on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 21:53:52 GMT, 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.
No, actually it is. The rest was window dressing.
(Noting that I distinguish between a "Group of people working together"
and a "loose association of people working seperately towards the same
goals.")
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