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06-29-2022, 11:34 AM | #16 | |
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06-29-2022, 12:04 PM | #17 | |
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She is on record stating that world is run by 300 men....wonder where she got that crazy idea? |
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06-29-2022, 12:19 PM | #18 | |
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Here is the thing about her and objectivism. It was never limited to a small circle of intellectuals. Well, it was, but who was in that small circle? A young Alan Greenspan for one. That's just one. Her whole little clique went on to run the world. Rand Paul. Mitt Romney. I mean Rand Paul was named after Ayn. Her connection to Greenspan and the whole Clinton administration is a thing to consider, but as a supporter of their ideology, I'll just leave it there. |
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06-29-2022, 12:34 PM | #19 |
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Like I said...groomed by them.
I dont have the reference handy but she absolutely said it....this was before I knew of the Committee of 300...and I though about what she said for awhile. "Who the **** is she talking about"... |
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06-29-2022, 12:38 PM | #20 |
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Blackop, Ayn Rand and Objectivism are considered far right wing. They dont teach that on any college campus. You will never even hear the name Ayn Rand on any accredited campus nationwide.
When I was in college, Oregon State University, they required bac core. Electives. I was there for an accounting degree but all students must take these bac core classes too. So i signed up for Philosophy 150 with a chip on my shoulder. The professor painted his fingernails black he was so pre-woke. This was liberal arts. I asked the guy after class if we were gonna be assigned any Rand. He laughed in my face, the smug prick, and I dropped that class. I retook that bac core years later via independent study credits I earned by covering baseball and wrestling for the student newspaper. Rand is not welcome on any college campus I assure you. |
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06-29-2022, 12:40 PM | #21 |
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[QUOTE=BlackOp;16352623]Like I said...groomed by them.
I dont have the reference handy but she absolutely said it....this was before I knew of the Committee of 300...and I though about what she said for awhile. "Who the **** is she talking I dont doubt it. She was on the side of the good guys. The good guys had power for a few decades during which USA was the most prosperous nation in known history. Now it is communism. Hope things go nearly as well under communisms as they did under Ayn's hand. |
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I killed a squirrel today with a shovel. I think it was because I made that flippant remark about ground squirrels.
It was a mercy killing. My Australian Cattle Dog had it half dead out there. But what can you do with a half dead squirrel? Mercy killing was my only option. I took no pleasure in it. Can JJ Abrams say the same? |
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06-30-2022, 09:48 PM | #24 | |
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Sir, I went to Oregon State. The Ducks are the hated rivals. Pistols at noon!
If you thought that squirrel story was wild let me tell you about the time my dog was going nuts barking. I got up to see what the fuss was about and by god she had a skunk wounded out there. A skunk. Consider the implications! So my first move was to get the dog back into the house. Then I threw a couple rocks at it to see if it would spray. It was alive, but I think it was rabid because it didnt spray. Confident but still cautious, I approached the beast with a shovel. BANG! (I played baseball in high school so I only needed 1 swing). Then I buried it and felt bad about the whole ordeal, as soldiers often do after combat. |
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07-09-2022, 02:34 PM | #26 | |
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The writers aren't telling you they have achieved perfection and can now pass on their superior knowledge. They want you to think about something. They want to share something people generally don't think about. Doctors gain weight. Businessmen go broke. Mothers use contraception. Failing to live up to your own goals doesn't invalidate your goals. Or more simply you need to separate the art from the artist... |
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07-09-2022, 04:25 PM | #27 | |
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Her books are interesting. Which is more than I can say for most post 1900 writers. |
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I want to take one more stab at convincing Janx to read some Rand. The aforementioned recommendation of Anthem is a good call because it is vastly shorter than her better known works, but is known to have the same themes and be on the same high level as the later ones.
But ironically, that's her one book that I've never read! And when I was more into her stuff, I was reading her straight up philosophy books like "The Virtue of Selfishness". So I too need to check out that one. What got me into her was the Fountainhead. The plot is there is this architect that is a true artist, he can envision buildings in his mind and bring them to life. What he will not do is compromise his vision. The second a boss says "good design, but it would be better with x y and z changes, and let's get Thompson to rethink the second level" or whatever, the main character basically quits on the spot. He holds to his values even if it means career suicide, because committee thinking (communism) only makes things shitty. He designs buildings that are considered crazy, things that would fall apart if actually attempted. But he has a small devoted following that loves his stuff and all his aggressive designs are actually quite sound. Janx give it 3 chapters. If you cant root for and identify with the protaganist at all by then, okay it is not for you. But I think you will like him. It's just simply a very compelling novel, in the hard to put down way. It isnt preachy like you might think. Rand was really good at 'show, don't tell.' Last edited by Vladimir_Kyrilytch; 07-19-2022 at 01:41 PM.. |
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07-20-2022, 12:10 AM | #29 |
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This may be the saddest, most pathetic thread I've seen in here
We're becoming a minority group, us middle aged white males. I know that's hard to understand after we've been on top for literally all of recorded Western history. And media, what it's become the last hundred years was run by us for us. And why? capitalism. Money dictates media and guess what...other people have it. Not just us You don't like media? Sorry bud. We're not the target audience anymore We're not being marginalized. Our voice isn't being suppressed. we simply aren't where the most revenue can be found. Not anymore. The world has moved on, and if we don't stop crying like victims and asking for special treatment just because we're white dudes, it's gonna leave us behind. Because other people want different things, and there's just plain more of them. We had our day. It's over. We're not special and we're not entitled to anything. We built the world this way and it's silly to complain about it now. Don't like what's on TV or on the radio or on the internet? Turn it off. Find something else. That's what people who aren't us have always done. |
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Good point. Perhaps I will do just that - find something else. I will seek out media and movies from various genres and time periods that are not vehicles for identity politics at all. I could make a thread to share some of my favorites, and call it "non-woke media for people into non-woke tales".
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