Story Comments
Posted by: engineer 7 months, 2 weeks ago
This page is a permanent archive of the comment below and its replies.
To view this comment in the context of the full discussion for the story, use this link.
-
-
100%
Radiofreeeuropa7 months, 2 weeks ago
This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »
Being originally from the USSR, I understand her contempt of the type of government they passed off as communism. The blind worship at the alter of self is forgivable for her personally as a reactionary measure...but her followers? Greenspan was one of them...I believe he's abandoned objectivism since observing it's effect on the economy.
Reply -
100%
alakazam7 months, 2 weeks ago
This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »
She was essentially the creator of a form of quasi-nihilism who believed men could achieve a self realized godhead.
Reply
The problem is that the path she presented was essentially amoral. She believed in stomping on the faces of an imaginary "lesser man" to reach the top of the pile.
A lot of her work isn't fiction and smacks of pure totalitarianism. She tried to "pretty it up" with the term "objectivism" .
She presented the idea that there were "Supernormals" who were the rightful masters of civilization...that all the good things that free men should expect proceed not from natural right but from the benevolence of Masters properly served. It's a slavers dream. Particularly since all her "supernormals" don't have a scrap of ethics and could care less if the world burns if they aren't getting their every whim of control and scrap of cash out of the deal.
In some places she is worshiped like a god.
http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=in...
It's really pleasant on the surface but the depths plumb into pure darkness.-
-
100%
Natureboy7 months, 2 weeks ago
This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »
"She presented the idea that there were "Supernormals" who were the rightful masters of civilization...that all the good things that free men should expect proceed not from natural right but from the benevolence of Masters properly served. It's a slavers dream. Particularly since all her "supernormals" don't have a scrap of ethics and could care less if the world burns if they aren't getting their every whim of control and scrap of cash out of the deal."
Reply
Much like the neoconservative philosophy of Leo Strauss.
In both cases, merely sociopathology remade as a virtue.
-
-
loading ...
People Who Liked This Comment (4)
tehranchik
alakazam
bruhaha
ProgressivePeople Who Didn't Like This Comment (0)
No one voted this comment negatively.
Post Reply
You are not signed in to Propeller.com. Please sign in to post a reply.