Sea Wasp wrote:
> Kaos wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
I always wondered who was going to do all of the grunt work in
Galt's Gulch. And how did they plan on keeping out the "riff-raff"?
I was just at WallyWorld and they had a copy of -Mazes and Monsters-
on sale for $5.50. I was tempted...
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Tetsubo
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