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Mark Gardner<p>👋 Hi everyone, I’m Mark, and this is my <a href="https://mastodon.phoenixtrap.com/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a>!</p><p>I’m a <a href="https://mastodon.phoenixtrap.com/tags/SoftwareEngineer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareEngineer</span></a> who codes mostly in <a href="https://mastodon.phoenixtrap.com/tags/Perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Perl</span></a>, enjoys discussing <a href="https://mastodon.phoenixtrap.com/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AynRand</span></a>’s <a href="https://mastodon.phoenixtrap.com/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.phoenixtrap.com/tags/Objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivism</span></a>, and shares thoughts on <a href="https://mastodon.phoenixtrap.com/tags/ballroom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ballroom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.phoenixtrap.com/tags/dance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dance</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.phoenixtrap.com/tags/cosplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cosplay</span></a>, and playing <a href="https://mastodon.phoenixtrap.com/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> on <a href="https://mastodon.phoenixtrap.com/tags/BassGuitar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BassGuitar</span></a>.</p><p>I attend <a href="https://mastodon.phoenixtrap.com/tags/DragonCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DragonCon</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.phoenixtrap.com/tags/Atlanta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atlanta</span></a>, as well as <a href="https://mastodon.phoenixtrap.com/tags/DeltaHCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeltaHCon</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.phoenixtrap.com/tags/Comicpalooza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Comicpalooza</span></a> right here in <a href="https://mastodon.phoenixtrap.com/tags/Houston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Houston</span></a>.</p><p>You may know me from my previous <a href="https://mastodon.phoenixtrap.com/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.phoenixtrap.com/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> accounts. Sorry about all the jumping around.</p><p>- <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@mjgardner" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mjgardner@mastodon.sdf.org</span></a></span><br>- <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.sdf.org/@mjgardner" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mjgardner@social.sdf.org</span></a></span><br>- <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ack.nerdfight.online/users/mjg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mjg@nerdfight.online</span></a></span><br>- @mjg@gts.phoenixtrap.com</p>
Mark Gardner<p>Just got my copy of Onkar Ghate and Don Watkin’s new <a class="hashtag" href="https://ack.nerdfight.online/tag/book" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#book</a> <a href="https://newideal.aynrand.org/a-new-ari-book-profit-without-apology/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>Profit Without Apology: The Need to Stand Up for Buziness</em></a> at <a class="hashtag" href="https://ack.nerdfight.online/tag/ocon2025" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OCON2025</a>!</p><p>Per the back cover, it’s “a moral defense of <a class="hashtag" href="https://ack.nerdfight.online/tag/business" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#business</a> in a culture that treats financial success as guilt and <a class="hashtag" href="https://ack.nerdfight.online/tag/profit" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#profit</a> as vice. It argues that businessmen—far from being exploiters—are the creators of modern life, and that their pursuit of profit is not something to hide or downplay, but to champion with pride. Challenging the dominant ethic of self-sacrifice, this book makes the case for a new moral ideal—one that recognizes production as a virtue, trade as justice, and the businessman as a moral hero.”</p><p>You can <a href="https://amazon.com/Profit-Without-Apology-Stand-Business/dp/0979466105?" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">get your own paperback</a>; ebook and audiobook versions are forthcoming.</p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://ack.nerdfight.online/tag/economics" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#economics</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://ack.nerdfight.online/tag/ethics" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ethics</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://ack.nerdfight.online/tag/philosophy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://ack.nerdfight.online/tag/objectivism" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Objectivism</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://ack.nerdfight.online/tag/aynrand" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AynRand</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" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>objectivism</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/altruism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" 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>
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" 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" 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" 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" 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" target="_blank">#<span>objectivism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/objectivist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>objectivist</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AynRand</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/forgiveness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forgiveness</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@tg9541" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" target="_blank">#<span>Russian</span></a> emigrée <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivism</span></a> philosophy (<a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/empathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a> already worshipping <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/prosperity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prosperity</span></a> in the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> phenomenon entitled “Who is <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Jesus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" target="_blank">#<span>Resist</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/DoNotComply" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DoNotComply</span></a></p>
KielKontrovers Blog<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcSlibinas" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mcSlibinas</span></a></span> well, <a href="https://norden.social/tags/objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>objectivism</span></a> does not work.</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" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>objectivism</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/altruism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" 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>Mike Mazza argues that Karl <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Popper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" 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" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> differs from <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" 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" 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" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivism</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AynRand</span></a></p>
Talkless :debian: :kde:<p>Argument against <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AynRand</span></a> &#39;s <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Objectivism</span></a> by <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AnCap" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AnCap</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DavidFriedman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DavidFriedman</span></a> :</p><p>&quot;In a [ <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FreeMarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreeMarket</span></a> ], [...] if other actors are free to provide the service of retaliatory force in competition with the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>government</span></a>, it [government] will have no surplus revenue with which to fund government activities [...].</p><p>In order [...] to work, the government must have a monopoly of retaliatory force [...] to be able to collect a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/monopoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>monopoly</span></a> profit with which to fund its other activities.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/objectivism" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/</span><span class="invisible">objectivism</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" 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" 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" 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" 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" target="_blank">#<span>charity</span></a> is a moral duty and a primary virtue.” <a href="https://a.co/aAXS385" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivism</span></a></p>
Mark Gardner<p>“As for the present, I am not willing to surrender the world to the jerky contortions of self-inducedly brainless bodies with empty eye sockets, who perform, in stinking basements, the immemorial rituals of staving off terror, which are a dime a dozen in any jungle—and to the quavering witch doctors who call it ‘<a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a>.’”</p><p><a href="https://a.co/16DxuMJ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">a.co/16DxuMJ</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>When I read this, I wondered if <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AynRand</span></a> had been to one of my old bands’ early gigs. 😉</p><p><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/esthetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>esthetics</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" target="_blank">#<span>objectivism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aynrand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aynrand</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poorpeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poorpeople</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.sdf.org/@mjgardner/113685586385706204" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" target="_blank">@<span>mcjevans</span></a></span> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" 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" 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" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivism</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</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" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>objectivism</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/altruism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" 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>From 1962–1976, <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" 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" 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" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivism</span></a></p>
Christopher Hudson<p>Since <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" 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" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>objectivism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/leftist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>leftist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libertarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" 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" target="_blank">#<span>aynrand</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" target="_blank">@<span>geekruthie</span></a></span> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Heinlein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" 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" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivism</span></a>’s <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/individualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" 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" 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" 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" 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" target="_blank">#<span>AynRand</span></a>’s <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> of <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" 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>
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