So, how do we go about falsifying Ayn Rand’s “philosophy”? We could mention that she was addicted to meth amphetamines during almost her entire career, but some would consider that an attack on her character and not on her philosophy. We could mention that she modeled two of her main characters after a man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edward_Hickman) that kidnapped and dismembered a little girl, but that doesn’t mean that her philosophy is wrong, does it? It might even be taken as an emotional appeal. We could mention that after positing a pure meritocracy of capitalism, she immediately gave the character representing herself a discount because she was pretty, kind of a way of flattering herself. But that seems petty and trivial. We could mention that she basically said that nobody can call themselves an objectivist unless she says they are an objectivist and she can retract the status at any time if she doesn’t like what you are doing, that makes her philosophy arbitrary in a way, but I kind of see the need to control your own brand. We could mention that the only influence she ever admitted to was Aristotle, the father of science, thus making herself the greatest philosopher since Aristotle which means all the philosophers between herself and Aristotle didn’t really matter or make an impact. We could mention that she concealed the prodigious contribution of Nietzsche, to her philosophy because he was also a huge influence on Hitler, it was also his regime that invented Meth amphetamines, to which she was addicted, but all of those things are kind of attacks on her character.
But this is how we are going to falsify her. Alan Greenspan was asked why he didn’t see the sub-prime mortgage drop out coming. His response was that he thought all of the players in the stockmarket were “rational”. Some of you might know he was one of her closest disciples. Now what is interesting is that he is not using the Objectivist definition of Rational which Ayn Rand herself defined as greed. In order to make himself correct he is using the normal definition of rational. So either he was doing it strategically and lying, or he had realized that Rand herself had been full of poop, but either way his switching of definitions should be addressed and questioned.
Some people might argue that self interest is no longer self interest when it becomes self harm. But most of the people that took the money in the sub prime mortgage still have it, it never found it’s way back into the economy, and it was Alan Greenspan’s job to prevent stuff like that from happening. So he failed at his position and thereby falsified her philosophy on a grand scale. He either intentionally didn’t do his job or he accidentally failed to do his job, but either way it falsifies her conception of the meritocracy of capitalism in which there is no theft and every exchange is perfectly equitable. There is no way around it, either the market falsified her or Greenspan did, and they don’t get to pass blame around in order to conceal the fact that Ayn Rand’s philosophy is and was wrong.
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Pretty Damn Logical.
I admire the way you pulled up all those insults , but refused to use them.
But You can make an equally rigorous case on the serial killer avatar. A philosophy deliberately based on Psychopathic attitudes is likely to have psychopathic results.
Her many fawning written admiring statements of such attitudes, is evidence of a a personality disorder. That isnt an emotional appeal. Its the logical admission of personal evidence and statements to a diagnosis .
yeah, her writing exhibits amphetamine psychosis, much like the rants of Charlie Sheen.
All the Left ever do is lie, and since you gave no sources to back up any of your crap, I will assume this is another pack of Lefty lies.
You are an idiot. The source cited is Goddess of the Market, by Jennifer Burns, and she is the only Author Sanctioned by the Objectivists and she was granted unlimited access to the Ayn Rand Library.
If you’re going to falsify Rand’s philosophy then focus on Rand’s philosophy and not the actions of a former devotee who’s a living embodiment of the old adage “absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Typical WordPress nobody. Cheap and petty.
Please explain from your stupid and Ignorant perspective why you have Authority over me to tell me what to look at and how to Express myself, and reference Ayn Rand’s “Rational Self Interest” in your stupid and Self Falsifying argument, Idiot.
What? Rand had tons of flaws, she was a woman after all. That doesn’t change the incredible insight and clarity she had. She and her writings were great. I guess some people get too carried away and go into worship mode but whatever. I especially liked the brutal honesty in her books describing female nature, with the “I’m giving you hints cause I want you to savagely rape me and then let’s use my cuck husband’s resources to make your pretty art” in The Fountainhead and the “I will not sacrifice myself for other men… but hey, I said nothing about women! Come to the mountains with me so you can be my submissive housewife after I risk my life to save you from your own stuborn stupidity, let’s make all your exes green with envy now that you found a REAL alpha, a man with godlike powers”. Let’s not even talk about how she described the other female characters.