on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:14:45 GMT, Sea Wasp wrote:
> 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.
Her philosophy, in a nutshell, is that groups of people are inherently
evil and anyone who can't stand on their own is a waste of oxygen.
Everything else (and there is a fair bit, I'll grant) was just window
dressing to provide the illusion of morality.
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