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Ayn Rand

Posted by kddr22 7 months, 4 weeks ago to Philosophy
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Today, intelligence is neither recognized nor rewarded, but is being systematically extinguished in a growing flood of brazenly flaunted irrationality.


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    Posted by mccannon01 7 months, 4 weeks ago
    Does this mean in a society that demands everyone be equal, you can't make idiots into geniuses but you can turn geniuses into idiots? I think it's working.
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    Posted by $ jbrenner 7 months, 4 weeks ago
    What is different now as compared to other times in history is that the looters are actively encouraging moochers from other countries to come in like grasshoppers.
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  • Posted by tutor-turtle 7 months, 4 weeks ago
    If you watch some of her interviews (Mike Wallace, Tom Snyder et. el.) you see some of the first blatant and public form of cancel culture.
    Yet Ayn saw right through their games and refused to be cowered.
    Instead, she made them try and defend their indefensible positions.
    The visceral reaction of the later (1980's) audiences made it clear has day, cognitive dissonance had become the order of the day.
    Her work of fiction was becoming reality before her eyes.
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  • Posted by term2 7 months, 4 weeks ago
    The idea of a society is that if people can respect each other and each work to make things better, ALL BOATS RISE.

    In today's society, I have my doubts that there is a lot to be gained by interacting with other people who act irrationally.

    Ayn Rand had at least one thing really right. The only way people can get along is if they each respect the human nature of others, and the way that is shown in economic terms is CAPITALISM
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  • Posted by $ pixelate 7 months, 4 weeks ago
    “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”

    The troubling part -- those who choose to avoid reality leave the bills for the consequences to others.
    There is a nearly complete lack of accountability.
    This has gone on for so long, that the reality avoiders find that they have a limitless supply of blank checks.
    The flood of disasters that they have created needs to enter their front doors and physically make them aware of their failures.
    The more troubling part -- these people are sociopaths -- they neither own nor learn from their mistakes.

    I know that we like to say NIFO (Nuke It From Orbit) -- and Drain the Swamp -- but I think that in order to see real change, for the better, individual cancer tumors need to be identified and deleted.
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