In article <Xns983DA81F4CFE8taustingmail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, No 33 Secretary
<terry.notaniceperson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Sea Wasp <seawaspobvious@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> > Kaos wrote:
> >> on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:10:03 -0400, Invid Fan wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>In article <1157905323.254724.95550@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Bill
> >>>Wayne <HWayne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >>>No different then getting it from a book. Suppose Ayn Rand had
skipped
> >>>the book and done The Fountainhead as a movie. Would the ideas in it
> >>>have less meaning?
> >>
> >>
> >> Is it possible for it to have less meaning in the first place?
> >> (Outside of an objectivist "our groupthink isn't groupthink at all"
> >> camp, that is...)
> >
> > Your above comment shows you have either not read, or have not
> > understood, Rand's philosophy. It is easily possible to show that her
> > philosophy has FLAWS -- basically the same flaws pure Communism has,
> > in a dark mirror -- but dismissing it so casually indicates a failure
> > to grasp it at all.
> >
> "I still believe that Rand was a great philosopher. But I am ****fting
> toward the position that her greatness is as an unhappy example of
> inadvertent folly."
>
> http://home.ca.inter.net/~grantsky/re-evaluating.html
>
> The most common description I see of Rand (other than from people who
sound
> like over-excited puppies, that is) is "cult leader." Not someone whose
> opinions I really care about.
Still, you may find the bio of her in 'Action Philosophers!' fun :)
(any book that starts off by mentioning Plato was a pro wrestler, then
drawing him as such for the rest of the comic while getting his
philosophy right, is well worth reading)
--
Chris Mack "Refugee, total ****. That's how I've always seen us.
'Invid Fan' Not a help, you'll admit, to agreement between us."
-'Deal/No Deal', CHESS
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