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Ayn Rand is a HACK. 
Ayn Rand founded a CULT.
Ayn Rand’s moral ideal was a child-murdering psychopath.
She destroys minds and lives. I, personally, have de-programmed over two dozen Objectivists.
Their minds are PARALYZED. They WON’T THINK, because thinking could lead to thinking non-Objectivist thoughts.
Their minds are PARALYZED. They WON’T THINK, because thinking could lead to thinking non-Objectivist thoughts.
Most people, according to Rand, are UNWORTHY of LOVE.
You don’t find REFUTATIONS of Rand by professional philosophers, because her “arguments” don’t rise to the level of cogency necessary to REQUIRE answering.
THIS is (one of) the problems with Ayn Rand.
Her gleeful celebration of the deaths of 300 people on a train in Atlas Shrugged is morally repugnant.
Some funnies about Rand.
I’ll even add mine.
I’ll even add mine.
Murray Rothbard, one of Rand’s inner circle, and like all of them, smarter than her.
And HE thinks selling children is moral.
And HE thinks selling children is moral.
Massimo Pigliucci has written some on Ayn Rand, on his blog—he also wouldn’t bother to PUBLISH on her.
I found this remark funny, and I agree.
I found this remark funny, and I agree.
David Bentley Hart on Rand:
Clearly I must end with this.
Bill Vallicella, the Maverick Philosopher, backs Hart up with a dissection of one of Rand’s “core ideas”: maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/maverick_philo…
Actually, The Maverick Philosopher (as he often does) hits the NAIL EXACTLY ON THE HEAD about Ayn Rand:
She has a certain amount of literary charm that only teenagers (or those stunted in adolescence) can be overwhelmed by.
Allan Bloom noted this, long ago, in The Closing of the American Mind:
Allan Bloom noted this, long ago, in The Closing of the American Mind:
Vallicella is correct than Rand Trick 1 is to assert a TAUTOLOGY (which, logically, cannot be false) and THEN to PRETEND she has proven a SUBSTANTIVE NON-TAUTOLOGICAL METAPHYSICAL CLAIM.
But there is also Rand Trick 2.
But there is also Rand Trick 2.
Rand Trick 2 is to use WORDS in DIFFERENT SENSES:
1st, she invites you to agree with an unobjectionable proposition using words in their ORDINARY meaning.
2nd, once you have agreed, she THEN asserts you have ALSO AGREED to something else with the same words in DIFFERENT SENSES.
1st, she invites you to agree with an unobjectionable proposition using words in their ORDINARY meaning.
2nd, once you have agreed, she THEN asserts you have ALSO AGREED to something else with the same words in DIFFERENT SENSES.
Since this is Twitter, here’s a hand guide to Trolling Randroids.
Because if you enjoy trolling, they are both easy and soft targets.
Because if you enjoy trolling, they are both easy and soft targets.
I’ll let you go with a four-part blog post by biologist turn philosopher of science Massimo Pigliucci.
The only time professional philosophers are likely to BOTHER with Rand is if they write blogs.
rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2010/10/about-…
The only time professional philosophers are likely to BOTHER with Rand is if they write blogs.
rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2010/10/about-…
Whittaker Chambers and William F. Buckley did America a GREAT SERVICE when Buckley published Chambers’ review of Atlas Shrugged in the National Review.
This piece EFFECTIVELY shunted Rand, deservedly, to the kook fringe of the right.
nationalreview.com/2005/01/big-si…
This piece EFFECTIVELY shunted Rand, deservedly, to the kook fringe of the right.
nationalreview.com/2005/01/big-si…
Can you tell I really LOATHE Ayn Rand with every fibre of my being? 😆
Don’t @ me, Randroids. I block your kind on sight, along with Margaret Sanger worshipers, flying spaghetti monster cultists, and such ilk.
Don’t @ me, Randroids. I block your kind on sight, along with Margaret Sanger worshipers, flying spaghetti monster cultists, and such ilk.
Actually, two more things:
The Ayn Rand Institute buys hundreds of thousands of copies of Rand’s books to keep their “sales” up, just like the Church of $cientelogy buys up thousands of copies of “Dianetics," for the same reason.
The Ayn Rand Institute buys hundreds of thousands of copies of Rand’s books to keep their “sales” up, just like the Church of $cientelogy buys up thousands of copies of “Dianetics," for the same reason.
Okay, this is the ACTUAL END of my Rand Rant.
Ludwig von Mises made her cry.
There’s no point beyond the fact that I find this HILARIOUS.
Ludwig von Mises made her cry.
There’s no point beyond the fact that I find this HILARIOUS.
