Kent Pitman<p>A few thoughts that relate to the above poem (tanka).</p><p>The late Erik Naggum was a controversial figure as a user of programming language Common Lisp and markup language SGML because he was often unreasonably and mercilessly unkind to people he regarded as stupid or people (often newbies) who were unwilling to educate themselves from resources he felt would rescue them from ignorance. I won't make apologies for that. It was beyond rude.</p><p>Nonetheless, he was brilliant thinker and I am not one to ignore useful thought because of its source. That is itself a controversial position but it's one I strongly hold to. To do otherwise puts important thought at risk by manufacturing truths or even discovering legit truth about any author. If you were told Homer or Shakespeare or Thomas Jefferson or Maya Angelou or Mark Twain or MLK or AOC or Bernie Sanders was morally flawed, are you then obliged to disclaim or remove their writing. Society would be forever hostage to reputation peddlers. I maintain that the goodness of writing must be judged by the words of the writing, not the author. It's an uncomfortable but necessary truth, as I see it. </p><p>Indeed, to read even the thoughts of Hitler or Ayn Rand, neither of whom I thonk well of, can be important. To understand the world and its history, it matters to hear all kinds of people [1].</p><p>As I undertand it, Naggum was originally an objectivist. That's how he seemed to present himself to me, as an ex-objectivist. At one time a fan of Ayn Rand and her philosophies. But at some point he had a falling out and came to be a very lucid critic [2], with the sharpness and clarity of one disillusioned by deep and contemplative thought.</p><p>His writing is blunt and sometimes intolerant but makes strong points. I found slogging past the unncomfortably phrased parts useful. There's a lot of interesting stuff there.</p><p>But one thing he, a Norwegian, once said to me was that he felt the really unique and valuable thing about the American capitalist system was its degree of forgiveness. Elsewhere, he said, if you make a mistake and, you are done, sacked with debt you cannot return from, and given no second chance. The American system of bankruptcy means people can recover and learn from mistakes.</p><p>Plainly some do not learn, as one of our co-presidents shows clearly. And you can still do horrible harm that you should not be forgiven for, a problem the other co-president is poster boy for. But there is a place for forgiveness and just tolerance.</p><p>Yet instead, having gotten into the treehouse, the co-presidents are not seeking to bring others along, just to pull up the ladder so that no one else can get in, at least not without paying dearly.</p><p>Naggum also speaks (and this much is in the referenced essay [2]) of the need to accomodate change and diversity and unfortunate circumstances, which he seems to assert is part of the fabric of society that bring intolerant people to sufficient success that they can start to build a society that espouses no need for such.</p><p>These things which are in stark contrast with the writings of Yarvin (the apparent philosophical leader of Vance and the Project 2025 crowd), who seems scarily comfortable with death and suffering [3] [4].</p><p>[1] <a href="https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2009/05/freedom-to-hear.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">netsettlement.blogspot.com/200</span><span class="invisible">9/05/freedom-to-hear.html</span></a></p><p>[2] <a href="https://www.nhplace.com/kent/Writing/OS/Naggum-on-Atlas-Shrugged.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nhplace.com/kent/Writing/OS/Na</span><span class="invisible">ggum-on-Atlas-Shrugged.html</span></a> (yes, it has some broken links but the important part is the long embedded quote from email he sent me)</p><p>[3] <a href="https://www.thenerdreich.com/curtis-yarvin-fears-his-authoritarian-fantasy-is-flopping/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thenerdreich.com/curtis-yarvin</span><span class="invisible">-fears-his-authoritarian-fantasy-is-flopping/</span></a></p><p>[4] <a href="https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2024/10/vance-notice.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">netsettlement.blogspot.com/202</span><span class="invisible">4/10/vance-notice.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>objectivism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/objectivist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>objectivist</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AynRand</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/forgiveness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forgiveness</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>
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Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@tg9541" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tg9541</span></a></span> They get it from the “Atlas Shrugged” novels written by <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russian</span></a> emigrée <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AynRand</span></a> (where the ‘hero’ is a character named John Galt). Her hyper-rationalist <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivism</span></a> philosophy (<a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/empathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empathy</span></a> is a sin) was perversely melded into the ethos of so-called fundamentalist <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a> already worshipping <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/prosperity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prosperity</span></a> in the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a>.</p><p>I saw an excellent essay on this <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> phenomenon entitled “Who is <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Jesus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jesus</span></a> Galt?” that has since been ‘disappeared’. 🤷🏻♂️</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resist</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/DoNotComply" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DoNotComply</span></a></p>
Mark Gardner<p>Mike Mazza argues that Karl <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Popper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Popper</span></a> was wrong to reject scientific induction in favor of merely disproving hypotheses: <a href="https://youtu.be/ad5KEuKz1a8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/ad5KEuKz1a8</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Popper’s “falsificationism” claims <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> differs from <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> and pseudo-science in its rational *lack* of certainty. But this only serves to undercut the rationality of science!</p><p>Lecture recorded live at <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/OCON" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OCON</span></a> 2024 on June 16 in Anaheim. Come to Boston this summer for OCON 2025! <a href="https://events.aynrand.org/ocon/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">events.aynrand.org/ocon/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivism</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AynRand</span></a></p>
Mark Gardner<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://atomicpoet.org/users/atomicpoet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>atomicpoet</span></a></span> I like Barbara Branden’s answer (as recounted by <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AynRand</span></a>) to the question: “What will happen to the poor in an <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Objectivist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivist</span></a> society?”</p><p>“If *you* want to help them, you will not be stopped.”</p><p><a href="https://a.co/1UCeYwP" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">a.co/1UCeYwP</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>(Rand had nothing against voluntary giving but viewed it “as a marginal issue. What [she fought] is the idea that <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/charity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>charity</span></a> is a moral duty and a primary virtue.” <a href="https://a.co/aAXS385" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">a.co/aAXS385</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>)</p><p><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivism</span></a></p>
☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭<p>Check out this argument I had with an Objectivist who tried to argue that Ayn Rand actual cared about poor people, and their evidence was a YouTube video of an interview she did where she said, "I don't hate the poor, I just don't think they're the best thing in life, and that one should tailor everything to their convenience."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>objectivism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aynrand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aynrand</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poorpeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poorpeople</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.sdf.org/@mjgardner/113685586385706204" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">social.sdf.org/@mjgardner/1136</span><span class="invisible">85586385706204</span></a></p>
Mark Gardner<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@mcjevans" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mcjevans</span></a></span> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AynRand</span></a>’s essay titled “What Is <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a>?” (1965) beautifully explains the connection. You can read it for free here: <a href="https://ari.AynRand.org/issues/government-and-business/capitalism/pov-what-is-capitalism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ari.AynRand.org/issues/governm</span><span class="invisible">ent-and-business/capitalism/pov-what-is-capitalism/</span></a></p><p>If you prefer listening, that page also links to audio and video presentations of the version she edited down as a lecture.</p><p>You can also find it in print in the 1966/67 anthology “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.”</p><p>Let me know what you discover!</p><p><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivism</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a></p>
Mark Gardner<p>From 1962–1976, <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AynRand</span></a> published a series of periodicals containing dozens and dozens of nonfiction articles by herself and others. Many were later anthologized, but many more were only available in bound collections from the Ayn Rand Institute.</p><p>But now you can get discounted paperback editions from Amazon! <a href="https://amazon.com/dp/B0DPJCLFGN?binding=paperback" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amazon.com/dp/B0DPJCLFGN?bindi</span><span class="invisible">ng=paperback</span></a></p><p>Here’s an excerpt from the very first article, appropriately titled “Choose Your Issues.” <a href="https://NewIdeal.AynRand.org/an-excerpt-from-choose-your-issues-from-ayn-rands-bound-periodicals-now-in-paperback/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">NewIdeal.AynRand.org/an-excerp</span><span class="invisible">t-from-choose-your-issues-from-ayn-rands-bound-periodicals-now-in-paperback/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivism</span></a></p>
Christopher Hudson<p>Since <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AynRand</span></a> is in the discourse again, here’s Roderick Long on Rand’s left-libertarian legacy </p><p><a href="https://praxeology.net/unblog02-06.htm#01" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">praxeology.net/unblog02-06.htm</span><span class="invisible">#01</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>objectivism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/leftist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leftist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libertarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libertarian</span></a></p>
Edogowa<p><a href="https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-we-all-live-in-the-world-of-ayn-rand-egomaniac-godmother-of-libertarianism-can-fiction-help-us-navigate-it-220326" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/friday-ess</span><span class="invisible">ay-we-all-live-in-the-world-of-ayn-rand-egomaniac-godmother-of-libertarianism-can-fiction-help-us-navigate-it-220326</span></a></p><p>Odd how Ayn took Medicare when she was dying of lung cancer from her years of proudly smoking. </p><p>Truth is, Ayn knew nothing about human nature. Check the official version of her "philosophy" by Leonard Peikoff for the words "child" and "parent". Ayn Rand was a sociopath. Check out what happened when her affair with Nathaniel Branden ended because had a younger lover. </p><p>Ayn wrote romance novels that should have had Fabio on the cover. That's all.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aynrand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aynrand</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>objectivism</span></a></p>
Mark Gardner<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@geekruthie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>geekruthie</span></a></span> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Heinlein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Heinlein</span></a> came close, but even as he admired <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AynRand</span></a> he once joked that she “was a bloody socialist compared to me.”</p><p>I think it’s because he never grasped <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivism</span></a>’s <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/individualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>individualism</span></a> as a consistent application of rationally recognizing man’s nature in the field of <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a>. He seemed to favor more Nietzschean emotional iconoclasm.</p><p>So the whim-worshipping <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Libertarians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Libertarians</span></a> love him, lump him with Rand, and the rest of the culture accepts the package deal.</p><p><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a></p>
Mark Gardner<p>It sucks whenever I draw sneers on <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> for posting unpopular things based on <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AynRand</span></a>’s <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> of <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivism</span></a>.</p><p>Which is almost every time.</p><p>But then these words echo back to me in my head whenever I feel intimidated into silence by the wrongness of the world: <a href="https://a.co/7KMJ42p" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">a.co/7KMJ42p</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>And then I remember that “popular” doesn’t mean “right” in either the factual or moral sense of that word.</p><p>So I go back to fighting the good fight, in every sense of that phrase.</p>
Mark Gardner<p>Stopping the motor of the world does take a toll.</p><p>source: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C3clzspoh6Q/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">instagram.com/p/C3clzspoh6Q/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/JohnGalt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnGalt</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AtlasShrugged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtlasShrugged</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/WhoIsJohnGalt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhoIsJohnGalt</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AynRand</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivism</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
Mark Gardner<p>“You place property <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/rights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rights</span></a> above people,” according to the cliché by right- and left-wing <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/socialists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialists</span></a>.</p><p>Leonard <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Peikoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Peikoff</span></a> has little patience for this…</p><p>Watch the entire Debate 1984 “<a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Socialism</span></a> or <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a>: Which Is the Moral System?” with Dr. Peikoff and Dr. John Ridpath vs. two <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/socialists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialists</span></a>, here: <a href="https://youtu.be/uPC5lkpi1WI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/uPC5lkpi1WI</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivism</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AynRand</span></a></p>
Mark Gardner<p>To understand why <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AynRand</span></a>’s <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> of selfishness inspires millions of readers, we need to get beyond the popular conception of what <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/selfishness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfishness</span></a> involves: <a href="https://NewIdeal.AynRand.org/can-selfishness-be-a-moral-ideal/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">NewIdeal.AynRand.org/can-selfi</span><span class="invisible">shness-be-a-moral-ideal/</span></a></p><p>“Instead of callous climbers and exploiters, we find [in <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/TheFountainhead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheFountainhead</span></a> and <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AtlasShrugged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtlasShrugged</span></a>] individuals of integrity, purpose, and intelligence … who guide their lives by reason, pursue productive careers and take pride in themselves, their work, and their capacity to live.”</p><p><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/morality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>morality</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivism</span></a></p>
John Henry<p>Most of Rand's philosophy comes down to rationalizing avarice, but that doesn't mean it can't be useful. <a href="https://me.dm/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>objectivism</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/altruism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>altruism</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://medium.com/@johnhenryus/the-one-good-thing-about-ayn-rand-514f5663d1cf?sk=0105a8ef7fecf2fe84ac61fbb5c4b59b" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/@johnhenryus/the-on</span><span class="invisible">e-good-thing-about-ayn-rand-514f5663d1cf?sk=0105a8ef7fecf2fe84ac61fbb5c4b59b</span></a></p>
Mark Gardner<p><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AustinTX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AustinTX</span></a> is about to become the center of the <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Objectivist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivist</span></a> universe: <a href="https://YouTube.com/live/u2bd15PxBl8?t=3282" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">YouTube.com/live/u2bd15PxBl8?t</span><span class="invisible">=3282</span></a></p><p>The stunningly-designed <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AynRand</span></a> Center will be breaking ground soon, hosting:</p><p>• a <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/museum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>museum</span></a>, archives, & interactive visitor center;<br>• physical campus for Ayn Rand <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/University" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>University</span></a>;<br>• intellectual hub for the exchange of ideas;<br>• and the new location for the <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AynRandInstitute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AynRandInstitute</span></a> (bye California!)</p><p>(1/2)</p><p><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivism</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Austin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austin</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/ATX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ATX</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a></p>
Mark Gardner<p>Why not give or sell your work, wealth, or property to just anyone?</p><p>“Because it’s *mine.* Do you understand the word?”</p><p>—Hank Rearden in ‘<a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AtlasShrugged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtlasShrugged</span></a>’ by <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AynRand</span></a> <a href="https://AynRand.org/novels/atlas-shrugged/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">AynRand.org/novels/atlas-shrug</span><span class="invisible">ged/</span></a></p><p>Your mind is your fundamental tool for survival as a human. Your individual right to life includes the right to use your mind for productive work and enjoy its results. That is the foundation of your <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/PropertyRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PropertyRights</span></a> and of <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/IndividualRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndividualRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/rights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rights</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivism</span></a></p>
Mark Gardner<p>Most professional philosophers boycott <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AynRand</span></a> and “wish the media would stop referring to her as a <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/philosopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosopher</span></a>.” Even when a journal or textbook is not hostile to her arguments, they consistently have little connection with her written texts because of parochial attachment to the frameworks Rand challenges.</p><p>This is simple <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/prejudice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prejudice</span></a>, and these professionals have yet to overcome their own biases. Can you?</p><p><a href="https://newideal.aynrand.org/why-cant-professional-philosophers-get-rand-right/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newideal.aynrand.org/why-cant-</span><span class="invisible">professional-philosophers-get-rand-right/</span></a></p><p>/cc <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tilvids.com/accounts/letstalkphilosophy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>letstalkphilosophy</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivism</span></a></p>
Non Serviam Media Collective<p>Our good friend and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiPowerHour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiPowerHour</span></a> co-host Cory Massimino has a *brand new* podcast with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@C4SS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>C4SS</span></a></span> titled “The Long Library” with influential market anarchist and left-libertarian Roderick T. Long on his various writings spanning over four decades. 🏴 </p><p>🔗 <a href="https://c4ss.org/content/59378" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">c4ss.org/content/59378</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/marketanarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marketanarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/libertarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libertarian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/libertarianleft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libertarianleft</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/austrianeconomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>austrianeconomics</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/politicalphilosphy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politicalphilosphy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/individualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>individualism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>objectivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/egoism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>egoism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/minarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>minarchism</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>The_Whore_of_Blahbylon</span></a></span> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AynRand</span></a> was also the author of “<a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivism</span></a> , or How to Trash the Government and Cash Your <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a> Checks, Too!” 😂 👉 <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ayn-rand-social-security/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">snopes.com/fact-check/ayn-rand</span><span class="invisible">-social-security/</span></a></p>
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