.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EImage Bank\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thefuturequotes.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003EThe Future Quotes\u003C\/a\u003E - \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/hekmas.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Eحكمة اليوم\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/hekmas.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Eحكم عن الحياة\u003C\/a\u003E - \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/greatquotesonlife.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Eكلام جميل\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/9106190778232594288\/comments\/default\/1156855135617062631"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/9106190778232594288\/comments\/default\/1156855135617062631"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/fun-holiday-reading.html?showComment=1537287475174#c1156855135617062631","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Enthusiasm Quotes"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13788878293976552512"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UD-wjUntAhM\/Wf7o8urOnzI\/AAAAAAAABtI\/6X1kNzJzjsMlboNbDNKrIFGliZlA6hLxgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/FB_IMG_1508559622098.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/fun-holiday-reading.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-9106190778232594288","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/9106190778232594288","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1139387021"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/18\/2018 09:17:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6007604427292869813"},"published":{"$t":"2018-09-16T15:25:02.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-09-16T15:25:02.000-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"It worked - for some. The comments sections on thi..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"It worked - for some. The comments sections on this very blog are full of entries by people who have claimed to follow Objectivism and yet are essentially nonentities outside of Objectivist communities. If every last person who picked up Atlas Shrugged and was smitten with its ideals was shown to be a giant in their field, there might be more reason to give more credit to the philosophy. Like Dianetics, there\u0026#39;s a lot of errant nonsense embedded in the philosophy that can be dismissed, and many successful people do so, taking what seems useful and ignoring the rest.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then some practitioners follow the precepts closely and don\u0026#39;t flourish, regardless. Steve Ditko, who recently passed away, is something of an example. As the co-creator of Spider-Man and a number of other super-heroes, one might think he would have been enormously successful, but although his name is well known in comics circles, he\u0026#39;s nowhere near as famous as Stan Lee, the other co-creator of Spider-Man. As near as I can tell, he lived his last years as a recluse, alone. He refused interviews, mostly, and it\u0026#39;s said that he actually refused to accept royalty payments for his work on Spider-Man in the past due to his regarding Marvel Comics as an unethical entity in some way. (I forget the details, and am dredging all this up mostly from memory, but I\u0026#39;m sure there\u0026#39;s accounts of all it online if one cares to look.) All this stems from Ditko\u0026#39;s adherence to Objectivism and a stark black-or-white outlook on life (Look up \u0026quot;Mr. A\u0026quot; for an example of some of Ditko\u0026#39;s most direct expression of his philosophy in superhero form), and so in his case, at least, Objectivism stunted his success, at least in an economic\/power sense. Only Ditko would know if he found his own life satisfactorily lived by other standards."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/6007604427292869813"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/6007604427292869813"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html?showComment=1537136702000#c6007604427292869813","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Jzero"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5125217680828703855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5125217680828703855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/16\/2018 03:25:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4360043978822435203"},"published":{"$t":"2018-09-15T21:39:06.451-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-09-15T21:39:06.451-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Fair points about Greenspan.\n\nHowever, you cannot ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Fair points about Greenspan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHowever, you cannot deny my other examples. Certain individuals have made a very nice living out of Objectivism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA sampling: http:\/\/ariwatch.com\/TheObjectivistGravyTrain.htm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo you see, Objectivism--like Dianetics--is \u0026quot;a philosophy for living on earth.\u0026quot; One of many. It worked.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/4360043978822435203"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/4360043978822435203"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html?showComment=1537072746451#c4360043978822435203","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anon \"devil's advocate\""},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5125217680828703855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5125217680828703855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/15\/2018 09:39:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4339199860394046925"},"published":{"$t":"2018-09-13T00:49:55.831-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-09-13T00:49:55.831-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Experts and patriots are enraged:\n\nThe crazies sec..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Experts and patriots are enraged:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe crazies secretly maneuvered more wealth into their pockets\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the last year, than they did in the last 185 years!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeaning the top 1% now own as much wealth as half the world\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust 5 years ago the filthy rich were 388.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs of January 2016 there’s only 62 people who own\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHALF the world!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilethemesworld.com\/2018\/09\/05\/cbs-best-financial-survival-product\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u0026gt;\u0026gt;Watch shocking video\u0026lt;\u0026lt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo living soul can spend that much money in a lifetime…\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd when people sits on money,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe economy stalls.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that’s how it all begins:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat’s coming in the next 6 months or less\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWill give a new definition to the infamous “economic crisis”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilethemesworld.com\/2018\/09\/05\/cbs-best-financial-survival-product\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u0026gt;\u0026gt;Access U.S. Dollar Exposed!\u0026lt;\u0026lt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAre you prepared to be broke…\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHomeless…\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJobless…\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHUNGRY?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr can you turn the game around:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilethemesworld.com\/2018\/09\/05\/cbs-best-financial-survival-product\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E\u0026gt;\u0026gt;Profit from the dollar crisis: watch video\u0026lt;\u0026lt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E[Mr Mark Fidelman]"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4393764557973488250\/comments\/default\/4339199860394046925"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/4393764557973488250\/comments\/default\/4339199860394046925"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/ayn-rands-insistence-on-separation-of.html?showComment=1536824995831#c4339199860394046925","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Adele"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/11987094361379594499"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/ayn-rands-insistence-on-separation-of.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4393764557973488250","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/4393764557973488250","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-950989220"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/13\/2018 12:49:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-133075733818373939"},"published":{"$t":"2018-09-09T19:57:40.505-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-09-09T19:57:40.505-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Clearly Greenspan ended up where he did because of..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EClearly Greenspan ended up where he did because of the influence that Rand\u0026#39;s ideas exercised on him; and clearly it was a position of great power.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI don\u0026#39;t think it is so clearly obvious that Rand\u0026#39;s ideas helped Greenspan attain a position of power. Greenspan developed short term economic prediction models that were highly accurate and that made him a candidate for high advisory positions, first in Nixon\u0026#39;s Presidential campaign, and later in President Ford\u0026#39;s administration. No one hired him because of his connection to Rand or supposed espousal of Rand\u0026#39;s ideas. If he tried to conduct himself in the manner of an uncompromising Objectivist his career would\u0026#39;ve gone nowhere. But he chose to play the political game and get along with his colleagues. He gained his position as Fed chairman for his work saving Social Security. Fed chairman is sometimes regarded as the second most powerful person in the world, but this is likely an exaggeration. Technically, the fed chairman has no more voting power than other members of the board. In short, Greenspan had to play along to get along. He didn\u0026#39;t have the power to implement an Objectivist monetary policy (whatever that might be). \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGreenspan, for all the alleged power and influence he held, was hemmed in by the institutional forces that prevail in the financial markets. Remember his \u0026quot;irrational exuberance\u0026quot; comment about the asset markets and the controversy it stirred up? He was pretty much told to not say anything like that ever again (at least as Fed chairman), and he obeyed his masters. "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/133075733818373939"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/133075733818373939"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html?showComment=1536548260505#c133075733818373939","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5125217680828703855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5125217680828703855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/09\/2018 07:57:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6063290428111876736"},"published":{"$t":"2018-09-09T06:44:36.127-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-09-09T06:44:36.127-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I think there\u0026#39;s a disconnect here between \u0026quo..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I think there\u0026#39;s a disconnect here between \u0026quot;influencing\u0026quot; people who attain positions of power and \u0026quot;actually being a causal agent in the attaining of those positions\u0026quot;, which is somewhat more difficult to establish. A lot of people cite Rand as an influence without swallowing her entire philosophy - do they achieve success because of Rand\u0026#39;s influence, or is it incidental compared to other factors? If, for example, I am the son of a wealthy politician and I take up politics myself after falling in love with Atlas Shrugged, is it Rand that gets me elected, or the money and contacts my family provides? Does Objectivism actually provide me with a real business plan, if I should start a company, or is it more a general outlook and I have to be clever enough to figure out the mechanics of running the business myself in order to be successful?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd so with Greenspan, who seems intelligent enough to carve his path with or without Rand\u0026#39;s influence. We can never know what path he might have taken, or whether his essential policies would have differed, had he never encountered Rand - but it\u0026#39;s not impossible to conjecture that believing capitalism is actually moral or not would be largely irrelevant when setting up a policy that actually affects the economy."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/6063290428111876736"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/6063290428111876736"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html?showComment=1536500676127#c6063290428111876736","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Jzero"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5125217680828703855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5125217680828703855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/09\/2018 06:44:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3698670179461398460"},"published":{"$t":"2018-09-09T00:15:14.803-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-09-09T00:15:14.803-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"*Lenny Peikoff blew a gasket about it.\n\nNot public..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"*Lenny Peikoff blew a gasket about it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot publicly at the time, but he issued a moral denunciation of Greenspan on his radio show about 10 years later."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/3698670179461398460"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/3698670179461398460"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html?showComment=1536477314803#c3698670179461398460","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anon \"devil's advocate\""},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5125217680828703855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5125217680828703855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/09\/2018 12:15:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7245498582494268864"},"published":{"$t":"2018-09-09T00:07:51.912-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-09-09T00:07:51.912-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026gt;I suspect that Greenspan would have made it wi..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026gt;I suspect that Greenspan would have made it without AR.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe injected a lot of confidence in him, though. The following is from a long profile in The New Yorker in 2000. \u0026quot;When Greenspan met Rand, he saw himself as a logical positivist, believing that all moral codes were arbitrary human constructs that cannot be verified. Rand regarded logical positivism as a dead end. In her controversial philosophy of objectivism, she argued that capitalism was innately superior to other socioeconomic systems, such as feudalism and socialism, because it was based on voluntary exchange[...] Greenspan has never been shy about acknowledging his intellectual debt to Rand. \u0026#39;What she did—through long discussions and lots of arguments into the night—was to make me think why capitalism is not only efficient and practical, but also moral,\u0026#39; he told a reporter from the [New York] Times in 1974.\u0026quot; https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2000\/04\/24\/the-fountainhead\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd AR cheered his going to DC to be an economic advisor to Presidents Nixon and Ford. Here she is with Greenspan in Ford\u0026#39;s Oval Office: https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y93rfk9o\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWould she have cheered his later acceptance of Fed chairmanship? Unknown. But one thing *is* certain: Lenny Peikoff blew a gasket about it."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/7245498582494268864"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/7245498582494268864"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html?showComment=1536476871912#c7245498582494268864","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anon \"devil's advocate\""},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5125217680828703855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5125217680828703855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/09\/2018 12:07:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2502095016155912943"},"published":{"$t":"2018-09-08T08:24:16.077-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-09-08T08:24:16.077-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I suspect that Greenspan would have made it withou..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003EI suspect that Greenspan would have made it without AR.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn fact, if he had followed AR he would never have accepted the Fed chairmanship.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESee his GOLD \u0026amp; ECONOMIC FREEDOM where he advocated the abolition of the Fed!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/2502095016155912943"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/2502095016155912943"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html?showComment=1536420256077#c2502095016155912943","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5125217680828703855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5125217680828703855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/08\/2018 08:24:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2705758571158489865"},"published":{"$t":"2018-09-05T21:01:30.521-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-09-05T21:01:30.521-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026gt;Ideologies will flourish to the extent that th..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026gt;Ideologies will flourish to the extent that they help whatever factions enlist them attain positions of power and influence for their leaders. From this point of view, Objectivism would have to be regarded as a poorly equipped ideology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI agree with the technical analysis of Objectivism that you present in your book, but to play devil\u0026#39;s advocate here, are we certain that O has not helped its leaders--or some of them--to attain positions of power and influence? Who is Alan Greenspan? (It does no good to quibble over abstruse details like the Peikoff\/Greenspan schism. Clearly Greenspan ended up where he did because of the influence that Rand\u0026#39;s ideas exercised on him; and clearly it was a position of great power.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne might also argue that the ascendancy of \u0026quot;The Washington Consensus\u0026quot; was in part driven by ideas which are best expounded\/sanctioned by O. In his NYT op-ed, the recent Trump White House defector, an avowed representative of the \u0026quot;steady (deep) state,\u0026quot; named his moral lodestar: \u0026quot;free minds and free markets.\u0026quot; Paul Ryan, that boyish fan of spreadsheeting our way to freedom from social safety nets, was brought up intellectually by Atlas Shrugged. \u0026quot;The Washington Consensus\u0026quot; is full of people more or less swimming in Rand\u0026#39;s intellectual wake, as hard as that is to stomach. That their day may have passed is no argument that they never had their day.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn a lower level of power and influence, look at Yaron Brook and some principals of the ARI. One criticism of the ARI is that such individuals made a mint out of it. Brook still runs around giving paid speeches and writing op-eds for USA TODAY. So even if only in the meanest sense, O. enabled *some* individuals to pole-vault their way to \u0026quot;positions of power and influence.\u0026quot; Again, that the gravy train may be hitting a fatal bump now is no argument against this point.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThus, not an \u0026quot;almost completely useless\u0026quot; philosophy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(End of devil\u0026#39;s advocacy.)"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/2705758571158489865"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/2705758571158489865"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html?showComment=1536206490521#c2705758571158489865","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5125217680828703855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5125217680828703855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/05\/2018 09:01:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5363122399758809684"},"published":{"$t":"2018-09-01T20:15:29.727-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-09-01T20:15:29.727-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"gregnyquist said... : When an ideology fails to ga..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cb\u003E gregnyquist said... : When an ideology fails to gain traction[...]\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMy goal is to enjoy this life, on this earth, in this life-time; I study philosophy toward this end, and judge the value of philosophical ideas by this standard."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/5363122399758809684"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/5363122399758809684"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html?showComment=1535858129727#c5363122399758809684","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anna W."},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5125217680828703855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5125217680828703855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/01\/2018 08:15:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3995920468710438582"},"published":{"$t":"2018-08-31T07:21:44.390-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-08-31T07:21:44.390-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I disagree with your conclusions, but it helps me ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":" \u003Ci\u003EI disagree with your conclusions, but it helps me to know explicitly, what I have supposed are commonly held but unverbalised conclusions about Objectivism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI rather doubt that my critique of Objectivism can provide clues or insights on commonly held unverbalized conclusions about Objectivism. Most people would judge Objectivism as they judge everything else, by comparing to their own ideological and moral preferences. My critique of Objectivism is based in large part on empirical research of cognitive and psychological science. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E the presentation and dissemination of Ayn Rand\u0026#39;s philosophy(much as with Aristotle\u0026#39;s) has been handled poorly from the beginning(starting with AR); a situation little improved by ARI and its current advocates(let alone the mediocrities on YouTube).\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen an ideology fails to gain traction it\u0026#39;s always tempting to find some facile explanation, such as poor presentation or lack of opportunities for exposure. But this is an outcome of a naive and empirical impoverished understanding of how these things work. The role of an ideology is to serve as rallying agenda for various factions competing for power in society. Ideologies will flourish to the extent that they help whatever factions enlist them attain positions of power and influence for their leaders. From this point of view, Objectivism would have to be regarded as a poorly equipped ideology, since it seeks to inflict its views on the world, not by helping its leaders attain positions of eminence and political power in society, but by quibbling about points of abstruse philosophy. In that sense, Objectivism serves to weaken its leaders and followers alike, which is likely the main reason why it hasn\u0026#39;t gain much traction in society. As an ideology, Objectivism is almost completely useless."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/3995920468710438582"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/3995920468710438582"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html?showComment=1535725304390#c3995920468710438582","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5125217680828703855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5125217680828703855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"8\/31\/2018 07:21:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1967800878602561547"},"published":{"$t":"2018-08-28T18:36:48.304-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-08-28T18:36:48.304-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"@Anonymus:\n\u0026quot;\u0026#39;If you feel frustrated by yo..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"@Anonymus:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;\u0026#39;If you feel frustrated by your lack of progress in understanding Objectivism\u0026#39;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESomehow I feel this is a situation that almost never happens.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhich might be the root of most troubles: We always think we understood adequately -- but it\u0026#39;s invariably an interpretation (including this statement), be it of a text or of a perception of reality. Then we come across some different interpretation (read: understanding) of the same thing (and subsequently have to understand\/interprete it in turn) -- a big, ugly clusterffffffff-oxtrott waiting to happen.\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhich is why I remind myself at time that a hundred years from now, we\u0026#39;ll either all be immortal -- or dead. So not much point in being angry with each other^^"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/1967800878602561547"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/1967800878602561547"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html?showComment=1535506608304#c1967800878602561547","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Uriel"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5125217680828703855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5125217680828703855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"8\/28\/2018 06:36:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4510165000726169222"},"published":{"$t":"2018-08-28T18:22:33.483-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-08-28T18:22:33.483-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"@gregnyquist: Thanks for the answers. And sorry I\u0026..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"@gregnyquist: Thanks for the answers. And sorry I\u0026#39;m late. Just today remembered the article (and honestly did not expect anything). Will have to reread \u0026quot;For The New Intellectual\u0026quot; (the essay, I take it) to make up my mind about that detail.\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor the rest, well, not the greatest of news to recieve (but they explain a thing or two)."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/4510165000726169222"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/4510165000726169222"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html?showComment=1535505753483#c4510165000726169222","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Uriel"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5125217680828703855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5125217680828703855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"8\/28\/2018 06:22:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6840246385506328595"},"published":{"$t":"2018-08-25T15:00:22.361-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-08-25T15:00:22.361-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;If you feel frustrated by your lack of progr..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;If you feel frustrated by your lack of progress in understanding Objectivism\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESomehow I feel this is a situation that almost never happens."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/6840246385506328595"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/6840246385506328595"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html?showComment=1535234422361#c6840246385506328595","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5125217680828703855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5125217680828703855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"8\/25\/2018 03:00:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4431068695192113084"},"published":{"$t":"2018-08-24T00:39:01.952-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-08-24T00:39:01.952-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"To the author :\n--------------------------\nThank y..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cb\u003ETo the author :\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E--------------------------\u003Cbr \/\u003EThank you for writing this post; your writing is clear, succinct, free of psychologizing polemics and focused on fundamentals; intellectually honest(for the most part) critics of Ayn Rand are rare. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI consider myself an Objectivist(~10 yrs since I discovered AR); I disagree with your conclusions, but it helps me to know explicitly, what I have supposed are commonly held but unverbalised conclusions about Objectivism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso, I sympathize, i.e. I can see the origin of your errors; the presentation and dissemination of Ayn Rand\u0026#39;s philosophy(much as with Aristotle\u0026#39;s) has been handled poorly from the beginning(starting with AR); a situation little improved by ARI and its current advocates(let alone the mediocrities on YouTube).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003ETo the general reader :\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E--------------------------\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe author presents a confused and irrationally biased grasp of Objectivism.\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you feel frustrated by your lack of progress in understanding Objectivism, don\u0026#39;t blame yourself; most of the fundamentals are poorly explained, scattered and dishonestly\\ignorantly presented as complete\\valid.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs a starting point, I recommend the following course:\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter AR\u0026#39;s \u0026quot;Philosophy: Who needs it\u0026quot;, \u003Cbr \/\u003EI highly recommend all of Edith Packers lectures on Psychology, \u003Cbr \/\u003Ealso listen to Dr.Ellen Kenner\u0026#39;s radio show,\u003Cbr \/\u003ELeonard Peikoff\u0026#39;s course \u0026quot;Understanding Objectivism\u0026quot;.\u003Cbr \/\u003ENathaniel Branden\u0026#39;s \u0026quot;The Psychology of Self-Esteem\u0026quot; as well as his \u0026quot;Basic Principles of Objectivism\u0026quot;, both authored while under the tutelage of AR, are highly recommended.\u003Cbr \/\u003EBarbara Brandens course \u0026quot;Principles of Efficient Thinking\u0026quot; is also outstanding.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFinally avoid the temptation of a quick 2nd-hand answer; do not treat the material dogmatically, if you cannot prove the idea to yourself(or know what \u0026quot;prove\u0026quot; means), reserve judgement, form an explicit verbal hypothesis, and work to verify it."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/4431068695192113084"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/4431068695192113084"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html?showComment=1535096341952#c4431068695192113084","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anna 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PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6282091669731851345"},"published":{"$t":"2018-08-07T13:34:41.099-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-08-07T13:34:41.099-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The \u0026quot;had to be\u0026quot; part is what eludes me: ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EThe \u0026quot;had to be\u0026quot; part is what eludes me: Is it meant in the descriptive (\u0026quot;cannot be other than\u0026quot;) or in the normative (\u0026quot;better should be so\u0026quot;) way?\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor Rand, that is a descriptive statement. See \u003Ci\u003EFor the New Intellectual\u003C\/i\u003E for greater clarification. Peikoff, in his writings on history, presents the most extreme development of this basic view.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003Ewhy Kant\u0026#39;s cat.imp. as example?\u003C\/i\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI chose Kant to show that Rand is not alone in making this error. And while it\u0026#39;s true that people argue over the meaning of the Cat. Imp., that\u0026#39;s precisely part of the problem: if taken in its most literal sense, the principle leads to absurdities, which causes people to assume Kant must have meant his principle in some more obscure or nuanced way. But the problem here is deeper than that. The fact is, moral judgments are often far too subtle and nuanced to be adequately summarized in broad articulable principles. When people to try express their moral sentiments in terms of abstract principles, the inadequacy of those principles soon becomes apparent to more intellectually fastidious critics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EIs it justified to assume that the argument about ethics leads to the conclusion that moral philosophy is basically more about rationalizing dicisions rather than guiding decisions?\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen philosophers are using different arguments to justify the same conduct, it does raise the suspicion that moral philosophy contains a large component of rationalizing and casuistry. However, the evidence in support of that view is taken from empirical research, not from any one argument. See Jonathan Haidt\u0026#39;s \u003Ci\u003EThe Righteous Mind\u003C\/i\u003E."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/6282091669731851345"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/6282091669731851345"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html?showComment=1533674081099#c6282091669731851345","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5125217680828703855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5125217680828703855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"8\/07\/2018 01:34:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7167680804714090886"},"published":{"$t":"2018-08-07T13:07:20.588-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-08-07T13:07:20.588-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;Essentially, when it comes to issues of huma..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;Essentially, when it comes to issues of human nature, cognition, psychology, evolution, Objectivism transcends facts.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EO\u0026#39;s fatal flaw is its view of human nature, as you well know (\u0026quot;contra human nature\u0026quot;). It originated with Rand\u0026#39;s childhood assumptions about the psychology of, in essence, a comic book hero (Cyrus). She said several times that this inspired her view of capital-M Man, which in turn inspired her philosophizing (and the intention of the philosophizing was only ever a tool to create such characters for her novels). Very funny\/sad to think about where O. actually comes from--it is certainly an instance of the triviality around which \u0026quot;philosophic\u0026quot; \u0026quot;movements\u0026quot; can be built.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECyrus doesn\u0026#39;t need IQ, tradition, the transcendent, community, etc. He fights the Raj\u0026#39;s tigers with FREE WILL, by THINKING (like little Alyssa does). Since anyone can THINK if only he or she WILLS it, all people are--in all other respects--equal. Replace \u0026quot;Cyrus\u0026quot; with \u0026quot;Spider-Man\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;tigers\u0026quot; with \u0026quot;the Green Goblin,\u0026quot; and neglect to study science, history, anthropology, and maybe you too can be the next \u0026quot;rational philosopher.\u0026quot;"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6755590575051424675\/comments\/default\/7167680804714090886"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6755590575051424675\/comments\/default\/7167680804714090886"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/peterson-at-ocon-quick-and-dirty-review.html?showComment=1533672440588#c7167680804714090886","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/peterson-at-ocon-quick-and-dirty-review.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6755590575051424675","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6755590575051424675","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"8\/07\/2018 01:07:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-783101964850643818"},"published":{"$t":"2018-08-04T05:40:39.941-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-08-04T05:40:39.941-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Greetings,\nWatching my thoughts while reading this..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Greetings,\u003Cbr \/\u003EWatching my thoughts while reading this article, I figured that I do not seem to understand something\/s.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E1st: Agreement to the 2nd paragraph concerning the representation of Rand\u0026#39;s view. But I am unclear about the statement \u0026quot;That someone, Rand argued, had to be a philosopher...\u0026quot; The \u0026quot;had to be\u0026quot; part is what eludes me: Is it meant in the descriptive (\u0026quot;cannot be other than\u0026quot;) or in the normative (\u0026quot;better should be so\u0026quot;) way?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E2nd: In the third paragraph, why Kant\u0026#39;s cat.imp. as example? It is famous, but still fought over, both concerning its meaning and value (plus, Rand agreed that Kant is useless. I disagree, because his texts are a great subject to study German grammar on). Some of Rand\u0026#39;s maximes as example would maybe have gotten the point better across.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E3rd: Is it justified to assume that the argument about ethics leads to the conclusion that moral philosophy is basically more about rationalizing dicisions rather than guiding decisions?"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/783101964850643818"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/783101964850643818"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html?showComment=1533386439941#c783101964850643818","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Uriel"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5125217680828703855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5125217680828703855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"8\/04\/2018 05:40:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3400609702707989778"},"published":{"$t":"2018-07-30T04:40:02.181-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-07-30T04:40:02.181-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Off topic, but Shoshana Milgram, who is or was the..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Off topic, but Shoshana Milgram, who is or was the authorized biographer of Rand, appeared on Strive Face Book page yesterday for an interview on her biography (which will be up to \u0026#39;57).  No mention of when the book will be published (although I didn\u0026#39;t hear the last 15 minutes or so of the show.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/3400609702707989778"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5125217680828703855\/comments\/default\/3400609702707989778"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html?showComment=1532950802181#c3400609702707989778","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/what-was-ayn-rand-wrong-about.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5125217680828703855","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5125217680828703855","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/30\/2018 04:40:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7308627564919124601"},"published":{"$t":"2018-07-29T08:12:17.888-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-07-29T08:12:17.888-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Very Nice And Interesting Post\nGreat Quotes - 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When extra-empirical theories, whether religious or ideological in nature, conflict with science, we end up getting these odd attempts to try to rationalize away the differences, and that\u0026#39;s what I see in this video."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6755590575051424675\/comments\/default\/5179274245500334735"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6755590575051424675\/comments\/default\/5179274245500334735"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/peterson-at-ocon-quick-and-dirty-review.html?showComment=1531669386320#c5179274245500334735","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/peterson-at-ocon-quick-and-dirty-review.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6755590575051424675","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6755590575051424675","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/15\/2018 08:43:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-663908802966795794"},"published":{"$t":"2018-07-08T07:10:14.944-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-07-08T07:10:14.944-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Tew analyzes Peterson, Brook, etc. OCON debate:\n\nh..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Tew analyzes Peterson, Brook, etc. OCON debate:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cdsrAtXQ6C0\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6755590575051424675\/comments\/default\/663908802966795794"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6755590575051424675\/comments\/default\/663908802966795794"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/peterson-at-ocon-quick-and-dirty-review.html?showComment=1531059014944#c663908802966795794","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/peterson-at-ocon-quick-and-dirty-review.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6755590575051424675","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6755590575051424675","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/08\/2018 07:10:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-754972261135736797"},"published":{"$t":"2018-07-08T06:53:33.881-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-07-08T06:53:33.881-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;It\u0026#39;s like there\u0026#39;s an attraction\/repu..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;It\u0026#39;s like there\u0026#39;s an attraction\/repulsion dynamic going on, and the most likely explanation for this is that, at some very deep level, these Objectivists are not satisfied with their lives. There are parts of their nature, as human beings, that are being trampled on, distorted, mauled by adherence to Randian ideology and what that involves in practice. Tew comes off as an arrogant, absurdly opinionated, fanatical, even hateful ideologue. Is this the kind of person he really wants to be?\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaybe it\u0026#39;s a question of jealousy.  Objectivism has been an organized movement since the NBI and out of the blue comes Peterson with a number one best seller which is sympathetic to traditional religion, etc."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6755590575051424675\/comments\/default\/754972261135736797"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6755590575051424675\/comments\/default\/754972261135736797"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/peterson-at-ocon-quick-and-dirty-review.html?showComment=1531058013881#c754972261135736797","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/peterson-at-ocon-quick-and-dirty-review.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6755590575051424675","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6755590575051424675","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/08\/2018 06:53:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7559753476121798924"},"published":{"$t":"2018-07-07T11:01:53.790-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-07-07T11:01:53.790-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"https:\/\/indiameds.in\/sexual-wellness\n"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"https:\/\/indiameds.in\/sexual-wellness\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6755590575051424675\/comments\/default\/7559753476121798924"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6755590575051424675\/comments\/default\/7559753476121798924"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/peterson-at-ocon-quick-and-dirty-review.html?showComment=1530986513790#c7559753476121798924","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/peterson-at-ocon-quick-and-dirty-review.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6755590575051424675","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6755590575051424675","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/07\/2018 11:01:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7734386204734552882"},"published":{"$t":"2018-07-05T12:42:22.785-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-07-05T12:42:22.785-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I think you are a very insightful person.  What yo..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I think you are a very insightful person.  What you outlined above describes (in a smaller way) what occurred with myself regarding be hardline stance of ARI and objectivism generally.  When I first heard Peterson talk, I was annoyed at the religious nature of mph is arguments.  Slowly he (Peterson) moved me.  I think the hardline, atheistic stance of Objectivism makes a person miss out on a big part of life.  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He discussed this at 25 on.  Salmieri and Brook wisely decided not to challenge him on it."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6755590575051424675\/comments\/default\/8262815436690678625"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6755590575051424675\/comments\/default\/8262815436690678625"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/peterson-at-ocon-quick-and-dirty-review.html?showComment=1530748360200#c8262815436690678625","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/peterson-at-ocon-quick-and-dirty-review.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6755590575051424675","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6755590575051424675","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/04\/2018 04:52:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-232463836705621169"},"published":{"$t":"2018-07-01T18:13:41.736-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-07-01T18:13:41.736-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Brook also said recently that he supports torture...."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Brook also said recently that he supports torture."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1467618109008150499\/comments\/default\/232463836705621169"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1467618109008150499\/comments\/default\/232463836705621169"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/objectivism-autopsy-part-4.html?showComment=1530494021736#c232463836705621169","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/objectivism-autopsy-part-4.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1467618109008150499","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1467618109008150499","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/01\/2018 06:13:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-136954444455664028"},"published":{"$t":"2018-07-01T11:58:31.369-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-07-01T11:58:31.369-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;How many people on the planet earth, sitting..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;How many people on the planet earth, sitting in their chair with the nuclear code, responsible for the life or death of millions of people, knowing that the entire world would condemn them, that history might condemn them, that the American people would condemn them, how many people would actually give that advice to the president of the United States? Two, three maybe. Me, Leonard, you [Amy], I don’t know but very few people.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E— Yaron Brook on the Yaron and Amy Show, 28 April 2018, titled \u0026#39;Why Not \u0026quot;Atlas Lobbied\u0026quot;?\u0026#39;\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Brook ever appears on Joe Rogan\u0026#39;s podcast, somebody needs tell either Rogan or the producer of his podcast about this quote. As long as Rogan knows about it, I have confidence that he will challenge Brook about it."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1467618109008150499\/comments\/default\/136954444455664028"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1467618109008150499\/comments\/default\/136954444455664028"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/objectivism-autopsy-part-4.html?showComment=1530471511369#c136954444455664028","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/objectivism-autopsy-part-4.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1467618109008150499","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1467618109008150499","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/01\/2018 11:58:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4843991062598429328"},"published":{"$t":"2018-07-01T11:37:04.055-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-07-01T11:37:04.055-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"It\u0026#39;s funny, the guy doesn\u0026#39;t have a problem..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":" \u003Ci\u003EIt\u0026#39;s funny, the guy doesn\u0026#39;t have a problem with Yaron debating Peterson, it\u0026#39;s just the forum (OCONN\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI don\u0026#39;t know how sincere Tew is being here. The fact is, it\u0026#39;s likely that the only way Brook could arrange a discussion with Peterson would be to invite him to OCONN. The back story of this is Peterson happens to be in SoCal this weekend, having done several events in the area. Let\u0026#39;s face it. Peterson\u0026#39;s very busy and Brook is not an important person. If Brook insisted on debating Peterson at a neutral site, it\u0026#39;s probably not happening. So Tew\u0026#39;s position basically amounts to, in practical terms, no discussion likely ever happening with Peterson.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne other oddity with Tew deserves mention. He claims to know more about Peterson than Brook, Binswanger, or Amy Peikoff (who read Peterson\u0026#39;s \u0026quot;12 Rules\u0026quot;). This suggests that Tew has been absorbing a lot of Peterson material. Apparently, he\u0026#39;s not alone in having done this. At least some Objectivists (I have no idea how many) have become kind of obsessed with Peterson, even while realizing and perhaps being deeply annoyed by the fact that many of Peterson\u0026#39;s notions challenge core Randian and Peikoffian principles. It\u0026#39;s like there\u0026#39;s an attraction\/repulsion dynamic going on, and the most likely explanation for this is that, at some very deep level, these Objectivists are not satisfied with their lives. There are parts of their nature, as human beings, that are being trampled on, distorted, mauled by adherence to Randian ideology and what that involves in practice. Tew comes off as an arrogant, absurdly opinionated, fanatical, even hateful ideologue. Is this the kind of person he really wants to be? Is isolating himself from all normal people really the best way for him to achieve his goals or find fulfillment in life? At some level, deep within the inner recesses of his adaptive unconscious, there has to be a sense, a repressed awareness, that he\u0026#39;s in a dark place, and that Jordan Peterson\u0026#39;s psychology may potentially provide a way out of this madness. "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6051127118501302243\/comments\/default\/4843991062598429328"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6051127118501302243\/comments\/default\/4843991062598429328"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/jordan-peterson-is-going-to-ocon.html?showComment=1530470224055#c4843991062598429328","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/jordan-peterson-is-going-to-ocon.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6051127118501302243","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6051127118501302243","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/01\/2018 11:37:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2139049903843845429"},"published":{"$t":"2018-07-01T08:06:35.993-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-07-01T08:06:35.993-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"It\u0026#39;s here (3:30 PST, 6:30 EST) July 1:\n\nhttps:..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"It\u0026#39;s here (3:30 PST, 6:30 EST) July 1:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aIdWAa-0oOw\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6051127118501302243\/comments\/default\/2139049903843845429"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6051127118501302243\/comments\/default\/2139049903843845429"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/jordan-peterson-is-going-to-ocon.html?showComment=1530457595993#c2139049903843845429","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/jordan-peterson-is-going-to-ocon.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6051127118501302243","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6051127118501302243","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/01\/2018 08:06:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2484449309016787037"},"published":{"$t":"2018-07-01T07:48:28.919-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-07-01T07:48:28.919-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I see his point - for example the ARI initial emai..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I see his point - for example the ARI initial email said \u0026quot;Jordan Peterson to speak at OCONN.\u0026quot;  But when you\u0026#39;ve lost a big donor and had to lay off a third of your staff, you need to increase the pool of potential donors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStill no idea who the big donor was.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENeil"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6051127118501302243\/comments\/default\/2484449309016787037"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6051127118501302243\/comments\/default\/2484449309016787037"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/jordan-peterson-is-going-to-ocon.html?showComment=1530456508919#c2484449309016787037","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/jordan-peterson-is-going-to-ocon.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6051127118501302243","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6051127118501302243","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/01\/2018 07:48:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-9004708624173465739"},"published":{"$t":"2018-07-01T07:07:04.197-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-07-01T07:07:04.197-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I listened to a little bit of this.  Mr. Tew says ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I listened to a little bit of this.  Mr. Tew says the only intellectual he respects is Harry Binswanger.  Binswanger is the most dogmatic of Objectivists, probably worse than Peikoff was.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt\u0026#39;s funny, the guy doesn\u0026#39;t have a problem with Yaron debating Peterson, it\u0026#39;s just the forum (OCONN).  OCONN should be a time for \u0026quot;fellowship\u0026quot; with like minded believers, to use religious terminology.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENeil"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6051127118501302243\/comments\/default\/9004708624173465739"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6051127118501302243\/comments\/default\/9004708624173465739"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/jordan-peterson-is-going-to-ocon.html?showComment=1530454024197#c9004708624173465739","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/jordan-peterson-is-going-to-ocon.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6051127118501302243","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6051127118501302243","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7\/01\/2018 07:07:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7761561751330679593"},"published":{"$t":"2018-06-30T18:41:10.654-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-06-30T18:41:10.654-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"What little reaction that has so far come from Obj..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"What little reaction that has so far come from Objectivist is largely hostile. Somebody calling themselves Charles Tew has criticized Peterson\u0026#39;s invitation to OCON quite harshly. Tew regards Peterson as, in essence, a Nazi, and according to Tew, so does Harry Binswanger. If Tew\u0026#39;s video is characteristic of the intellectual character of the typical orthodox Objectivist (I\u0026#39;m not saying he is: I don\u0026#39;t know really know), then things become even darker in ARI-land than I had previously imagined. Tews video can be found here:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q5Ce45H7ojU"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6051127118501302243\/comments\/default\/7761561751330679593"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6051127118501302243\/comments\/default\/7761561751330679593"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/jordan-peterson-is-going-to-ocon.html?showComment=1530409270654#c7761561751330679593","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/jordan-peterson-is-going-to-ocon.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6051127118501302243","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6051127118501302243","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/30\/2018 06:41:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7265250102833564534"},"published":{"$t":"2018-06-24T08:22:53.280-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-06-24T08:22:53.280-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"For what it\u0026#39;s worth, here is my review of Vall..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"For what it\u0026#39;s worth, here is my review of Valliant\u0026#39;s Creating Christ on Amazon (be sure to check out my extensive comments):\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Creating-Christ-Emperors-Invented-Christianity-ebook\/product-reviews\/B01LRP3EDG\/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_hist_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;filterByStar=one_star\u0026amp;reviewerType=all_reviews#reviews-filter-bar\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6051127118501302243\/comments\/default\/7265250102833564534"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6051127118501302243\/comments\/default\/7265250102833564534"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/jordan-peterson-is-going-to-ocon.html?showComment=1529853773280#c7265250102833564534","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/jordan-peterson-is-going-to-ocon.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6051127118501302243","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6051127118501302243","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/24\/2018 08:22:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-550641723938040699"},"published":{"$t":"2018-06-24T08:19:08.950-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-06-24T08:19:08.950-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"It\u0026#39;s funny, most people like to debate ideas a..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"It\u0026#39;s funny, most people like to debate ideas and respond to their critics.  But for Objectivists it is seldom the case.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI offered to debate James Valliant on his books Creating Christ and The Passion of Ayn Rand\u0026#39;s Critics on Amy Peikoff\u0026#39;s show and pick up the tab.  Valliant put so many restrictions on this (eg, I couldn\u0026#39;t call him \u0026quot;Jim\u0026quot;) that no self respecting person would agree.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6051127118501302243\/comments\/default\/550641723938040699"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6051127118501302243\/comments\/default\/550641723938040699"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/jordan-peterson-is-going-to-ocon.html?showComment=1529853548950#c550641723938040699","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/jordan-peterson-is-going-to-ocon.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6051127118501302243","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6051127118501302243","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/24\/2018 08:19:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-211223211482325142"},"published":{"$t":"2018-06-24T06:31:49.032-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-06-24T06:31:49.032-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Incidentally this debate was approved by the \u0026quot..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Incidentally this debate was approved by the \u0026quot;intellectual oversight committee\u0026quot; of the ARI which is made up of Yaron Brook, Robert Mayhew*, Harry Binswanger and Tara Smith.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBrook said this on a recent podcast.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENeil\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E_____________\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E*Mayhew is the guy who thinks it\u0026#39;s okay to rewrite Rand\u0026#39;s posthoumous material.  Where is the oversight?"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6051127118501302243\/comments\/default\/211223211482325142"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6051127118501302243\/comments\/default\/211223211482325142"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/jordan-peterson-is-going-to-ocon.html?showComment=1529847109032#c211223211482325142","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/jordan-peterson-is-going-to-ocon.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6051127118501302243","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6051127118501302243","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/24\/2018 06:31:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4430388094732001563"},"published":{"$t":"2018-06-23T08:12:18.465-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-06-23T08:12:18.465-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Objectivists have debated others in the past. Ghat..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EObjectivists have debated others in the past. Ghate debated Heumer in ethics and Peikoff debated a socialist years ago. \u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Objectivist old guard (Peikoff, Binswanger, Schwartz et al) would have debates with \u0026quot;socialists\u0026quot; — i.e., people on the left, mostly academics, but also people like the late Christopher Hitchens. However, they would carefully vet who they were willing to debate, and tended to avoid debates with libertarians and conservatives. I know for a fact that back in the late eighties some students at UCI tried to arrange a debate between conservative talk show host Dennis Prager and a prominent Objectivist. They actually contacted Prager, who agreed to do the debate. But when they asked ARI to find for them an Objectivist to debate Prager, they were rebuffed. Michael Berliner, the head of ARI at the time, told these students that the only Objectivist who was qualified to debate Prager was Leonard Peikoff, but that since preparation for such a debate would take Peikoff months, he just couldn\u0026#39;t do it (Peikoff was busy finishing OPAR at the time). I\u0026#39;ve always appreciated Berliner\u0026#39;s candor on this issue, because I think he was right. Prager would have been a significantly more dangerous adversary than the far left socialists Objectivists normally debated back in those days.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI\u0026#39;m willing to give Brook credit for willing to talk with Peterson. That\u0026#39;s something the old guard Objectivists would never have done. But it should also be kept in mind that Peterson is not coming to OCON because of Brook or anyone at ARI; he\u0026#39;s coming there because of Dave Rubin. Rubin\u0026#39;s a super nice guy; but the problem with super nice people is that they\u0026#39;re sometimes naive and easily taken in. I doubt that Rubin knows anything of Brook\u0026#39;s crazier beliefs, or the darker aspects of orthodox Objectivism."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6051127118501302243\/comments\/default\/4430388094732001563"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6051127118501302243\/comments\/default\/4430388094732001563"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/jordan-peterson-is-going-to-ocon.html?showComment=1529766738465#c4430388094732001563","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/jordan-peterson-is-going-to-ocon.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6051127118501302243","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6051127118501302243","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/23\/2018 08:12:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-495582550797315496"},"published":{"$t":"2018-06-23T05:25:02.896-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-06-23T05:25:02.896-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Objectivists have debated others in the past.  Gha..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Objectivists have debated others in the past.  Ghate debated Heumer in ethics and Peikoff debated a socialist years ago.  Brook has debated about inequality. But these are more abstract issues which aren\u0026#39;t likely to change someone\u0026#39;s mind.  So this debate\/discussion is quite different. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBrook has refused to debate anyone over immigration, which is also a fact-based topic so he is going out on a limb here for the sake of eyeballs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust a few months ago Brook said \u0026quot;IQ tests are bullshit.\u0026quot;  Unless he\u0026#39;s been reading up on the issues Peterson is an expert on this might not end well.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6051127118501302243\/comments\/default\/495582550797315496"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/6051127118501302243\/comments\/default\/495582550797315496"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/jordan-peterson-is-going-to-ocon.html?showComment=1529756702896#c495582550797315496","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/jordan-peterson-is-going-to-ocon.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6051127118501302243","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/6051127118501302243","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/23\/2018 05:25:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6318812555265283546"},"published":{"$t":"2018-06-22T06:17:58.848-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-06-22T06:17:58.848-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Recently, Brook called for nuking Iran\n\nAs far as ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003ERecently, Brook called for nuking Iran\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs far as I know, Brook has not said anything about this when he\u0026#39;s talked to people like Gad Saad and Dave Rubin. I doubt Saad or Rubin know about this. (It would seem that Amy Peikoff brings out the worst in Brook.) Now Rubin is trying to get Brook on the Joe Rogan podcast. But if that should ever happen, and Rogan finds out about these views, Brook will definitely be called to account. 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Two, three maybe. 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I always suspected that Brook wanted to downplay the more philosophical side of Objectivism (the epistemology, the metaphysics, the theory of history) and turn ARI into a libertarian advocacy institution. But he may have been hampered in achieving this goal by Leonard Peikoff, who cared more about his own legacy as the chief enforcer of Randian orthodoxy than in promoting libertarian ideas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn some ways Brook was out of place at ARI. He did not have the personality type of the typical orthodox Objectivist. He wasn\u0026#39;t particularly dour or thin-skinned or uptight. On the contrary, he comes off as fairly agreeable (at least for an Objectivist). At times, he\u0026#39;s even self-effacing. He doesn\u0026#39;t seem all that interested in the more abstruse (and often more fallacious) parts of Objectivism. I rather suspect that Ayn Rand would not have approved of him. Brook is currently attempting to become a YouTube\/podcaster pundit. 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His view numbers on YouTube aren\u0026#39;t all that impressive."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1467618109008150499\/comments\/default\/4513325182653665884"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1467618109008150499\/comments\/default\/4513325182653665884"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/objectivism-autopsy-part-4.html?showComment=1528729368115#c4513325182653665884","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/objectivism-autopsy-part-4.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1467618109008150499","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1467618109008150499","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/11\/2018 08:02:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1529270969881063457"},"published":{"$t":"2018-06-10T05:32:15.998-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-06-10T05:32:15.998-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Yaron said on his radio show that the ARI had \u0026quo..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Yaron said on his radio show that the ARI had \u0026quot;significant downsizing\u0026quot; in May because it lost a \u0026quot;major donor.\u0026quot;  That it was around a third of its 50 employees is the scuttlebutt.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENP"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1467618109008150499\/comments\/default\/1529270969881063457"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1467618109008150499\/comments\/default\/1529270969881063457"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/objectivism-autopsy-part-4.html?showComment=1528633935998#c1529270969881063457","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/objectivism-autopsy-part-4.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1467618109008150499","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1467618109008150499","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/10\/2018 05:32:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5595646589362874411"},"published":{"$t":"2018-06-10T00:38:30.250-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-06-10T00:38:30.250-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;It looks like Objectivism is dying. 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Brook was making almost 450K as CEO and must have taken a big cut when named to the board.  (The IRS frowns on paying board members more than 100K).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo it looks like this was a long time coming, but no one knows the detail.  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The ARI last month laid off 1\/3 of its staff because it lost a major donor (no one knows which).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENeil Parille"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1467618109008150499\/comments\/default\/4258720622547616163"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/1467618109008150499\/comments\/default\/4258720622547616163"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/objectivism-autopsy-part-4.html?showComment=1528413649069#c4258720622547616163","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/objectivism-autopsy-part-4.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1467618109008150499","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/1467618109008150499","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6\/07\/2018 04:20:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6530839014217376097"},"published":{"$t":"2018-05-21T14:56:50.085-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-05-21T14:56:50.085-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"You raise some very interesting things to think ab..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"You raise some very interesting things to think about in this post, but I think you are a bit off the mark in assessing Rand\u0026#39;s view of concepts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou wrote:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Concepts are symbols. They are not meant to be taken literally\u0026quot;.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI think Rand would say that \u0026#39;words\u0026#39; are symbols. More specifically, words are groups of visual-auditory symbols each of which designate particular concepts. Concepts, in her view, are \u0026#39;mental integrations of perceptual data\u0026#39; which may or may not be constituted in such a way as to represent \u0026#39;knowledge\u0026#39;.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou also wrote about concepts:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;They don\u0026#39;t even constitute knowledge.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrom what I\u0026#39;ve seen of Rand\u0026#39;s writings, I think she would agree with you that concepts (i.e. mental integrations of perceptual input) do not necessarily constitute knowledge. To qualify as a unit of knowledge, a concept needs to 1) relate to all other concepts in a non-contradictory fashion and 2) be ultimately traceable back to perceptual awareness.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGiven the above, it seems to me that your criticisms of her theory of concepts does not directly address what she meant by it. However, I think what you wrote about measurement omission may still apply, albeit, to a lesser degree. I\u0026#39;ll have to give it some more thought. It could very well be the case that her measurement omission idea requires more development to fully explain the way in which we possess knowledge."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3775634084313581571\/comments\/default\/6530839014217376097"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/3775634084313581571\/comments\/default\/6530839014217376097"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2013\/09\/ayn-rand-epistemology-45.html?showComment=1526939810085#c6530839014217376097","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Principle Centered"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01153143277815161735"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2013\/09\/ayn-rand-epistemology-45.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3775634084313581571","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/3775634084313581571","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-947584055"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/21\/2018 02:56:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8854036430151499668"},"published":{"$t":"2018-05-05T06:11:54.493-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-05-05T06:11:54.493-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Nowadays streaming videos and latest TV shows in d..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Nowadays streaming videos and latest TV shows in different applications is similar as compared to one and other. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/playviewapk.org\/playview-for-pc\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Eplayview for windows\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/2135049176288646900\/comments\/default\/8854036430151499668"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/2135049176288646900\/comments\/default\/8854036430151499668"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/02\/haidt-versus-rand.html?showComment=1525525914493#c8854036430151499668","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"shathakarni"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07389707356944572877"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/02\/haidt-versus-rand.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2135049176288646900","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/2135049176288646900","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2008467981"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"5\/05\/2018 06:11:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4716730708642424218"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-20T11:28:36.477-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-20T11:28:36.477-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;African- American music is America\u0026#39;s mos..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;African- American music is America\u0026#39;s most important contribution to world culture - played everywhere that governments allow it to be played.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESoviet citizens used to bootleg American music by making phonographs out of discarded X-ray films. American music (and its popular culture in general) is arguably one of the things best suited to get \u0026quot;the foot in the door\u0026quot; with other cultures, and spread American values. Even the Beatles started out trying to emulate Chuck Berry.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo what do white ethno-nationalists intend to do when they get their ethno-state and enforce their pure white values? What pure white culture do they intend to present? Country music? A regression to European classical styles? Or will they simply keep on with rock music and make up some B.S. about how it was always all so white...?"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/4716730708642424218"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/4716730708642424218"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1524248916477#c4716730708642424218","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/20\/2018 11:28:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2889923475618176470"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-20T09:48:12.727-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-20T09:48:12.727-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;The previous example of rock music applies: ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;The previous example of rock music applies: rock music is an American invention - but NOT a purely white-derived creation.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne can go a lot further:  in its essentials, it\u0026#39;s a black-derived creation.  Just read any history of rock.  And then, of course, there\u0026#39;s Jazz.  And Blues.  African- American music is America\u0026#39;s most important contribution to world culture - played everywhere that governments allow it to be played.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EElvis Presley went stratospheric in the 1950\u0026#39;s because he was a white singer doing black music.  The racists of that era were totally aware of this fact - and consequently enraged. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIncidentally, rock \u0026#39;n\u0026#39; roll owes its name to a song of 1922 by African American Trixie Smith:  \u0026quot;My baby rocks me with one steady roll\u0026quot;.  I wonder if she\u0026#39;ll be remembered in four years when we reach the centennial?"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/2889923475618176470"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/2889923475618176470"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1524242892727#c2889923475618176470","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gordon Burkowski"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/20\/2018 09:48:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6088894140625779682"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-19T22:33:01.668-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-19T22:33:01.668-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;Is it sheer chance that what we characterize..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;Is it sheer chance that what we characterize as quintessentially \u0026quot;German\u0026quot; was birthed by Germans instead of by Chinese (and vice-versa)? No. The word \u0026quot;nation\u0026quot; comes from the Latin word for \u0026quot;of birth.\u0026quot; It refers correctly and originally to ethnos. Shakespeare would not be Shakespeare nor Beethoven Beethoven nor Ben-Gurion Ben-Gurion had they been born abos or bedouin. The nation\/ethnos\/tribe is the mother of the individual.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhich all sounds very pretty until you think about it for a bit. What we think of as \u0026quot;Japanese\u0026quot; comes from Japan, for instance, but what Japan is originally came from China, and then mutated until the two branches were significantly different. Was Japan \u0026quot;born\u0026quot;, or did it evolve?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat is American - today - comes not only from white settlers, but from influences from other ethnicities. The black slaves have long contributed their part to America\u0026#39;s character. Perhaps not as long as the whites, but long enough. The previous example of rock music applies: rock music is an American invention - but NOT a purely white-derived creation. It would be impossible to separate the black from the white, and why try? (Besides, I refuse to support any state that would by definition sneer at and belittle Hendrix.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica today simply IS multiracial and multicultural, and has been for some time, regardless of what some people earlier in history may have intended. That genie is out of the bottle and it would be a Quixotic trial to try and undo that. Even among whites exclusively there is cultural variation - Southerners, East Coast, West Coast, Midwest, and more - regional differences with a variety of perspectives. If you can\u0026#39;t rely on the unanimity of the fractious white people, then the ethno-state becomes the pipeiest of pipe dreams.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/6088894140625779682"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/6088894140625779682"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1524202381668#c6088894140625779682","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/19\/2018 10:33:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1926835022544216862"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-19T20:12:28.222-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-19T20:12:28.222-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"In case the comment about salt wasn\u0026#39;t understo..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In case the comment about salt wasn\u0026#39;t understood:\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/16\/health\/16iodine.html"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/1926835022544216862"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/1926835022544216862"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1524193948222#c1926835022544216862","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"GenZ Legion"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/19\/2018 08:12:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-448052962441807823"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-19T20:06:36.537-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-19T20:06:36.537-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Burkowski fumes: \u0026quot;Apparently, the word \u0026#39;s..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Burkowski fumes: \u0026quot;Apparently, the word \u0026#39;settler\u0026#39; is acquiring a new meaning here: that of \u0026#39;white immigrant\u0026#39;.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike it or not, America was founded as a white ethnostate. For example, see the Naturalization Act of 1790. That \u0026quot;millions of Latinos whose ancestors settled in places like California and Texas *before either had been incorporated into the United States* [are] treated by many like strangers\u0026quot; isn\u0026#39;t inconsistent. (Emphasis added.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBurkowski: \u0026quot;[later white generations] forget that the same racist nonsense was spewed out upon their own ancestors [...] as is now visited on today\u0026#39;s immigrants.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat one calls another a dummy in error doesn\u0026#39;t mean that dummies do not exist. The average member of those groups back then had a definite opinion about non-whites. We don\u0026#39;t have to wonder what his opinion was. The important question is: was he in error?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGreg: when you say \u0026quot;seven million blacks in America do better on IQ tests than the average white,\u0026quot; you omit that many more millions of average whites do better on IQ tests than blacks. It\u0026#39;s likewise true that a number of individuals are apparently immune to HIV\/AIDS. Nevertheless, many more are not. And avoiding risky behaviors remains the most efficient way to deal with that problem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome trillions of dollars in public policy initiatives have been given to blacks worldwide over the past sixty or more years. Considering the results to date, and even any results in the future, this is an inefficient use of finite resources. The surest and least intrusive way that average black IQ can be increased without gross, egalitarianism-based misallocation seems to be to add more salt to the African diet. If blacks want to do this for their fellows, then good for them. But wouldn\u0026#39;t you condemn that project as ethnocentric (thus \u0026quot;dangerous\u0026quot;), on the grounds that these blacks would be preferentially helping blacks instead of trying to help whites? I believe that you wouldn\u0026#39;t. But if whites tried doing something similar for the (comparatively smaller percentage of) low-IQ whites, it\u0026#39;s certain that every public voice would excoriate them as \u0026quot;neoNazi eugenicists,\u0026quot; including maybe even you as part of your prudent pursuit of realistic popularity or however you\u0026#39;re characterizing your political orientation now. Burkowski would probably report \u0026#39;em to the nearest modern equivalent of the Stasi, clutching his cell phone in one paw and a copy of \u0026quot;Free To Choose\u0026quot; in the other.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELlyod muses: \u0026quot;I identify mostly with my culture and nation and not so much with my race.\u0026quot; To paraphrase Rand: \u0026quot;A culture is a \u0026#39;natural resource,\u0026#39; like a tree, a rock or a mud puddle.... The culture is here.  How did it get here?  Somehow.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIs it sheer chance that what we characterize as quintessentially \u0026quot;German\u0026quot; was birthed by Germans instead of by Chinese (and vice-versa)? No. The word \u0026quot;nation\u0026quot; comes from the Latin word for \u0026quot;of birth.\u0026quot; It refers correctly and originally to ethnos. Shakespeare would not be Shakespeare nor Beethoven Beethoven nor Ben-Gurion Ben-Gurion had they been born abos or bedouin. The nation\/ethnos\/tribe is the mother of the individual. And like the parent\/child relationship, the relationship between the individual and the ethnos is reciprocal; the individual can also contribute to or advance the ethnos, but one mustn\u0026#39;t get the causation backward. The child may be \u0026quot;father to the man,\u0026quot; but he is not father to his father.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELlyod again: \u0026quot;There are multiple forms of intelligence and IQ tests do not measure all of them.\u0026quot; No, general intelligence (g) is back of all. Would you say, \u0026quot;The factory\u0026#39;s machines do many different types of work, therefore the factory\u0026#39;s power generator should be discounted\u0026quot;?"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/448052962441807823"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/448052962441807823"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1524193596537#c448052962441807823","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"GenZ Legion"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/19\/2018 08:06:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3748108012945849060"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-18T09:45:35.623-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-18T09:45:35.623-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"“There is a massive difference between the Europea..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"“There is a massive difference between the European SETTERS and the post 1965 immigrants. . . Jesus Christ, learn your history ”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI\u0026#39;ve been inclined to stay out of this debate, largely out of a sense of fastidiousness.   But this particular remark is such a startling combination of arrogance and historical ignorance that I just have to weigh in.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor the purpose of this argument only, I\u0026#39;ll leave aside the glaring and shameful story of how most African Americans got here.  Let\u0026#39;s talk about “settlers”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMany of the people who came here could be so described.  Take the Homestead Acts, the first of which was signed into law in 1862.  Some 270 million acres of land was given to 1.6 million homesteaders.  That\u0026#39;s impressive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYes, those people were settlers.  So were the millions of Latinos whose ancestors settled in places like California and Texas before either had been incorporated into the United States – and who are now for some reason treated by many like strangers in their own land.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHowever, that wasn\u0026#39;t the way the overwhelming majority of migrants to America got their start.  Thus, between 1880 and 1920 more than 25 million Europeans migrated to the United States.  These “settlers” were typically headed for the stockyards of Chicago; the steel mills of Pittsburgh; the garment district of New York.  And their “homesteads” were typically a quarter of a room in a jerry-built tenement.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EApparently, the word “settler” is acquiring a new meaning here:  that of “white immigrant”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn many cases, the great grandchildren of these early “settlers” are doing very well indeed – and they should be proud of that.  However, their success sometimes leads them to come up with phoney arguments to show that today\u0026#39;s immigrants are different from their own ancestors.  And they forget that the same racist nonsense was spewed out upon their own ancestors – on Italian, Jews, Poles – as is now visited on today\u0026#39;s immigrants.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYes, history is important.  But not the fake kind."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/3748108012945849060"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/3748108012945849060"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1524069935623#c3748108012945849060","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gordon Burkowski"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/18\/2018 09:45:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4316975215559544798"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-18T04:48:28.689-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-18T04:48:28.689-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"IQ tests are reliable and they predict accurately ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"IQ tests are reliable and they predict accurately all sorts of life outcomes that no one ever anticipated.  There are problems with country-wide IQ tests  Say you test 17 year olds, you can\u0026#39;t just test the students and ignore the dropouts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJC"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/4316975215559544798"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/4316975215559544798"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1524052108689#c4316975215559544798","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/18\/2018 04:48:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6628375561860635779"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-18T03:30:36.810-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-18T03:30:36.810-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The number of people murdered on South African far..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The number of people murdered on South African farms has been disputed. There have been claims of a number of white farmers murdered  that are several times the released numbers of total murders on farms.  That said South Africa has a very serious violence problem and whites seem to be the victims of most of the murders on farms. But the murder rate in black urban areas is also high.\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt seems to be a very serious but overstated problem. But I am not in a position to check the reliability of the sources that I was able to find quickly."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/6628375561860635779"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/6628375561860635779"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1524047436810#c6628375561860635779","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Lloyd Flack"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00832519369660328832"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"24","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/4108\/914\/1600\/649295\/blogpict2.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1571382465"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/18\/2018 03:30:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8707030363843318381"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-18T01:24:31.429-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-18T01:24:31.429-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;NO. They were SETTLERS not immigrants. That\u0026..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;NO. They were SETTLERS not immigrants. That\u0026#39;s \u0026quot;proposition nation\u0026quot; bullshit. There is a massive difference between the European SETTERS and the post 1965 immigrants.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETomayto, tomahto. The point is that no person of European descent in the US can claim inherent ownership of the land by virtue of their race originating here. Your ancestors and mine all came over long after the land was already inhabited by another race. The idea that you\u0026#39;re going to try to separate the races and cordon off parts of the US at this point is absurd on the face of it, and as I said, if you were going to do it properly you\u0026#39;d get on a plane to Europe and seek out your own ethnic-sub-group and build your state there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;but it nevertheless remains that the greatest challenge for humanity is to solve the problem of group differences and racial tribalism.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd your solution seems to be to make tribalism more blatant and pronounced. Like burning the village in order to save it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso, I\u0026#39;ll see your \u0026quot;feral savages\u0026quot; and raise you gun-waving militia compounds in the northwest woods and Klan members in the South. Blacks have no monopoly on dealing violence to people who stray into dangerous territory."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/8707030363843318381"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/8707030363843318381"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1524039871429#c8707030363843318381","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/18\/2018 01:24:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3879601038133504997"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-18T01:20:37.303-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-18T01:20:37.303-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;But this comment makes my blood boil because..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;But this comment makes my blood boil because of its stupidity:\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI\u0026#39;d be willing to bet it makes your blood boil more because it doesn\u0026#39;t accept your excuses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;If I knew nothing about hereditarianism but only knew the history of multi-ethnic societies and the history of the fate of Whites when they lose their countries to blacks... If I knew nothing but what is going on in South Africa TODAY as they increase their racially based land seizures and push ever further towards white genocide... That would be ENOUGH to SANELY argue for white ethno-states and racial SURVIVAL. Again you people are engaging in a massive inversion of the normal as the deranged and the sane as the immoral. You\u0026#39;re doing what Leftists always do: pathologize biologically normal behavior. \u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpeaking of the \u0026quot;Objectivists we always criticize\u0026quot;, this framing of things in terms of pathology and sane vs. deranged, that\u0026#39;s CLASSIC Randspeak.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELook, humans have all sorts of responses that are natural, but in a civilized society are not desirable. It would be natural to lust after a beautiful woman, but a civilized society discourages acting on that lust without regard to the woman\u0026#39;s own feelings. You may envy another man\u0026#39;s wealth and that would be natural, but theft is discouraged. It may be natural to want to physically attack a person that frightens you, but unless they actually are threatening you, you ought not to act on that impulse, even though it might be the most natural thing in the world.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESeeing other races as a thing apart from you and wishing to sequester yourselves away may have some natural foundation in the human brain, but again, not everything that is \u0026quot;natural\u0026quot; is good or desirable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat\u0026#39;s going on in South Africa is terrible, to be sure. But it would be alarmist to  draw some kind of conclusion from these things you present to say the white race - such as it is, as if it were some kind of monolith - is in danger of extinction. Everyone involved in this discussion will be long dead before that could ever come to pass. And what exactly is it that you are wishing to preserve? Skin color itself? Vitamin D production? Some nebulous idea of \u0026quot;white culture\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;white values\u0026quot;? The problem with the whole idea is that there\u0026#39;s no clear-cut idea of the thing that is supposedly at risk of disappearing, or if there is, if it could actually be so easily destroyed it\u0026#39;s ultimately not really of much value.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELook at music in the US. Ever since black musicians incorporated some white folk music elements into the blues, ever since jazz, blues, and other black musics inspired rock and roll, and so on, the cultures of white music and black music have been a yin-yang mixture. What then is a purely white form of music? Classical? What do you try to preserve? What do you listen to on the radio - Wagner and Beethoven?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can\u0026#39;t preserve any culture by trying to prevent change. We are not anywhere near the same culture that white people had a hundred years ago. The white ethno-state is not a path to salvation, it\u0026#39;s a formula for stagnation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/3879601038133504997"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/3879601038133504997"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1524039637303#c3879601038133504997","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/18\/2018 01:20:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4464925035099529884"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-17T16:01:02.769-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-17T16:01:02.769-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"And to the extend that libertarianism tries to red..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"And to the extend that libertarianism tries to reduce human relationships to matters of property it goes against human nature and seeks something appalling.\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd Madmax\u0026#39;s hostility to the lower classes and to anyone that he thinks would not do well under libertarianism is showing through.\u003Cbr \/\u003EOh, and I\u0026#39;m a centrist who tries to balance competing moral issues and thinks ideological purity is generally a bad idea. "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/4464925035099529884"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/4464925035099529884"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1524006062769#c4464925035099529884","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Lloyd Flack"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00832519369660328832"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"24","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/4108\/914\/1600\/649295\/blogpict2.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1571382465"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/17\/2018 04:01:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-654080161614554939"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-17T15:41:20.840-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-17T15:41:20.840-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I look forward to the mongrelization of humanity. ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I look forward to the mongrelization of humanity. One more source of conflict will have been eliminated.\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd I think Madmar is looking for reasons to make a big deal out of race. I think it provides someone to feel superior to and to scapegoat. "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/654080161614554939"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/654080161614554939"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1524004880840#c654080161614554939","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Lloyd Flack"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00832519369660328832"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"24","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/4108\/914\/1600\/649295\/blogpict2.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1571382465"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/17\/2018 03:41:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2865780259849456621"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-17T12:14:57.840-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-17T12:14:57.840-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"One more:\n\n\u0026quot;I deal with individual members or..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"One more:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;I deal with individual members or other races, not the race as a whole.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is so ignorant I understand why Larry Auster and all the smart and well read Paleo-right wingers used to make fun of me when I said the same crap a decade ago. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYOU DO DEAL WITH THE WHOLE RACE. Your taxes go to sustain them. Your college admissions (or those of your children) is affected by their presence. The value of your dollar is affected by the inflation necessary to continue the subsidy that sustains their existence. Your real estate prices are affected by the distance ( or lack of it) from the enclaves of the those low IQ races. If you step foot out of the nice white (or predominately white) area that you are caged in then you could suffer anything from robbery to BRUTAL SLAUGHTER if you are unfortunate enough to encounter one of the feral savages which comprise a not insignificant percentage of the black race. Indeed your very society is moving backwards instead of outwards towards the stars because we have the albatross around our necks that is the burden of dealing with the African and Meso-American races. I could go on for pages. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow if you are a libertarian you can scream at me about eliminating the welfare state or ending the Federal Reserve or whatever pro-liberty policy you can name. Or if you are a leftist (god help you) then you can harangue me with even more Rawlsian solutions. But the fact remains, we know no way of dealing with these difference politically because there is not the will to create a libertarian social order and it is not within human nature to create an egalitarian (leftist) one. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo my point: YOU DO DEAL WITH THE WHOLE RACE and you\u0026#39;re a fool for thinking that you don\u0026#39;t. I\u0026#39;ll tell you what Larry Auster told me 9 years ago. \u0026quot;Your libertarian beliefs are an example of delusional utopianism. They also show why individualism is not grounded in human nature. Grow up.\u0026quot;"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/2865780259849456621"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/2865780259849456621"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523992497840#c2865780259849456621","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"madmax"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14375140131881725965"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-144133513"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/17\/2018 12:14:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1767660566389893421"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-17T11:57:21.394-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-17T11:57:21.394-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The level of commentary here continues to be uninf..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The level of commentary here continues to be uninformed, even that of Mr. \u0026quot;specialist in human nature\u0026quot; himself Greg Nyquist. But this comment makes my blood boil because of its stupidity:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;I mean, since the whole point in bringing the race\/IQ issue up in a non-clinical discussion such as this is virtually ALWAYS to justify some kind of discrimination or apartheid, it just never comes up without someone angling to lobby for \u0026quot;the white ethnostate\u0026quot; or something similar\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf I knew nothing about hereditarianism but only knew the history of multi-ethnic societies and the history of the fate of Whites when they lose their countries to blacks... If I knew nothing but what is going on in South Africa TODAY as they increase their racially based land seizures and push ever further towards white genocide... That would be ENOUGH to SANELY argue for white ethno-states and racial SURVIVAL. Again you people are engaging in a massive inversion of the normal as the deranged and the sane as the immoral. You\u0026#39;re doing what Leftists always do: pathologize biologically normal behavior. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Do I, living in a land of virtually NOTHING BUT IMMIGRANTS\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENO. They were SETTLERS not immigrants. That\u0026#39;s \u0026quot;proposition nation\u0026quot; bullshit. There is a massive difference between the European SETTERS and the post 1965 immigrants. Jesus Christ, learn your history. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Don\u0026#39;t overestimate your numbers. Don\u0026#39;t assume you speak for the majority of white people.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDon\u0026#39;t underestimate your opposition. Also, get back to me in three or four generations when Whites become a minority and the country becomes hostile to them. Let\u0026#39;s see what politics looks like then. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;For my part, I don\u0026#39;t think any of this science is sufficient to change or alter basic human rights for any sub-group of humans. If IQ were a good enough reason in and of itself, then one would have to justify discrimination against any individual whose IQ fell under some benchmark score, white people included. But somehow white identitarianism doesn\u0026#39;t seem to start by tending its own garden...\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is why libertarianism as it is now is going nowhere. If it does not integrate racial science it will have no future. There are answers to this objection largely having to do with suppression of the breeding of the lower classes but it nevertheless remains that the greatest challenge for humanity is to solve the problem of group differences and racial tribalism. The best libertarian scholars to date (Misesean\/Rothbardian\/Hoppean traditions) have conducted a very important research project aimed at solving the problems inherent in governments, reducing human interaction down to private property and creating a society free from parasitism, larceny and predation. But they HAVE NOT solved the problem of how to create that society nor how to overcome racial differences. Racial Conservatism is therefore an ABSOLUTE NECESSITY for the near future when it becomes clear that multi-racialism is going to fail. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is you people who are \u0026quot;Contra Human Nature\u0026quot;. Again, you are no different than the Objectivists you criticize. "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/1767660566389893421"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/1767660566389893421"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523991441394#c1767660566389893421","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"madmax"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14375140131881725965"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-144133513"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/17\/2018 11:57:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1808591135910433836"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-17T08:13:58.211-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-17T08:13:58.211-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I\u0026#39;m not an expert on Ireland, but by he early ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EI\u0026#39;m not an expert on Ireland, but by he early 70s it was still poor, rural and non-industrialized. So it could be an example of an accelerated Flynn Effect. Ireland did in a few decades what it took other countries 100 years.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt could be an accelerated Flynn Effect, but how do we explain the Flynn Effect? Keep in mind, Irish IQ was rising in accordance with Irish income. So how do we explain this? I\u0026#39;m not sure we can -- which, again, should counsel a fair degree of intellectual humility.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EOne thing I\u0026#39;ve noted about national IQ scores is that they jump around a bit and that the outliers tend to be the lower scores.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis raises another issue: imprecision of testing. IQ is considered among the best measurable social science we have at our disposal, but that really isn\u0026#39;t saying much. The fact is, not much in the social sciences can be measured all that effectively. That\u0026#39;s especially true of environmentally\/cultural factors. Very hard to measure, very hard to determine, accurately and objectively, their affect on social outcomes, very hard to know what, if anything, can be done about them. But just because some phenomenon is difficult to measure, or document, or isolate as a variable doesn\u0026#39;t mean you can assume it doesn\u0026#39;t exist. The notion that what can\u0026#39;t be measured isn\u0026#39;t real constitutes a gross excess of scientism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/1808591135910433836"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/1808591135910433836"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523978038211#c1808591135910433836","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/17\/2018 08:13:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4035383362911675620"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-17T02:57:18.683-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-17T02:57:18.683-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The proportion of variation in IQ that heredity is..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The proportion of variation in IQ that heredity is responsible for will vary depending on how much variation in upbringing there is.  If there is little variation between groups then most of the variation will be due to heredity. If there is a lot then the proportion due to heredity will be less.\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut it really does not matter much to me. I identify mostly with my culture and nation and not so much with my race. I deal with individual members or other races, not the race as a whole.\u003Cbr \/\u003EAverage differences between races are relevant to what you can realistically expect out of social programs. However the consequences of being wrong if the differences are small are worse than the consequences of being wrong if the differences are large. Thus assuming rough equality is the safer choice if there is considerable doubt. And I do not trust the motives of those arguing that there are large differences. There is too much scope for confirmation bias and hence before I will spend a lot of effort examining claims of large racial differences I need to know that those claiming that there are large differences want to be wrong."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/4035383362911675620"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/4035383362911675620"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523959038683#c4035383362911675620","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Lloyd Flack"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00832519369660328832"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"24","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/4108\/914\/1600\/649295\/blogpict2.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1571382465"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/17\/2018 02:57:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6989716136108105701"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-16T18:19:41.657-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-16T18:19:41.657-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Greg.  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So it could be an example of an accelerated Flynn Effect.  Ireland did in a few decades what it took other countries 100 years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso, that\u0026#39;s the lowest score.  If you drop the lowest and the highest (PISA) score you get a definite trend upwards, but not so dramatic.  (90-97)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.unz.com\/runz\/raceiq-irish-iq-chinese-iq\/"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/1640561056393368042"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/1640561056393368042"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523882418916#c1640561056393368042","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/16\/2018 05:40:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7722921218331124981"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-16T04:44:43.284-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-16T04:44:43.284-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Lloyd\n\n\u0026quot;But with race and IQ what we have to ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Lloyd\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;But with race and IQ what we have to do is admit ignorance. We cannot adequately disentangle hereditary influences from those of upbringing and should be willing to admit that.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is incorrect.  Using studies of twins adopted into different families at birth we can determine that IQ is largely hereditary - probably close to 70 percent.  And as Jensen said, the default position is what accounts for the differences within groups most likely causes the differences between groups.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou are also ignoring the other evidence such as admixture studies, brain size differences in ethnic groups, regression to the mean and Spearman\u0026#39;s hypothesis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGreg,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI don\u0026#39;t know if that number for Ireland is correct.  Assume it is, it can probably be explained by regression to the mean.  Ireland had large outmigration for decades and immigrants tend to be middle class, which means higher IQ.  So it maybe that after the emigration stopped, Ireland\u0026#39;s IQ went back to its natural level.  Incidentally Ireland still isn\u0026#39;t producing scientists on the level of France and England.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf North Korea stopped enslaving its populace I wouldn\u0026#39;t be surprised if the North Korean IQ shot up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot; For those objecting to blacks on the basis of low IQ, what is there problem with blacks with IQ\u0026#39;s higher than the average white? What about the 15% or so of white with IQs below 83? Again, for those who have a problem with low IQ individuals, why don\u0026#39;t they have a problem with whites with low IQs? \u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI\u0026#39;m not objecting to blacks, just pointing out the reality of IQ differences.  A concern though is regression to the mean.  High IQ blacks will tend to produce lower IQ children.  That\u0026#39;s why you get the Shaker Heights phenomenon.  Shaker Heights is a wealthy black suburb of Cleveland.  Its schools aren\u0026#39;t Cleveland but they aren\u0026#39;t as good as the typical white school.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI\u0026#39;d put it this way - just because groups have low floors doesn\u0026#39;t mean they have equally high ceilings.  The IQs of Blacks didn\u0026#39;t shoot up when they moved North or as the Black\/White culture in the US converged starting in the 50s.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/7722921218331124981"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/7722921218331124981"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523879083284#c7722921218331124981","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/16\/2018 04:44:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7279181992268132578"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-15T13:46:41.668-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-15T13:46:41.668-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Occam\u0026#39;s razor is a rule of thumb rather than a..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Occam\u0026#39;s razor is a rule of thumb rather than a rigorous method. It is choose the explanation that makes the least assumptions. But with race and IQ what we have to do is admit ignorance. We cannot adequately disentangle hereditary influences from those of upbringing and should be willing to admit that.\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then the is the question whether reducing the measure of intelligence to a single number is very useful if one is looking at social questions. There are multiple forms of intelligence and IQ tests do not measure all of them. In particular they do not measure understanding of others and understanding of oneself. And these unmeasured forms of intelligence are arguably the ones which have the most influence on socially undesirable behaviour.\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen we can identify the average difference between races in intelligence do not be surprised if the differences are not in the same direction for all forms of intelligence.\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile since race is at best a very crude predictor of intelligence it is not much use when we deal with any individual."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/7279181992268132578"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/7279181992268132578"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523825201668#c7279181992268132578","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Lloyd Flack"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00832519369660328832"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"24","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/4108\/914\/1600\/649295\/blogpict2.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1571382465"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/15\/2018 01:46:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7265312816467944560"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-15T12:39:16.577-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-15T12:39:16.577-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"For my part, I don\u0026#39;t think any of this science..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EFor my part, I don\u0026#39;t think any of this science is sufficient to change or alter basic human rights for any sub-group of humans.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EExactly correct. But there\u0026#39;s another side to this issue which needs to be mentioned. The reason why these statistical averages of IQ of certain racial groups are seen as a valid objection to living with those groups is because certain types of socially dysfunctionally behavior statistically correlate with low IQ. However, there\u0026#39;s a logical problem here which illustrates the treacherous nature of statistical averages. If IQ is the primary source of one\u0026#39;s objection to certain racial groups, wouldn\u0026#39;t it make more sense, on a strictly logical point of view, to discriminate on the basis of IQ rather than race? Because as it so happens there\u0026#39;s a wide range of IQ within social groups that statistical averages tend to conceal. Seven million blacks in America do better on IQ tests than the average white. For those objecting to blacks on the basis of low IQ, what is there problem with blacks with IQ\u0026#39;s higher than the average white? What about the 15% or so of white with IQs below 83? Again, for those who have a problem with low IQ individuals, why don\u0026#39;t they have a problem with whites with low IQs? "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/7265312816467944560"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/7265312816467944560"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523821156577#c7265312816467944560","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/15\/2018 12:39:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-130589017048950664"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-15T11:48:57.739-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-15T11:48:57.739-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"At some point doesn\u0026#39;t our friend Mr. Occam pro..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EAt some point doesn\u0026#39;t our friend Mr. Occam provide the most reasonable explanation?\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI\u0026#39;m not actually a big fan of Occam\u0026#39;s razor. The simplest explanation isn\u0026#39;t always the correct one because reality can be very complicated. Furthermore, no one is forcing us to come to a conclusion. Sometimes the best solution is to admit there\u0026#39;s a great deal we don\u0026#39;t know. In the early 1970s, the average Irish IQ was 87 (close to the average black IQ in the U.S.), but today Ireland\u0026#39;s PISA scores (essentially an academic tests that can approximate an IQ test) are roughly the same as France and Britain. How is this to be explained? The fact is, there\u0026#39;s still quite a bit we don\u0026#39;t know. We don\u0026#39;t know how much to assign to the genetics and how much to assign to environment\/culture, nor do we know much about how environment and culture may affect the development of the individuals genetically determined intelligence potential. Now given the controversial nature of this subject, it would behoove all of us to approach the issue with some measure of intellectual humility and not be so quick to make sweeping and quite possibly unwarranted conclusions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/130589017048950664"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/130589017048950664"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523818137739#c130589017048950664","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/15\/2018 11:48:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3403384879995035176"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-15T09:30:48.269-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-15T09:30:48.269-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;So what is your explanation for the high IQ ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;So what is your explanation for the high IQ of Ashkenazi Jews?\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWho are you asking?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf it\u0026#39;s me, the Anonymous directly before your post, then I don\u0026#39;t have an explanation, and really don\u0026#39;t need to. This question is pretty much a sidestep. Whether I can explain it or not doesn\u0026#39;t make any difference, nor would the actual explanation be all that important. The true question worth asking is, if this race\/IQ thing were somehow proved true, what then should be done about it?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt seems to me that the people touting race\/IQ science the most vigorously in non-clinical discussions such as these do so in order to find a supposedly rational, \u0026quot;objective\u0026quot; reason to discriminate, as if it somehow isn\u0026#39;t racism if it can be dressed up with some research.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor my part, I don\u0026#39;t think any of this science is sufficient to change or alter basic human rights for any sub-group of humans. If IQ were a good enough reason in and of itself, then one would have to justify discrimination against any individual whose IQ fell under some benchmark score, white people included. But somehow white identitarianism doesn\u0026#39;t seem to start by tending its own garden...\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/3403384879995035176"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/3403384879995035176"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523809848269#c3403384879995035176","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/15\/2018 09:30:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4867356054309420789"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-15T08:02:43.739-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-15T08:02:43.739-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"So what is your explanation for the high IQ of Ash..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"So what is your explanation for the high IQ of Ashkenazi Jews?"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/4867356054309420789"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/4867356054309420789"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523804563739#c4867356054309420789","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/15\/2018 08:02:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6702506408521376223"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-15T07:48:43.690-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-15T07:48:43.690-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I just gotta point out this:\n\n\u0026quot;Unfortunately ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I just gotta point out this:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Unfortunately the B\/W IQ gap in the US is the most studied gap, which makes people who discuss race\/IQ sound like racists, but there are other gaps.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd without any sense of irony, in the same entry:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;At some point doesn\u0026#39;t our friend Mr. Occam provide the most reasonable explanation?\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI mean, since the whole point in bringing the race\/IQ issue up in a non-clinical discussion such as this is virtually ALWAYS to justify some kind of discrimination or apartheid, it just never comes up without someone angling to lobby for \u0026quot;the white ethnostate\u0026quot; or something similar, Mr. Occam would have to say something about THAT as well."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/6702506408521376223"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/6702506408521376223"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523803723690#c6702506408521376223","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/15\/2018 07:48:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-9008789276874663052"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-15T07:44:21.443-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-15T07:44:21.443-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Incidentally, the claim that we can\u0026#39;t conclude..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Incidentally, the claim that we can\u0026#39;t conclude that group differences in intelligence are due to genes until we find the genetic mechanism works in reverse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy believe that the gaps are cultural when no one has shown how (in the case of the B\/W gap) slavery, Jim Crow or contemporary racism can depress IQ 15 points?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat cultural mechanism explains the evident gaps in IQ?"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/9008789276874663052"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/9008789276874663052"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523803461443#c9008789276874663052","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/15\/2018 07:44:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5060787224508153989"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-15T06:26:31.560-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-15T06:26:31.560-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Greg,\n\nTake the B\/W IQ gap.  It exists in the Sout..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Greg,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETake the B\/W IQ gap.  It exists in the South, in the North, in the Midwest (which never had slavery or Jim row).  It exists in Canada, in England, in Brazil, in the Caribbean.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf that\u0026#39;s all you know then it makes a strong genetic theory likely.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnfortunately the B\/W IQ gap in the US is the most studied gap, which makes people who discuss race\/IQ sound like racists, but there are other gaps.  I\u0026#39;ve read about studies which measure the IQ of second generation African and Asian immigrants to Europe and there IQs are only slightly higher than those in the native lands.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat aspect of culture explains this?  We don\u0026#39;t know how to raise IQ and all the methods such as Head Start have failed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt some point doesn\u0026#39;t our friend Mr. Occam provide the most reasonable explanation?"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/5060787224508153989"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/5060787224508153989"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523798791560#c5060787224508153989","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/15\/2018 06:26:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2030033494086667194"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-15T06:03:30.409-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-15T06:03:30.409-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"There was an article in the New York Times recentl..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"There was an article in the New York Times recently by a geneticist David Reich, who is politically on the left.  He said people should expect that races differ in intelligence and behavior.  He said that\u0026#39;s the way evolution works - it creates subspecies that differ in significant ways.  You\u0026#39;d basically have to deny the animal nature of man or be a creationist to think otherwise.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot; For starters we do not know what the genes affecting intelligence are and so any attempt to make comparisons between races in this matter are to put it mildly premature.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI don\u0026#39;t think the genes for height but it is pretty clear that groups differ in height and there is a substantial genetic component.  And there is lots of scientific evidence such as Spearman\u0026#39;s hypothesis, regression to the mean, etc. that makes a fairly strong hereditarianism fairly certain."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/2030033494086667194"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/2030033494086667194"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523797410409#c2030033494086667194","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/15\/2018 06:03:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5021111442531522559"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-15T01:28:04.824-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-15T01:28:04.824-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"With groups as large as races there is bound to be..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"With groups as large as races there is bound to be some difference on average on all traits. But whether the difference is non trivial is very different question. There are so many differences in environment and historical circumstances that genetic differences are not the first place that we should look when seeking explanations for how well they have done. For starters we do not know what the genes affecting intelligence are and so any attempt to make comparisons between races in this matter are to put it mildly premature."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/5021111442531522559"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/5021111442531522559"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523780884824#c5021111442531522559","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Lloyd Flack"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00832519369660328832"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"24","src":"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/4108\/914\/1600\/649295\/blogpict2.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1571382465"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/15\/2018 01:28:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1791404994270259138"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-14T09:30:51.528-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-14T09:30:51.528-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Mr. Nyquist - do you believe that all ethnic group..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EMr. Nyquist - do you believe that all ethnic groups have the same intelligence? Please tell me how human evolution resulted in all groups having the same intelligence.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStrictly speaking, groups don\u0026#39;t have intelligence. It\u0026#39;s the individuals that make up the group that manifest degrees of intelligence which correlates to scores on IQ tests. These scores can be statistically collated to reveal \u0026quot;group averages.\u0026quot; But these group averages don\u0026#39;t have anywhere near the significance that many people seem to believe. For there is quite a bit of variation of intelligence within groups, which means that making assessments about individuals based on the statistical averages of whatever groups they may happen to adventitiously belong to is, at the very least, bad manners. Who wants to be judged on such a basis? Nor are statistical averages necessarily a sure guide to group success or failure. East Asians feature a high statistical group average IQ than whites, yet white Euro-Civilization has achieved more in terms of science, technology, and art. Why is this? It\u0026#39;s probably due to cultural influences, particularly western individualism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EAnd do you believe the male\/female difference in aggression is cultural?\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese differences seem primarily genetic, but culture can dampen or intensify these genetic influences. Moreover, the actual difference in aggression between the sexes isn\u0026#39;t that much: apparently, in terms of percentages, it\u0026#39;s only 60\/40. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EYou say you are against the blank slate but when it comes to the most studied area of psychology which refutes blank slatism you punk out.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe fact that the blank slate is wrong doesn\u0026#39;t prove that strong hereditarianism is right. The manner in which genetics influences human traits and behavior is very complex. Not much is understood concerning the relation between genetics and culture\/environment . There appears to be a large measure of reciprocal causation going on between these two factors, which the human mind struggles to grasp. Furthermore, there\u0026#39;s the factor of volition, which science, based, as it is, on essential deterministic premises, can\u0026#39;t adequately elucidate."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/1791404994270259138"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/1791404994270259138"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523723451528#c1791404994270259138","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/14\/2018 09:30:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8451827077538929260"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-13T08:54:25.914-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-13T08:54:25.914-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Well, first, nobody claimed that the Irish \u0026quot;w..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Well, first, nobody claimed that the Irish \u0026quot;weren\u0026#39;t human\u0026quot;. Nor does the non-European thing make sense - after all, plenty of Chinese came in to work on the railroads and such. Is this some kind of sarcasm or joke I\u0026#39;m not getting, or are you really that dense?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn any case, just a few moments on Google could provide hours of references... here\u0026#39;s what seems like a decent, digestible overview.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/brokeassstuart.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/17\/a-history-of-anti-irish-racism-in-the-us\/"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/8451827077538929260"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/8451827077538929260"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523634865914#c8451827077538929260","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/13\/2018 08:54:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-326421944389237101"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-13T06:22:36.434-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-13T06:22:36.434-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Can I get some proof for the claim that Irish were..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Can I get some proof for the claim that Irish weren\u0026#39;t considered human?  They wouldn\u0026#39;t have been allowed in if they were even thought to be non-European."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/326421944389237101"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/326421944389237101"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523625756434#c326421944389237101","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/13\/2018 06:22:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5536241633350330834"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-13T01:51:27.330-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-13T01:51:27.330-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;DON\u0026#39;T FORCE THE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;DON\u0026#39;T FORCE THE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF WHITE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT WANT THIS\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile we\u0026#39;re on the subject of \u0026quot;Don\u0026#39;ts\u0026quot;:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDon\u0026#39;t overestimate your numbers. Don\u0026#39;t assume you speak for the majority of white people. Don\u0026#39;t complain about negative violent effects of one system when the proposed alternative is guaranteed to bring about its own share of negative violent effects.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDon\u0026#39;t expect to sway people with your arguments, or convince them that you\u0026#39;re \u0026quot;sane\u0026quot;, when you tacitly threaten \u0026quot;violence directed at you\u0026quot;.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is a difference between actively striving to live in a \u0026quot;multi-racial utopia\u0026quot; and simply not being overly bothered by there being other races nearby. You ought to  try it sometime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMy ancestors were Irish; a lot of people gloss over the history of anti-Irish discrimination in the US, and the attempts to classify the Irish immigrants as being an inferior species of human being. So now am I to take seriously the latest set of justifications for being an asshole? Do I, living in a land of virtually NOTHING BUT IMMIGRANTS, or descendants of immigrants, think there is any reasonable possibility of peaceably sorting out the American Melting Pot and getting everyone to fuck off to their own corners? Hardly. If the white racial hereditarians in North America really want their racial purity the first step ought to be to test their DNA and then piss off to whichever corner of Europe they most derive from. If that\u0026#39;s too much to ask, I don\u0026#39;t see why I, and the majority of citizens who don\u0026#39;t think ethnostates are a good or smart thing, ought to just idly let any old pack of dipshits inconvenience us by trying to start some ridiculous race war."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/5536241633350330834"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/5536241633350330834"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523609487330#c5536241633350330834","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/13\/2018 01:51:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6037503079512029232"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-12T11:30:12.114-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-12T11:30:12.114-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;Be that as it may, \u0026quot;white racial heredi..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;Be that as it may, \u0026quot;white racial hereditarians\u0026quot; mainly bring up the topic of race-based IQ as justification for what they really want, which is to discourage race-mixing and find a reason to segregate or discriminate.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI\u0026#39;ll reframe this. White racial hereditarians bring up the topic because they want to create societies based on the racial kinship model (ust like the North East Asians) that exclude non-whites. They want this because it is entirely natural and because it removes one of the greatest threats there is; the threat of violence or extermination at the hand of out-groups. There is great safety in numbers. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou see a healthy, evolutionary response to multi-racialism as some sort of irrational, demonic \u0026quot;racism\u0026quot; that is totally ungrounded and just outdated atavism. But the reality is that it is science based, history based, culture based and above all, its *sane*.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI say this to Nyquist, the supposed expert at human nature, and to every racial egalitarian in the comments: \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIF YOU WANT TO LIVE IN A MULTI-RACIAL UTOPIA, YOU SHOULDER THE BURDEN. DON\u0026#39;T FORCE THE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF WHITE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT WANT THIS TO SUFFER THROUH YOUR SCIENCE EXPERIMENT.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBe your own god-damned lab rats. And be prepared for violence directed at you when the shit hits the fan, which it will. "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/6037503079512029232"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/6037503079512029232"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523557812114#c6037503079512029232","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"madmax"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14375140131881725965"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-144133513"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/12\/2018 11:30:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-853531492370606660"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-12T09:21:59.644-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-12T09:21:59.644-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I\u0026#39;ve heard that plenty have advanced degrees f..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I\u0026#39;ve heard that plenty have advanced degrees from Nigeria but how many from US Universities?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOf course this could be due to selective migration.  "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/853531492370606660"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/853531492370606660"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523550119644#c853531492370606660","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/12\/2018 09:21:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8717787359733085464"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-12T09:21:52.775-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-12T09:21:52.775-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;There is no problem with confirmation bias. ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;There is no problem with confirmation bias. Most white racial hereditarians were raised to believe that all groups were equal. They agree that East Asians have higher IQs than whites.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBe that as it may, \u0026quot;white racial hereditarians\u0026quot; mainly bring up the topic of race-based IQ as justification for what they really want, which is to discourage race-mixing and find a reason to segregate or discriminate. The argument is never \u0026quot;oh, here\u0026#39;s a difference, so let\u0026#39;s use this data to figure out to help out our supposedly disadvantaged fellow man,\u0026quot; it\u0026#39;s \u0026quot;don\u0026#39;t allow the white race to be contaminated!\u0026quot; or some other justification for treating non-whites poorly - when it has not yet actually been fully established that race is the primary determining factor for IQ. \u0026quot;White racial hereditarians\u0026quot; are also notable for ignoring, denying, or downplaying all countering evidence, which itself is indicative of bias.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo put it another way, if racial IQ studies showed no marked difference between the races, \u0026quot;white racial hereditarians\u0026quot; wouldn\u0026#39;t bring them up, ever, because it\u0026#39;s the agenda that drives which science they fall behind, not the science that determines their agenda."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/8717787359733085464"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/8717787359733085464"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523550112775#c8717787359733085464","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/12\/2018 09:21:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2709102501924450783"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-12T06:56:55.597-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-12T06:56:55.597-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Immigrants from Nigeria (you know, Black people) h..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Immigrants from Nigeria (you know, Black people) have more advanced degrees (earned at American universities) when compared to other immigrant groups such as Europeans or Asians.  This fact alone proves that the idea that IQ is tied to race is faulty.  There has to be another factor at work here besides how a person made out in the lucky sperm club.  Such as strong family connection, proper diet, and an emphasis on education as a pathway to success.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/2709102501924450783"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/2709102501924450783"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523541415597#c2709102501924450783","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Eric"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07366389218759511353"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1529032317"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/12\/2018 06:56:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6405556622221710478"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-11T19:39:28.771-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-11T19:39:28.771-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Mr. Nyquist - do you believe that all ethnic group..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Mr. Nyquist - do you believe that all ethnic groups have the same intelligence?  Please tell me how human evolution resulted in all groups having the same intelligence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd do you believe the male\/female difference in aggression is cultural?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou say you are against the blank slate but when it comes to the most studied area of psychology which refutes blank slatism you punk out."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/6405556622221710478"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/6405556622221710478"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523500768771#c6405556622221710478","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/11\/2018 07:39:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3378072781682287486"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-11T19:19:12.180-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-11T19:19:12.180-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Just because white IQ can fluctuate doesn\u0026#39;t pr..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Just because white IQ can fluctuate doesn\u0026#39;t prove that there aren\u0026#39;t group\/ethnic differences in innate intelligence.  No one is arguing that the white\/other group difference doesn\u0026#39;t have some environmental component.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut take for example the high Ashkenazi-Jewish IQ.  They have a 15 point advantage over Sephardic Jews even though they go to the same schools in Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you believe that Australian Aborigines have the same innate IQs as Ashkenazi Jews then I don\u0026#39;t know what to say."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/3378072781682287486"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/3378072781682287486"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523499552180#c3378072781682287486","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/11\/2018 07:19:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5666128776154666525"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-11T18:46:42.305-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-11T18:46:42.305-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;No one study proves that group differences i..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;No one study proves that group differences in IQ have a genetic component. They are part of a number of lines of evidence that point to this as the most reasonable conclusion.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI wouldn\u0026#39;t be so quick to make that conclusion. Consider the following criticism of the \u0026quot;Strong IQ Hypothesis\u0026quot; (i.e., that IQ is overwhelmingly determined by genetics):\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/race-iq-and-wealth\/\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust because the blank slate view is wrong doesn\u0026#39;t make the strong genetic view right. Genetics and environment both play a role, as well, perhaps, as what might loosely be described as individual \u0026quot;initiative.\u0026quot;"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/5666128776154666525"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/5666128776154666525"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523497602305#c5666128776154666525","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"gregnyquist"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13653516868316854941"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2031857002"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/11\/2018 06:46:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8878315420971267248"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-11T15:49:14.737-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-11T15:49:14.737-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"There is no problem with confirmation bias.  Most ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"There is no problem with confirmation bias.  Most white racial hereditarians were raised to believe that all groups were equal.  They agree that East Asians have higher IQs than whites.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs far as Ashkenazai Jews go, I haven\u0026#39;t looked at the issue but from what I\u0026#39;ve read those early IQ tests have to be used with caution. It\u0026#39;s been estimated that most immigrants who were tested might never have spoken English or used a pencil.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGroup differences in intelligence do matter.  Whites are constantly told that they are responsible for low Black academic achievement or poverty.  We now know that these differences are most entirely due to genetics.  We should stop spending trillions of dollars trying to increase Black academic success via Head Start, etc.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJC"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/8878315420971267248"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/8878315420971267248"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523486954737#c8878315420971267248","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/11\/2018 03:49:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3856354823061708654"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-11T09:38:07.113-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-11T09:38:07.113-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The problem is, \u0026quot;the most reasonable conclusi..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The problem is, \u0026quot;the most reasonable conclusion\u0026quot; is not an objective standard. If one has an emotional bias against non-white races, and\/or race mixing, then it would be very easy to fall into the old confirmation bias trap.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe article linked above does make a good point in that one should not simply dismiss actual science because it disagrees with one\u0026#39;s own moral outlook; but by the same token one should be careful of embracing unquestionably any such science simply because it reinforces one\u0026#39;s preferred narrative. (In fact, one might say that if a supposed scientific fact is being promoted and repeated by a political movement as propaganda for a political goal, the obligation is to very deeply question that science, and yes, that applies to all sides.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe article mentions the Ashkenazi Jews; I remember reading an article about a study done long ago by a scientist who measured the IQ of Ashkenazi immigrants and found them to average far below that of the average white person - now, years later, they are found to be ABOVE whites. If we accept today\u0026#39;s study as being superior, we either have to concede the earlier study was greatly flawed or we have to allow for some possibility that IQ can be raised dramatically through factors besides genetics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot long ago, there was a bit of a flurry over some statistics related to the overall drop in crime rates in the US, as it was pointed out that the rise and fall correlate to the usage of lead additives in gasoline - that is, as the lead was being released into the environment, crime rates rose, and after the lead was removed from gas and it began to fade from the environment, crime rates began to fall - the implication being that lead was being absorbed by young children, and as a result their IQ would be affected, leading to a generation of people more prone to commit crimes. An additional theory posited that since poorer neighborhoods would do a poorer job of cleaning such contaminants from the environment, any lead effect would be more dramatic and longer-lasting in the people living in those areas - i.e., non-whites. Now nobody has actually conclusively PROVED anything in regards to all this data, but it is a plausible theory that could account for IQ differences, if you choose to be open to that kind of \u0026quot;line of evidence\u0026quot;. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd still the larger question remains. Even if it were true, what is the best course of action to take because of it? For example, if IQ is hereditary, we do know that regardless of trends, there are some pretty low-IQ white individuals, and some fairly high-IQ non-whites. If one is truly concerned with giving one\u0026#39;s children a leg up, IQ-wise, then the sensible thing would be for a low-IQ individual to mate with any high-IQ person, regardless of skin color. In this case, the science of hereditary IQ does not serve the political ideal of racial purity and I suspect someone would weasel up some reason why the science suddenly is immaterial in such a scenario..."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/3856354823061708654"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/3856354823061708654"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523464687113#c3856354823061708654","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/11\/2018 09:38:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8840536796057018863"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-11T05:01:56.035-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-11T05:01:56.035-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"No one study proves that group differences in IQ h..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"No one study proves that group differences in IQ have a genetic component.  They are part of a number of lines of evidence that point to this as the most reasonable conclusion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis article points to additional evidence:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttp:\/\/quillette.com\/2017\/06\/02\/getting-voxed-charles-murray-ideology-science-iq\/\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJC\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/8840536796057018863"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/8840536796057018863"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523448116035#c8840536796057018863","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/11\/2018 05:01:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-908284257341273271"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-11T02:03:32.748-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-11T02:03:32.748-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;Further research is needed to clarify whethe..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;Further research is needed to clarify whether this reflects genetic causation or genetic ancestry-related environmental confounders.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn other words, is this genetics, or is it tangentially related to genetics, such as non-white children being disproportionately raised in poorer neighborhoods, or some other such factor?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo while statistically race may be a \u0026quot;useful predictor\u0026quot;, this study does NOT prove an actual direct causal link between race and IQ.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat\u0026#39;s the problem with studies such as these - people with agendas tend to cherry pick a few points and extrapolate them far further than the studies actually go.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat\u0026#39;s more, the real question still remains: even if it did, so what?"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/908284257341273271"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/908284257341273271"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523437412748#c908284257341273271","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/11\/2018 02:03:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6373585753216999818"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-10T06:24:08.748-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-10T06:24:08.748-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Sorry - here is the study,\n\nhttps:\/\/docs.google.co..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Sorry - here is the study,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/docs.google.com\/drawings\/d\/10tnud1f23ZFVotNP186oZf0KLCMCB1bfEm4iYTzk0-k\/edit\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/6373585753216999818"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/6373585753216999818"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523366648748#c6373585753216999818","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/10\/2018 06:24:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6012142715397847331"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-10T06:22:22.587-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-10T06:22:22.587-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Above Madmax suggested the possibility of a study ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Above Madmax suggested the possibility of a study that did genetic testing of African-Americans to see if there is a correlation between the amount of European ancestry and IQ.  In fact, a study has been done and it shows that the higher the percentage of European ancestry for Blacks and Hispanics the higher the IQ.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESuch a study has been done and the results are that the more European an African-American or Hispanic-American is the higher the IQ.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJohn Clarke"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/6012142715397847331"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/5179361021194335848\/comments\/default\/6012142715397847331"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html?showComment=1523366542587#c6012142715397847331","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/objectivism-autopsy-part-3.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5179361021194335848","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/5179361021194335848","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/10\/2018 06:22:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-482225872597159769"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-02T23:36:19.537-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-02T23:36:19.537-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The TN SSLC exam is conducted by Tamilnadu State B..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The TN SSLC exam is conducted by Tamilnadu State Board of Secondary Education for class 10th \/ SSLC and + 2 \/ 12th\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/tnresults-nicc.in\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Ewww.tnresults.nic.in\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/2331554647079548647\/comments\/default\/482225872597159769"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/2331554647079548647\/comments\/default\/482225872597159769"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/slow-read-with-commentary-ethics-of_25.html?showComment=1522737379537#c482225872597159769","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08386024650811351023"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/slow-read-with-commentary-ethics-of_25.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2331554647079548647","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/2331554647079548647","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1454619238"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4\/02\/2018 11:36:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1773533980099468647"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-23T22:35:33.671-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-23T22:35:33.671-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;You didn\u0026#39;t even bother to provide eviden..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;You didn\u0026#39;t even bother to provide evidence that people have a right to an abortion to begin with.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy would I have to?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor one thing, legally, in the US at least, they already do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut if you mean proving people have an inherent right, then there is no particular evidence of fact that can be ever be provided whether they do or don\u0026#39;t, because such rights are moral constructs. There is no right one has simply by virtue of existing - any right can be removed by the application of force.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhether they SHOULD have the right is then a personal moral question. If we start from the assumption that people should begin with all rights to their own bodies, and people have no rights over other people\u0026#39;s bodies, then we begin with a baseline of a woman having the right to choose whether or not she ought to spend nine months as an incubator for a fetus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter that, any restriction we as a society put on people\u0026#39;s bodies ought to be justified in some way. I can\u0026#39;t lock you up in prison for no reason; there should be some sufficient justification for removing your right of freedom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou might argue that the fetus is its own person and thus the woman has no right to end its life, but the counter to that is that if the fetus is its own person then it likewise has no right to exist in the woman\u0026#39;s body, at her expense.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese are extreme positions, however, and a functioning society generally finds a way to compromise - in this case, making abortion legally more difficult in the third trimester. (Honestly, I\u0026#39;m not sure what the current state of abortion laws are today, but that\u0026#39;s how they used to be: you needed a special reason to get a late-term abortion.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Kind of like the Freedom From Religion Foundation and their desire to destroy war memorials built by veterans to honor their dead friends or threaten some small town with massive legal fees because they had the nerve to put a nativity scene in front of the Fire Department a week before Christmas?\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYeah, kind of like dredging up a completely irrelevant thing done by other people in order to deflect criticism away from your own bad handling of a situation. And it changes nothing. You\u0026#39;ll still have to reach an accord with people you probably dislike if you expect to get laws passed to your liking, and without that this whole discussion is fairly academic."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/1773533980099468647"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/1773533980099468647"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521869733671#c1773533980099468647","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/23\/2018 10:35:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6217053419293599666"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-23T14:02:10.033-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-23T14:02:10.033-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I think you\u0026#39;re either missing or trying to ign..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I think you\u0026#39;re either missing or trying to ignore my point.  I\u0026#39;m saying that there\u0026#39;s no firm evidence that anti-abortion laws CAUSE a decline in the illegitimacy rate.  All you\u0026#39;ve shown is that 1) that rate is lower in South Korea; and 2) they have anti-abortion laws.  Given that this \u0026quot;cause\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#39;t seem to have any effect in many other countries, you\u0026#39;re on very shaky ground to call it a cause at all.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn this regard, it\u0026#39;s interesting to compare Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland.  Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom with its liberal abortion laws, and has an illegitimacy rate of 43.2%.  The Republic of Ireland – a strongly Catholic Country where abortion is still illegal and where even contraceptives were illegal until 1980 – has an illegitimacy rate of 36.5%.   If there\u0026#39;s any “cause” in operation here, it must be a pretty weak one."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/6217053419293599666"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/6217053419293599666"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521838930033#c6217053419293599666","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gordon Burkowski"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/23\/2018 02:02:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8528739004452723967"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-23T05:16:29.562-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-23T05:16:29.562-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;Your presentation of these facts is not unbi..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;Your presentation of these facts is not unbiased (obviously), even if a statistic in and of itself may be free of bias. And in some cases your very sources are biased - you can\u0026#39;t really claim Brian Clowes as an impartial, fact-based observer, for example. How you think you\u0026#39;ve \u0026quot;proved\u0026quot; anything is a mystery.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is why I went to the trouble of quoting right-wing think tanks, left-wing think tanks, and the US Federal Government.  I am the only one here that has went to the trouble of quoting studies and posting statistics.  You have offered no evidence to you\u0026#39;re counterargument, but just point to my postings as somehow flawed. You didn\u0026#39;t even bother to provide evidence that people have a right to an abortion to begin with. Now if I was saying that the Earth was flat or only 6,000 years old, then I would have been flooded with scientific papers claiming otherwise.  In this case I haven\u0026#39;t.  (Gordon came close with pointing out other countries have high illegitimacy rates and have outlawed abortion.  Which even then falls flat because he is not considering South Korea.  They outlawed abortion in 1953, have a better infant mortality rate than Europe, and an illegitimacy rate that is less than ten percent.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;See, here\u0026#39;s one of your biggest hurdles: not being an dismissive asshole to the VERY PEOPLE YOU WILL HAVE TO CONVINCE to take your side.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKind of like the Freedom From Religion Foundation and their desire to destroy war memorials built by veterans to honor their dead friends or threaten  some small town with massive legal fees because they had the nerve to put a nativity scene in front of the Fire Department a week before Christmas?    "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/8528739004452723967"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/8528739004452723967"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521807389562#c8528739004452723967","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Eric"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07366389218759511353"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1529032317"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/23\/2018 05:16:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6074747581521208173"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-23T00:34:27.256-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-23T00:34:27.256-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;First the facts were biased, to which I prov..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;First the facts were biased, to which I proved otherwise.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWell, no, you didn\u0026#39;t, not really. Because this has dragged on over the course of several posts and several attempts to sidestep various points, it\u0026#39;s no longer convenient to detail and analyze every last word, but: Your presentation of these facts is not unbiased (obviously), even if a statistic in and of itself may be free of bias. And in some cases your very sources are biased - you can\u0026#39;t really claim Brian Clowes as an impartial, fact-based observer, for example. How you think you\u0026#39;ve \u0026quot;proved\u0026quot; anything is a mystery.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Then the facts didn\u0026#39;t matter because correlation doesn\u0026#39;t prove causation, to which I proved otherwise.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETechnically, YOU didn\u0026#39;t prove anything there, either, just quoted someone else who did the heavy lifting of actually constructing a theory for you. But even that paper is just that - a theory - subject to investigation an criticism. In other words, just because Janet Yellen has a pet theory and got it published, that does not actually make it true. (I mean, if Christians can argue against Darwin\u0026#39;s theories so vigorously, everything else is fair game.) Yellen\u0026#39;s theory is *plausable* - which is to say, there\u0026#39;s a reasonable attempt to show how one thing causes another beyond just throwing out some numbers and asserting them as proof - and it being plausible is at least a better standard of evidence than you were offering - but there\u0026#39;s a long way to go before it meets any rigorous standards for fact.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Now we are at the point where I am right, but its pointless.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe were always sort of at that point - not necessarily that you were right, but that most of it is pointless. This is a sidestep, because in making your glib little quip here you completely avoid addressing the actual issue at hand. Even if we were to stipulate to the idea of abortion being directly responsible for the downfall of whatever, that still doesn\u0026#39;t in any way affect the hurdles in front of the anti-abortion forces here and now, and in the future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Besides which, if well reasoned arguments backed up by evidence is pointless, then atheists really need to find a hobby and stop bothering people. Stamp collecting is nice, although fishing is my personal favorite.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESee, here\u0026#39;s one of your biggest hurdles: not being an dismissive asshole to the VERY PEOPLE YOU WILL HAVE TO CONVINCE to take your side. You can talk about the economic problems with abortion all you like, but in the end those economic problems will have to be weighed against a variety of other factors, like individual liberties. Some rights and problems take precedence over others. And, like I\u0026#39;ve stated before, you will have to make a convincing case that stopping abortion NOW will being about a change for the better that will outweigh its negative impacts. (And pointing at what was once in the past isn\u0026#39;t really that great of a predictor of how things will go down in the future. If abortion rights activists decades ago failed to accurately predict the impact on society, how can YOU claim to have any better foresight as to how society will react to a ban on abortion?)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis has nothing to do with whether or not you quote the Bible, but more to do with whether you can put yourself into the mind of a person with a different perspective than yourself. If you look at a young pregnant woman who\u0026#39;s having to make a tough decision about whether or not to carry a fetus to term, and you assume she\u0026#39;s only interested in having as much irresponsible sex as possible without consequences, then you sure aren\u0026#39;t going to get HER vote. And if you assume that secularists are only concerned about the impact abortion might have on their wallets, then I suspect you\u0026#39;ll find yourself mighty disappointed in the reception to your ideas."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/6074747581521208173"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/6074747581521208173"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521790467256#c6074747581521208173","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/23\/2018 12:34:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8488195999731544039"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-22T18:16:17.678-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-22T18:16:17.678-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I note the implicit admission that your argument d..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003EI note the implicit admission that your argument doesn\u0026#39;t seem to be valid for most countries in the world.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI also suspect that if the experience of other countries validated your position, you\u0026#39;d be singing a very different song."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/8488195999731544039"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/8488195999731544039"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521767777678#c8488195999731544039","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gordon Burkowski"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/22\/2018 06:16:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6603147650875666859"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-22T16:35:32.541-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-22T16:35:32.541-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Gordon, if you can point out a country that is the..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Gordon, if you can point out a country that is the same as or almost similar to the United States when it comes to Social Responsibilities, Culture, History and Economics yet has different abortion\/contraceptives laws, then I am willing to reconsider my position.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/6603147650875666859"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/6603147650875666859"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521761732541#c6603147650875666859","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Eric"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07366389218759511353"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1529032317"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/22\/2018 04:35:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8282872967615141027"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-22T16:19:20.490-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-22T16:19:20.490-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"(First posted on 3\/21\/2018 05:41:00 PM)\n\n\u0026quot;Bla..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"(First posted on 3\/21\/2018 05:41:00 PM)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Blanket comparisons between countries do not work.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPrecisely. But they have to if your argument is to make any sense. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf some countries have laws against abortion and less use of contraceptives but end with the same results in terms of births out of wedlock, your argument falls to the ground. That\u0026#39;s not even getting into the other kinds of antisocial behaviour which you throw into the mix - such as violence and poverty - which are even more resistant to your naive explanations. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou\u0026#39;re pretending to give a detailed sociological analysis - but listing all the things that piss you off does not establish causal relations between them. And it really, really doesn\u0026#39;t even hint at what you or anyone else can do about any of it. If moaning about it makes you feel better, that\u0026#39;s fine. But I think it\u0026#39;s the only benefit you\u0026#39;re going to get.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E3\/21\/2018 05:41:00 PM\u003Cbr \/\u003E "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/8282872967615141027"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/8282872967615141027"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521760760490#c8282872967615141027","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gordon Burkowski"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/22\/2018 04:19:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3783822603996638551"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-22T11:32:04.725-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-22T11:32:04.725-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Wow.  Talk about begging the question.\n\nI\u0026#39;m no..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Wow.  Talk about begging the question.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI\u0026#39;m not afraid of repeating myself, given that you ignored (or couldn\u0026#39;t answer) my main point:  \u0026quot;If some countries have laws against abortion and less use of contraceptives but end with the same results in terms of births out of wedlock, your argument falls to the ground.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow about dealing with that, instead of vaporing on about swamp travel?"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/3783822603996638551"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/3783822603996638551"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521743524725#c3783822603996638551","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gordon Burkowski"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/22\/2018 11:32:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8022828504103163913"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-22T08:48:46.575-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-22T08:48:46.575-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Burying your head in the sand and pretending that ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Burying your head in the sand and pretending that there is no problem or at the very least not understanding why the problem exists or how it came to be is beyond foolish.  Much like a man who had gotten lost in a swamp.  In his foolishness he decides to keep going forward deeper into the bog because going back to the point where he made the wrong turn off dry land would be too difficult.  Besides which, only a prude Bible-thumping reactionary would think it was a wrong turn to begin with, so forward it is!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;You\u0026#39;re pretending to give a detailed sociological analysis - but listing all the things that piss you off does not establish causal relations between them.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is an oversimplification of what I posted and is uncalled for.  This was not just my personal opinions, but quotes from studies done by the Brookings Institute, Heritage Foundation, the US Federal Reserve, and professors of Criminology.  My statistics were provided by the US Census Bureau and the FBI.   "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/8022828504103163913"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/8022828504103163913"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521733726575#c8022828504103163913","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Eric"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07366389218759511353"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1529032317"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/22\/2018 08:48:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4552220525829967390"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-21T16:46:40.466-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-21T16:46:40.466-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Comparing the US to different countries is like co..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Comparing the US to different countries is like comparing apples to oranges.  Both are fruit produced by trees and sold as juice, but are radically different in other regards.  An example of this would be Italy, Portugal, and France.  All three of which are Roman Catholic countries located on continental Europe, but if you look at the illegitimacy rate, all three are radically different.  From the numbers taken in 2010, Italy is better than the US, while Portugal is slightly worse, and France is really worse.  South Korea, who also beats all Europe when it comes to life expectancy, is far much better at less than ten percent. Comparing the US to Portugal is akin to comparing Vermont to Texas.  Blanket comparisons between countries do not work. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI primarily focus on America because I am an American and I do not want the country that I love and call home to fall into ruin.  Hence my primary focus as to what is better for here.   You have to keep in mind that there are long term social\/economic factors at work here.  Unless you are willing to completely scrap the social welfare system, then a sustainable population is necessary.  The child aborted today (or poverty stricken bastard) means one less contributing taxpayer and eventually less money for your Social Security Check.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(The illegitimate child and the immigrant both share the same characteristic in that both of them are drains on the System.  What we have in the US and in Europe can only work if you have more people pitching in than taking out.  As Milton Friedman once pointed out; you can have a welfare state or you can have open borders, but you cannot have both.)"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/4552220525829967390"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/4552220525829967390"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521676000466#c4552220525829967390","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Eric"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07366389218759511353"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1529032317"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/21\/2018 04:46:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3349067673907359082"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-21T13:41:05.646-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-21T13:41:05.646-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"As I\u0026#39;ve noted before, there are other countrie..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"As I\u0026#39;ve noted before, there are other countries on this planet besides the United States of America.  There are.  Really.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVirtually every country in Latin America except Uruguay has laws forbidding abortion in most cases.  And because of economic factors, contraception isn\u0026#39;t nearly as common as here.  In spite of this, well over half of all births are out of wedlock. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile, in European countries with liberal abortion laws and easily available contraception - such as Denmark, Britain and Sweden - between 45 and 55% of births are out of wedlock.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf your argument was valid, there would be sharply differing figures in the numbers from these two continents.  There aren\u0026#39;t.  If anything, the European figures are a little better.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYes, there has been a massive rise in births outside marriage – worldwide and in countries with radically different laws and value systems.  There are undoubtedly reasons for this.  But I doubt that any plausible analysis of this issue has much to do with the simplistic and American-oriented explanations which you are offering here."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/3349067673907359082"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/3349067673907359082"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521664865646#c3349067673907359082","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gordon Burkowski"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/21\/2018 01:41:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5221539502493167970"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-21T09:12:27.626-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-21T09:12:27.626-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"First the facts were biased, to which I proved oth..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"First the facts were biased, to which I proved otherwise.  Then the facts didn\u0026#39;t matter because correlation doesn\u0026#39;t prove causation, to which I proved otherwise.  Now we are at the point where I am right, but its pointless.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;How would you even sell it to secularists\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI have used nothing but well researched articles and valid sociological studies on the breakdown of the two parent home, one of which was written by our current Federal Reserve Chairman, Janet Yellen.  I have not used a single religious argument for my position.  Have I quoted the Bible at all during this debate?  No, I have not.  Besides which, if well reasoned arguments backed up by evidence is pointless, then atheists really need to find a hobby and stop bothering people.  Stamp collecting is nice, although fishing is my personal favorite.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/5221539502493167970"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/5221539502493167970"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521648747626#c5221539502493167970","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Eric"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07366389218759511353"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1529032317"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/21\/2018 09:12:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7136274005318997583"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-20T10:43:19.233-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-20T10:43:19.233-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Well, that\u0026#39;s a nice try at theorizing how it h..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Well, that\u0026#39;s a nice try at theorizing how it happened (how long did you have to search for it?) - though I suspect the abortion rate before abortion was legal may be higher than some people think, mainly because it wouldn\u0026#39;t be as well reported.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven if that were true, however, the problem is that now that the genie\u0026#39;s out of the bottle, so to speak, there\u0026#39;s still no viable plan for whatever it is you want to do, here and now, today.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is, do you honestly think that making abortion illegal (if you even could) would re-create some kind of \u0026quot;shotgun marriage\u0026quot; custom? That in today\u0026#39;s more liberal culture, you could just somehow make men more responsible, and make women withhold sex without that implicit promise? That custom was a product of its times, which I believe have irrevocably passed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow would you even sell it to secularists (since you opened this by saying you could make a secular case for stopping abortion)? You have to make a case that\u0026#39;s able to convince moderates to your cause, and you still haven\u0026#39;t really addressed the hurdle of justifying you telling another person (women, mostly) how to handle their pregnancies. You might be able - maybe - to get an all-Republican-controlled government to overturn Roe v. Wade and legislate to forbid abortions, but you can bet the other side of the political spectrum would then devote its time to overturning the overturn.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGood luck with that! As contentious as you\u0026#39;ve been, I\u0026#39;m sure you\u0026#39;ll be able to smooth-talk people right into joining your cause. Absolutely sure.\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/7136274005318997583"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/7136274005318997583"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521567799233#c7136274005318997583","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/20\/2018 10:43:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-8232146488082085349"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-19T12:52:33.119-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-19T12:52:33.119-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;Until the early 1970s, shotgun marriage was ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;Until the early 1970s, shotgun marriage was the norm in premarital sexual relations. The custom was succinctly stated by one San Francisco resident in the late 1960s: “If a girl gets pregnant you married her. There wasn’t no choice. So I married her.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince 1969, however, shotgun marriage has gradually disappeared (see table 1). For whites, in particular, the shotgun marriage rate began its decline at almost the same time as the reproductive technology shock. And the disappearance of shotgun marriages has contributed heavily to the rise in the out-of-wedlock birth rate for both white and black women. In fact, about 75 percent of the increase in the white out-of-wedlock first-birth rate, and about 60 percent of the black increase, between 1965 and 1990 is directly attributable to the decline in shotgun marriages. If the shotgun marriage rate had remained steady from 1965 to 1990, white out-of-wedlock births would have risen only 25 percent as much as they have. Black out-of-wedlock births would have increased only 40 percent as much.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat links liberalized contraception and abortion with the declining shotgun marriage rate? Before 1970, the stigma of unwed motherhood was so great that few women were willing to bear children outside of marriage. The only circumstance that would cause women to engage in sexual activity was a promise of marriage in the event of pregnancy. Men were willing to make (and keep) that promise for they knew that in leaving one woman they would be unlikely to find another who would not make the same demand. Even women who would be willing to bear children out-of-wedlock could demand a promise of marriage in the event of pregnancy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe increased availability of contraception and abortion made shotgun weddings a thing of the past. Women who were willing to get an abortion or who reliably used contraception no longer found it necessary to condition sexual relations on a promise of marriage in the event of pregnancy. But women who wanted children, who did not want an abortion for moral or religious reasons, or who were unreliable in their use of contraception found themselves pressured to participate in premarital sexual relations without being able to exact a promise of marriage in case of pregnancy. These women feared, correctly, that if they refused sexual relations, they would risk losing their partners. Sexual activity without commitment was increasingly expected in premarital relationships.\u0026quot; https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/research\/an-analysis-of-out-of-wedlock-births-in-the-united-states\/"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/8232146488082085349"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/8232146488082085349"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521489153119#c8232146488082085349","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Eric"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07366389218759511353"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1529032317"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/19\/2018 12:52:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-9043362549968845247"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-15T11:14:14.917-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-15T11:14:14.917-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;1940 Abortion is Illegal - 4% illegitimacy r..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;1940 Abortion is Illegal - 4% illegitimacy rate\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETODAY Abortion IS legal - 40% illegitimacy rate\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut again, that\u0026#39;s NOT PROOF. Correlation is not causation. The fact that the majority of criminals might like chocolate does not mean that chocolate causes crime, but that\u0026#39;s the kind of logic you\u0026#39;re presenting here. You have no workable hypothesis as to HOW one stat causes the other, you just throw them together and assume it must be so. All of your so-called evidence is like this, statistics with no context. It is not hard to come up with a reasonable counter-theory as to why these stats might be this way without blaming abortion itself:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor example (and I am not claiming this is necessarily 100% true, just that it MIGHT be true if all the evidence you give is of this kind): Back when abortion was illegal, that did not mean abortion never happened, just that it was kept quiet and done in \u0026quot;back alleys\u0026quot;, so people might have been more discreet about having abortions. Also, there was a greater stigma against unwed mothers, so that also was often a factor, with people hiding and lying about such things. Today, there is much less stigma about one-person parentage, and few except for a certain number up on their moral high-horse consider such kids \u0026quot;illegitimate\u0026quot; (as if they are somehow less of a person because through no fault of their own their parents didn\u0026#39;t marry). That might easily explain why the single-parent rate has increased while having little to do with the legality of abortion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou still don\u0026#39;t have any answer as to HOW stopping abortion would lower the rate of unwed parents! You don\u0026#39;t even try. That\u0026#39;s probably because you can\u0026#39;t have any answer that couldn\u0026#39;t be immediately countered. Do you think bringing more fetuses to term would magically make an irresponsible father become more responsible? I don\u0026#39;t, and there\u0026#39;s no rational reason to assume so. And spitting out more stats upon stats doesn\u0026#39;t change that."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/9043362549968845247"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/9043362549968845247"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521137654917#c9043362549968845247","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/15\/2018 11:14:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-2807187963926748249"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-15T10:40:36.784-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-15T10:40:36.784-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"This is cherry-picking of the worst kind.  Virtual..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"This is cherry-picking of the worst kind.  Virtually all - and I mean all - of the countries with the best life expectancy figures and child mortality figures have universal health care (\u0026quot;socialized medicine\u0026quot;, as you call it).  How about talking about the first 20 countries?  But of course, that wouldn\u0026#39;t fit the narrative, would it?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo surprise here:  health insurance arrangements in the U.S. are both morally and economically indefensible.  So its defenders have no choice but to play fast and loose with the facts. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/2807187963926748249"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/2807187963926748249"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521135636784#c2807187963926748249","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gordon Burkowski"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/15\/2018 10:40:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7354397594930836255"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-15T09:58:32.076-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-15T09:58:32.076-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I am a veteran, and jokes about the VA are more th..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I am a veteran, and jokes about the VA are more than justifiable.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you look at the numbers for Under 5 Mortality Rates, the US comes in at #32.  Which looks bad, however this does not make a very good case for socialized medicine.  United Kingdom comes in at #24, while Canada comes in at #28.  Greece is  #19, which means you would have a better chance of living to age 5 then #23 Switzerland.  "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/7354397594930836255"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/7354397594930836255"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521133112076#c7354397594930836255","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Eric"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07366389218759511353"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1529032317"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/15\/2018 09:58:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-4604652133863127118"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-15T08:55:07.712-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-15T08:55:07.712-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Among the countries of the world, the U.S. ranks e..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Among the countries of the world, the U.S. ranks either 31st or or 43rd in life expectancy - depending whose numbers you pick.  Infant mortality rates in the U.S. rank 35th or 38th.  In other words, there are 34 countries out there where a child has a better chance of making it to his or her 5th birthday than one born in the United States of America.  Those figures are a disgrace.  Maybe you should think about what to do about such numbers - instead of  making wisecrackks about the VA."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/4604652133863127118"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/4604652133863127118"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521129307712#c4604652133863127118","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gordon Burkowski"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/15\/2018 08:55:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-5348450308635956382"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-15T08:16:42.653-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-15T08:16:42.653-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"That sensible person has never had to deal with th..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"That sensible person has never had to deal with the VA."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/5348450308635956382"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/5348450308635956382"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521127002653#c5348450308635956382","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Eric"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07366389218759511353"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1529032317"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/15\/2018 08:16:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6407359018439337735"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-15T07:56:24.090-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-15T07:56:24.090-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"A sensible person might point out that the Barbara..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"A sensible person might point out that the Barbara Wagner story is an argument for universal medicare.  The same states that are up in arms about assisted suicide have no problem in letting thousands of their poorer residents die because they can\u0026#39;t afford private insurance."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/6407359018439337735"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/6407359018439337735"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521125784090#c6407359018439337735","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gordon Burkowski"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/15\/2018 07:56:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6589869012566964061"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-15T06:22:07.525-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-15T06:22:07.525-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Netherlands has a rather progressive attitude ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The Netherlands has a rather progressive attitude to abortion.  They went and took the practice to its logical conclusion by expanding the subjects of disposal to not only include unwanted children, but the sick and the elderly through assisted suicide laws.   Which kind of reminds me of this story from Oregon about a terminally ill woman named Barbara Wagner.  (Oregon has a Medically Assisted Suicide Law) Her insurance company sent her a letter saying that they will not cover the cost of her cancer medication, but will gladly pay for her to kill herself.  There is a similar story about a California mother of four who was told that her chemotherapy will be denied, but her suicide pills only have a $1.20 copay.  Her cancer drugs were previously covered, until California passed it\u0026#39;s own Assisted Suicide Law.  What is even more disturbing, is that there are reports coming out of the Netherlands about doctors making the decision for you.  "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/6589869012566964061"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/6589869012566964061"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521120127525#c6589869012566964061","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Eric"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07366389218759511353"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1529032317"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/15\/2018 06:22:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3454759615699235738"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-15T05:00:58.330-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-15T05:00:58.330-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;But you can\u0026#39;t prove that reducing aborti..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;But you can\u0026#39;t prove that reducing abortion or imposing any other form of your moral restraint would achieve that. In fact, reducing abortion would by necessity increase the incidence of one-parent families, so how you figure that the things you want would magically achieve your utopia is beyond rationality.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E1940 Abortion is Illegal - 4% illegitimacy rate\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETODAY  Abortion IS legal - 40% illegitimacy rate\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou are an idiot.  I do not believe in \u0026quot;utopia\u0026quot;.  It is my belief that human nature is unchangeable and that man is seriously flawed.  Just look at all the damage done by people thinking that man is some rational, blank-slate bit of machinery.  Radical Atheists going around telling everybody that we just need to throw away grandpa\u0026#39;s superstitions and then things will be better. Progressives saying that another couple of billion to end poverty when each time we do it it keeps getting worse and worse.  Libertarians who think that multinational businesses are run by angels and we just need to get rid of that damned regulation. It never works, and it will never work.  We have thrown away thousands of years of societal evolution just because we have this new gadget and have figured out a way to pass the buck off to someone else.  We have replaced the Gods of The Copybook Headings with gilded idols of our own genitals."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/3454759615699235738"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/3454759615699235738"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521115258330#c3454759615699235738","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Eric"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07366389218759511353"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1529032317"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/15\/2018 05:00:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-3839996560161476712"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-15T01:34:08.634-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-15T01:34:08.634-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;There is definite evidence that the breakdow..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;There is definite evidence that the breakdown of the American Family is directly related to increased use of drugs, crime, and poverty.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut related how? Is it the cause, or a symptom? Are the drugs causing the breakdown, or are the drugs being taken because of the breakdown? My proposition is you don\u0026#39;t actually know, though you assume you know.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;I would be very happy to deal with the consequences of a world full of intact families, low levels of poverty, and reduced rates of crime.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut you can\u0026#39;t prove that reducing abortion or imposing any other form of your moral restraint would achieve that. In fact, reducing abortion would by necessity increase the incidence of one-parent families, so how you figure that the things you want would magically achieve your utopia is beyond rationality. I suppose you figure God will just step in and make it work somehow, but you\u0026#39;ll have to pardon me if I don\u0026#39;t accept your logic with its flaws."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/3839996560161476712"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/3839996560161476712"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521102848634#c3839996560161476712","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/15\/2018 01:34:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-9064481930283607998"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-14T16:43:12.265-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-14T16:43:12.265-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"There is definite evidence that the breakdown of t..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"There is definite evidence that the breakdown of the American Family is directly related to increased use of drugs, crime, and poverty.  Such as this study from the Heratige Foundation which has a quote from a professor of criminal justice:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026quot;Research confirms that children raised in supportive, affectionate, and accepting homes are less likely to become deviant. Children rejected by parents are among the most likely to become delinquent.\u0026quot; - Kevin Wright, professor of criminal justice at the State University of New York at Binghamton\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI have repeated provided evidence that supports this claim and all you have done was call it biased, then I told you where I got it from, and you then claimed that it never really mattered.  Well, if my evidence is flawed, then surely you can quote a study that shows I am wrong.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;IF you demand to impose a moral restraint, then you are obliged to deal with the consequences of that restraint.\u0026quot;  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI would be very happy to deal with the consequences of a world full of intact families, low levels of poverty, and reduced rates of crime.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;The problem is when you try to make it YOUR choice. But you want to spin this so that you somehow are pure and blameless and need not deal with any of these irresponsible mothers WHILE AT THE SAME TIME denying them the right to make what choices they feel are necessary.\u0026quot; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe choices they have been making have been terrible.  Not having sex before marriage, and having children in a two parent household is is the better, necessary choice to make.  Hell, even Janet Yellen, our own current Federal Reserve Chairman, saw the relationship between abortion, contraceptives, and the rise of broken homes. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EProfessor Brian Clowes pointed out in his criticism of Freakanomics, \u0026quot;FBI statistics showed that the murder rate in 1993 for 14‑ to 17‑year‑olds in the USA (born in the years 1975‑1979, which had very high abortion rates) was 3.6 times higher than that of kids who were the same age in 1984 (who were born in the pre‑legalization years of 1966‑1970). Additionally, since Black women were having abortions at a much higher rate than White women, we should have expected the murder rate among Black youth to have declined beginning in about 1991. Instead, it increased more than five hundred percent from 1984 to 1993.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAbortion \u0026amp; Contraceptives are completely legal.  There are more single households with illegitimate children NOW (40%) then there was in 1940 (just 4%) when abortion and contraceptives were against the law.  We should have FEWER bastards today, instead we have the complete opposite. A damned 10 fold increase.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/9064481930283607998"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/9064481930283607998"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521070992265#c9064481930283607998","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Eric"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07366389218759511353"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1529032317"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/14\/2018 04:43:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-1219873456825956655"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-14T15:21:41.981-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-14T15:21:41.981-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;The information that I have provided shows t..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;The information that I have provided shows that breakdown of moral fiber in society due to Sexual Liberation, widespread use of contraceptives, and the use of abortion has NOT been beneficial to society.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EImportant information: in spite of what you may think, there are other countries on this planet besides the United States of America!  Really!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPeople in places like the Netherlands would have a hard time figuring out what you think you\u0026#39;re talking about."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/1219873456825956655"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/1219873456825956655"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521066101981#c1219873456825956655","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gordon Burkowski"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/14\/2018 03:21:00 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7343405491836666054"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-14T09:51:30.340-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-14T09:51:30.340-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;Now they simply just don\u0026#39;t matter.\u0026quot;..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;Now they simply just don\u0026#39;t matter.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey never mattered. And throwing those stats does NOT back up your claim.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECorrelation is not causation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor example: I was once told that in states where porn sales were highest, there was a higher rate of rape. The person who told me this wanted to make the case that porn is causing more rape. But they really didn\u0026#39;t offer any reason why, or how this might work. They just linked two pieces of data and ASSUMED a causal connection. But this falls apart if you think about it. Porn is a business. It\u0026#39;s not as if the makers of porn are trying to cram porn into stores for free, just to presumably warp people\u0026#39;s minds, no - porn producers put porn in the hands of people who want to buy it. It would make far more sense to assume that, instead of porn causing people to rape, people who are already inclined to rape are more likely to consume porn, and if a state had a higher population of rapists, it\u0026#39;s likely have more porn sold. That doesn\u0026#39;t fit in with an anti-porn activist\u0026#39;s narrative, however, and you might be surprised at the level of mental gymnastics some people will go through to avoid the common-sense conclusion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;One of the things I have been trying to point out is that it is illogical to state that (A) Society has no right on how to dictate lifestyle choices, and (B) to demand that Society compensate for the results of those choices.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat\u0026#39;s not what I demand. For one thing: the religious right is NOT \u0026quot;society\u0026quot;, it is a PART of society, and has no monopoly on the proper moral view. What I say is: IF you demand to impose a moral restraint, then you are obliged to deal with the consequences of that restraint.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you abandoned any claim on the reproductive rights of others - i.e., gave up trying to prevent abortion - then I would have no problem in saying you were excused from paying into welfare. (From my own moral perspective, that is, which has no bearing on the legality of any of this.) But when you try to impose your will upon others, then I feel you have an obligation to deal with the consequences of that imposition. You demand a fetus be brought to term, then that fetus is YOUR responsibility. The onus is upon you, for making that demand upon someone who is not you. Whether or not the mother of that fetus was acting responsibly herself in its creation is beside the point. She could look at her financial situation and decide to terminate, and she would be taking responsibility for her actions by not having a baby that would consume her time and money. Or she might decide to have the child and deal with those consequences. But that would be her choice, not yours.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe problem is when you try to make it YOUR choice. But you want to spin this so that you somehow are pure and blameless and need not deal with any of these irresponsible mothers WHILE AT THE SAME TIME denying them the right to make what choices they feel are necessary. Most of your argument here has been to try and weasel out of that obligation while still somehow clinging to the idea that you have a right to control others, for the sake of children you wouldn\u0026#39;t ever support if they were born. You can\u0026#39;t have it both ways."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/7343405491836666054"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/7343405491836666054"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521046290340#c7343405491836666054","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/14\/2018 09:51:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-6642425479887356307"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-14T05:45:53.032-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-14T05:45:53.032-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"ONE, TWO, and THREE:  \nFirst I I made my claim and..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"ONE, TWO, and THREE:  \u003Cbr \/\u003EFirst I I made my claim and provided evidence to back up my claim.   To which you said the numbers were highly biased.  Then I pointed out where they come from.  Now they simply just don\u0026#39;t matter.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFOUR: \u003Cbr \/\u003EOne of the things I have been trying to point out is that it is illogical to state that (A) Society has no right on how to dictate lifestyle choices, and (B) to demand that Society compensate for the results of those choices.   I honestly do not see how you can have A and then demand B.  It is logically inconsistent.  What would be consistent would be to demand that people not condemn themselves and their future offspring to a life of poverty, drug abuse, and crime.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELook at California, home of the sexual liberation movement.  That state biggest GDP, yet has been ranked as having the worst quality of life out of the entire country.  Drug addiction, homelessness, crime, and streets full of actual human shit.   Not exactly what I would describe as a good thing (unless you consider minorities being condemned to a life of poverty and crime a good thing, which I do not.) Throwing tax dollars at the problem does not work, living a life of restraint and responsibility does work.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;Even when church-based giving is subtracted from the equation, active-faith adults donated twice as many dollars last year as did atheists and agnostics. In fact, while just 7% of active-faith adults failed to contribute any personal funds in 2006, that compares with 22% among the no-faith adults.\u0026quot;  - Barna Group Survey"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/6642425479887356307"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/6642425479887356307"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521031553032#c6642425479887356307","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Eric"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07366389218759511353"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1529032317"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/14\/2018 05:45:00 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-243248370663773852"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-14T00:01:18.897-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-14T00:01:18.897-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"One: No you haven\u0026#39;t. You quote a lot of stats,..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"One: No you haven\u0026#39;t. You quote a lot of stats, and you say that permissiveness is responsible, but you don\u0026#39;t really prove it, you just assert it. There\u0026#39;s a difference. To say, for example, that illegitimacy has increased from one date to the next does not establish the cause of that increase - although it\u0026#39;s obvious you want to make such a link.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo: \u0026quot;I have demonstrated through factual statistics that the breakdown of moral restraint is terrible\u0026quot; - no, again, see point One. Plus this is a sidestep, and does not in any way answer my previous point, being that, terrible or not, the religious right does not have the moral authority to impose moral restraint.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThree: \u0026quot;Welfare spending is 16 times more than what it was in 1963. To which YOU pointed out that the population increased from 189 million to 325 million. That means the population increased 1.7 times, yet welfare spending increased A WHOLE 16 TIMES.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd this is why your stats are more or less irrelevant and pointless, because there\u0026#39;s no actual analysis, just a lot of innuendo. If welfare spending has increased 16 times, there could be many reasons that don\u0026#39;t have some sinister aspect to it. For example, what portion of today\u0026#39;s population falls under the poverty level compared to \u0026#39;63? What rules have changed that defines poverty levels and welfare eligibility? You obviously want to make it a big scary negative point - well, for that very reason I have to remain skeptical about the stats you spout and what they actually mean in the larger picture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFour: \u0026quot;your beloved solution to social breakdown\u0026quot; - it\u0026#39;s not my beloved solution. I just don\u0026#39;t think the religious right has standing to dictate how others should address the issue. PARTICULARLY since they refuse to assume any responsibility for the lives they would affect by enforcing any anti-abortion rules. You cannot demand another person abide by your personal rules on abortion and then claim yourself to be \u0026quot;enslaved\u0026quot; by welfare: it is actually you attempting to enslave others to your sense of \u0026quot;moral restraint\u0026quot; - it is you that demands a sacrifice of others. Paying into welfare would at most be a reciprocal token of appreciation for not aborting fetuses. Otherwise, why the hell would you care about people you see as parasites and whether they have abortions? One fewer child born is that much less welfare you have to whine about. Or do you actually think it would somehow have been less if the 18 million you cite had come to term?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAgain, if your real concern is the well-being of the unborn, you have an odd way of showing it, by washing your hands of them once they\u0026#39;re out in the open air. And to repeat it one more time, this is why I don\u0026#39;t grant the religious right any moral standing on the issue, because they\u0026#39;re trying to have it both ways."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/243248370663773852"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29196034\/7165194976260027516\/comments\/default\/243248370663773852"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html?showComment=1521010878897#c243248370663773852","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/orthodox-objectivism-autopsy-part-2.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196034.post-7165194976260027516","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29196034/posts/default/7165194976260027516","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1615205190"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"3\/14\/2018 12:01:00 AM"}]}]}});