suezanne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> My "name" is SuezanneC Baskerville, and
> I am the avatar of a member of
> the Second Life 3D virtual environment.
> You can find information about it at the company's website,
> www.secondlife.com.
> I've been a libertarian since 1971
> when my senior English teacher
> had the class read The Fountainhead.
Dear Clueless Randroid,
As an Strict Objectionist,
I must strenuously protest
this misinformed slur;
this insult to my party.
You are obviously one
"who subordinate(s) reason to whims",
and whose
"inability to understand either"
Libertarianism or Randumb Objects
exposes you as a "concrete-bound" person who subscribes to
"irrational, anti-intellectual notion(s)"
Now go back and read The Fountainhead a second time,
and respond with a post here when you are finished.
I'll start looking for your post in about..oh...say six months?
You may find thirty-four years past high school
changes one's worldview immensely.
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Does Objectivism sup****t Libertarianism?
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"For the record,
I shall repeat what I have said many times before:
I do not join or endorse any political group or movement.
More specifically,
I disapprove of,
disagree with
and have no connection with,
the latest aberration of some conservatives,
the so-called 'hippies of the right,'
who attempt to snare
the younger or more careless ones of my readers
by claiming simultaneously
to be followers of my philosophy
and advocates of anarchism.
Anyone offering such a combination
confesses his inability
to understand either.
Anarchism is the most irrational,
anti-intellectual notion ever spun
by the concrete-bound,
context-dropping,
whim-wor****ping fringe of the collectivist movement,
where it properly belongs."
-Ayn Rand, "Brief Summary,"
The Objectivist, September 1971
"Above all,
do not join the wrong ideological groups or movements,
in order to 'do something.'
By 'ideological' (in this context),
I mean groups or movements proclaiming some vaguely generalized,
undefined (and, usually, contradictory) political goals.
(E.g., the Conservative Party, which subordinates reason to faith,
and substitutes theocracy for capitalism;
or the 'libertarian' hippies, who subordinate reason to whims,
and substitute anarchism for capitalism.)
To join such groups means to reverse the philosophical hierarchy
and to sell out fundamental principles for the sake of
some superficial political action which is bound to fail.
It means that you help the defeat of your ideas
and the victory of your enemies."
--Ayn Rand, "What Can One Do?"
Philosophy: Who Needs It
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Famous Last Words:
and I swear
that I don't have a gun
no I don't have a gun
no I don't have a gun
no I don't have a gun
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