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So, I am an amateur classical guitarist. I've been studying the instrument for some time. I have made some tabs and arrangements, mostly of video game music. (Don't sniff just yet!) About a month ago, I made an arrangement that I have been absolutely ecstatic about, because I didn't know it could be done on guitar. Now I've practiced it, and made a video: Hope you enjoy it! If I do anything else that I'd like to present, I'll post it here, too. And feel free to check out the rest of my channel if you like.

What is meant by "outside of a political-economic social system?". Rights are prior to any system and serve as the only justification for one.

The podcast is worthwhile, but not surprising, and as you say could apply both ways. Trying to get my head round Objectivists "misinterpreting" O'ism - and being ousted as a result... Is it possible to be a. an intrincist O'ist? b. a subjective O'ist? That was a new notion for me until I read LP and DK, on the subject. "Peikoff is giving voice to intrincism - a belief that the truth is revealed and that error reflects a willful refusal to see." [ D. Kelley: Truth and Toleration] Also: "Fundamentally, the choice is objectivity vs. non-objectivity in its various forms. Being objective in practice however, does require a kind of mental balancing that sometimes feels like striking a compromise. We have to hold in mind the requirements both of reality, and of our own nature, and if we focus too narrowly on one, or the other, we tend to slide into intrincism or subjectivism." "Compromise"? " mental balancing" ? not things that I wanted to hear, as an Objectivist. Except. I know what he means. Who of us picked up our first Ayn Rand novel, followed by everything else she wrote (in quick succession) and did not get a 'sense' of "revealed knowledge"? I'll bet that it lasts to this day in many of us. Partly her style, partly her self-evident truthfulness, partly her sense of urgency in her terse essays, partly the reader's own hunger - lots of elements to this. Of course, she did, and would, reject intrincism with contempt. She proved every step of the way. But the effect still lingers. Emulating her (or trying to) can lead to dogmatism, in my opinion. I know what Kelley means by the narrow gap between subjectivism and intrincism. It is that (I suppose) psycho-epismological sense - again - that one is both observer of, and participant in life. Kinda like simultaneously watching a play onstage as an audience member - and being the main character in the spotlights. Part of the value, the essential one for me, of Nathaniel Branden's works, is that he 'ties them together', and avoids both pitfalls in the process.. (An 'enemy of O'ism'? hardly. Perhaps its greatest supporter, in hindsight.) As an afterthought, it's occurring to me that the difference between the DK 'school', and the LP one, is not only epistemological, but also metaphysical. That is indeed a very deep divide. Personally, I will continue to learn from both schools.

"The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions." - Ron Paul Unless, apparently, those individuals organize themselves into a state - then he has no problem with passing laws to violate individual rights.