Kaos wrote:
> on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:14:45 GMT, Sea Wasp wrote:
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>
>>Kaos wrote:
>>
>>>on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:10:03 -0400, Invid Fan wrote:
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>>>>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.
No, actually, it's not. Once more, you do not understand it.
FORCED groups are inherently evil. Voluntary associations are just
fine -- Galt's Gulch in Atlas Shrugged is a demonstration of just such
a relation****p between equals.
--
Sea Wasp
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