Ayn Rand's objectivism is a good philosophy. It enables those whose thinking has stopped at the perception they are the most important thing in the universe to feel good about themselves.
Wasn't common knowledge back then, we all proudly use cell phones, there could be an epidemic of brain cancer lurking in the future.
Also not a valid criticism, how does this pertain to her philosophy? MLK may have been a philanderer, does that invalidate everything he stood for?
No, what you're citing is a person who doesn't understand her philosophy (she has a fair number of adherents who understand her only on a very superficial level).
Coming from CBS I expected something a little more substantive, this was extraordinarily weak. No need to go through the list, the author impales himself on the very first one:
"Laissez-Faire capitalism doesn't work. Laissez-Faire capitalism is a utopian fantasy. And like all utopias, it cannot actually exist. Therefore, as a philosophy, it needs to be judged on how it gets implemented in the real world, with all the real world's inherent inconsistencies. Just like Marxism, in the real world, produced the Soviet system in Russia, the real world implementation of laissez-faire capitalism, led by Rand-disciple Greenspan, produced the great recession."
Textbook example of circular reasoning, you can just cut/paste to apply it to any economic or political system:
"Democratic Socialism doesn't work. Democratic Socialism is a utopian fantasy. And like all utopias, it cannot actually exist."
Then he contradicts himself, Laissez-Faire capitalism can't exist, yet in his example it does and fails when applied. I think what he meant to say is that it could not survive a practical application. Historical and present record say otherwise, the more a country has a laissez-faire market, the more it prospers. Switzerland, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong. Not 100% laissez-faire by any mean BUT a much higher application of it relative to other countries.
Last comment. There was no "real world implementation" (nice word salad), the mortgage crisis evolved in a highly controlled/regulated market in which state actors heavily influenced behaviors through incentives and price controls. In a Laissez-Faire market there is a separation between economy and state. When the state is setting pricing through interest rate controls (one example) via the Federal Reserve it causes distortions.
Armstronglivs wrote:
Ayn Rand's objectivism is a good philosophy. It enables those whose thinking has stopped at the perception they are the most important thing in the universe to feel good about themselves.
The feel-goods are short-lived for these irrational degenerates. They always need more hits on the feels-before-reals to keep their empty rhetoric satisfying. We know she and her lickspittles were sensitive to this fact (if she had the ability to self-reflect, she'd have felt every bit the imposter) because they named their crap objectivism, similar to how North Korean sh!theels named their state the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
belial wrote:
Armstronglivs wrote:
Ayn Rand's objectivism is a good philosophy. It enables those whose thinking has stopped at the perception they are the most important thing in the universe to feel good about themselves.
The feel-goods are short-lived for these irrational degenerates. They always need more hits on the feels-before-reals to keep their empty rhetoric satisfying. We know she and her lickspittles were sensitive to this fact (if she had the ability to self-reflect, she'd have felt every bit the imposter) because they named their crap objectivism, similar to how North Korean sh!theels named their state the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
None of that made any sense. It's like you're barely writing English.
can someone translate this to English? wrote:
belial wrote:
The feel-goods are short-lived for these irrational degenerates. They always need more hits on the feels-before-reals to keep their empty rhetoric satisfying. We know she and her lickspittles were sensitive to this fact (if she had the ability to self-reflect, she'd have felt every bit the imposter) because they named their crap objectivism, similar to how North Korean sh!theels named their state the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
None of that made any sense. It's like you're barely writing English.
Translation: you're salty over someone speaking the truth about your Dear Leader.
belial wrote:
can someone translate this to English? wrote:
None of that made any sense. It's like you're barely writing English.
Translation: you're salty over someone speaking the truth about your Dear Leader.
It's hard to be "salty" when I can't figure out what the hell you're saying.
Armstronglivs wrote:
Ayn Rand's objectivism is a good philosophy. It enables those whose thinking has stopped at the perception they are the most important thing in the universe to feel good about themselves.
Bingo, a simplistic philosophy for fools.
can someone translate this to English? wrote:
belial wrote:
Translation: you're salty over someone speaking the truth about your Dear Leader.
It's hard to be "salty" when I can't figure out what the hell you're saying.
This is comedy coming from a Randian fanboi. As everyone knows, Rand is highly acclaimed for her coherent and straightforward prose... /s
Stay salty friend.
belial wrote:
can someone translate this to English? wrote:
It's hard to be "salty" when I can't figure out what the hell you're saying.
This is comedy coming from a Randian fanboi. As everyone knows, Rand is highly acclaimed for her coherent and straightforward prose... /s
Stay salty friend.
My apologies if English isn't your first language. I wasn't trying to insult you, just trying to figure out what your argument was. Maybe you can explain it to a native English speaker who can rewrite it for you.
Add me to the list of people that appreciate Rand's philosophies.
Never read it but she triggers commies so I'm basically a fan.
Harambe wrote:
Never read it but she triggers commies so I'm basically a fan.
I don’t think she does, it seems to me that she excites American incels. Beyond that she’s irrelevant.
Pro-choice
Anti-religion
Thought Ronald Reagan was a clown...
SlowAFRunnrMom wrote:
Add me to the list of people that appreciate Rand's philosophies.
Very few of them are philosophers.
It would be interesting to know whether there was much bitching and whining by the centrist/liberals about Alan Greenspan being a presumed objectivist during his tenure when economy had a long boom with minor recessions. Did they claim that Greenspan was an objectivist purist advocating close to zero percent increases in money supply, returning to gold standard and being against bailing out banks etc, as he had favoured some three decades earlier?
On the contrary, he had his terms renewed (by Clinton) and the NYT described him having "a strong pragmatic streak". Paul Krugman praised him for cutting interest rates quickly and sharply after the 2002 downturn and wrote that he is "correctly... credited with preventing the stock market slump of 1987 from causing a recession, with getting the nation out of the recession of 1990-91, and preventing the world financial crisis of 1998 from spiraling out of control".
Useful guy to claim free markets. When things went well, the guy was a pragmatist who had seen the light with a few objectivist idiosyncracies and meaningless pro-capitalist speeches here-and-there, but when it became evident that his policies had created credit bubbles and moral hazards and cost tax payers enormous sum of money, it was handy and useful now to accuse him of being Randian-liquidationist-objectivist-laissezfaire utopian-ultralibertarian architect of the banking/housing crisis with his "free market orthodox" policies. "Heads I win - tails you lose"
Of course many free market libertarians (like them or not) had considered the guy a shill and a sellout since the late 1980s, and the late economist Murray N. Rothbard wrote already in 1987 that Greenspan was a centrist (favoured higher Social Securit Taxes etc) Trilateral Commission guy the establishment liked, whereas "Greenspan's 'philosophical' Randianism will undoubtedly fool many free market advocates into thinking that a champion of their cause now perches high in the seats of power".
incel mental gymnastics on display.
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