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    Objectivism Is The Everyman's Philosophy

    In the universe, what you see is what you get,

    figuring it out for yourself is the way to happiness,

    and each person's independence is respected by all

  • Rand's Philosophy in Her Own Words

    • "Metaphysics: Objective Reality" "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed/Wishing won’t make it so." "The universe exists independent of consciousness"
    • "Epistemology: Reason" "You can’t eat your cake and have it, too." "Thinking is man’s only basic virtue"
    • "Ethics: Self-interest" "Man is an end in himself." "Man must act for his own rational self-interest" "The purpose of morality is to teach you[...] to enjoy yourself and live"
    • "Politics: Capitalism" "Give me liberty or give me death." "If life on earth is [a man's] purpose, he has a right to live as a rational being"

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    Reblogged:Samenow on Solitary

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Answering a series of questions from a thoughtful student, criminologist Stanford Samenow considers the question of whether solitary confinement should exist within the prison system. I found his discussion enlightening both for its explanation of what such a measure should accomplish and for his acknowledgment of past abuses and popular stereotypes about it:Ultimately, it would seem that prisons need solitary for the same reason general society needs prisons, which Ayn Rand once well explained

    "The pursuit of truth is not important." What is the context and meaning of that Ayn Rand quote?

    The Laws of Biology
    By The Laws of Biology,
    This quote is from Ayn Rand's book The Romantic Manifesto. I assume the same quote appears in the 1969 issue of the "The Objectivist" newsletter. I don't have handy the book or the newsletter. On several websites I have found a little bit of the larger context of the quote from the book, which is as follows: “The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which helps you in reaching your goal that is provided you have one.” Wikiquote also give the f

    Reblogged:Why Return to the Office?

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    If there has been a silver lining to the Covid-19 @#$%-storm, it has been the opportunity to test-run work-from-home presented by entire offices adopting stay-at-home measures, be it because employers saw actual merit to them or were wrongly forced to adopt them. To be fair, the audition for work-from-home was flawed, given that so many who had children were conscripted to provide child care at the same time. Nevertheless, the fact that so many balk at blindly returning to the way things were s

    Handling Children with Autism

    HowardRoarkSpaceDetective
    By HowardRoarkSpaceDetective,
    I'm looking for advice from anyone here who has insight into the intricacies of childhood development/learning disabilities. I recently started a new job in which I'm teaching basic reading skills to children of various ages (typically around 7-9 and usually diagnosed with dyslexia and/or ADHD), and it's presenting some challenges that I'm not prepared for. Basically, the program employs a proprietary methodology that emphasizes mental imaging in order to strengthen both phonetic and compre

    Reblogged:Two on Smart Homes and Two Analogies

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    A Friday Hodgepodge 1. Arthur C. Clarke is known for having once said that Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. A case in point might be an unmaintained home automation system simulating a haunted house:Of course, from the standpoint of people being used to technology doing things like this, few people really think this is magic: Even the widow from the story above eventually called someone in to help, and was probably not worried about her lights coming on r

    John Galt Mortgage Company?

    Dupin
    By Dupin,
    That’s what the man said, John Galt Mortgage Company. It’s my understanding you need the copyright holder’s permission to use the name of a character in their novel if you associate the nature of the character with how you use the name.  In this case the company’s website contains the text:  “... we’ll send you our favorite quotes about entrepreneurship, economic freedom, and individual liberty.”  And they say "Go Galt" to get you to use their service.  If I were the copyright holder of Atl

    Reblogged:(Artificial) Haste (Still) Makes Waste

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Writing about the old internet quiz he recently retired, Justin Searls of "Searls-Briggs Type Indicator®" fame analyzed the statistics that years of leaving his "workplace horoscope" questionnaire online yielded. Aside from being an amusing read, his "16 Things You Believe About Software" is also a distillation of the conventional wisdom of a more thoughtful than average cohort. My favorite points to ponder were the second and eighth points, which are Don't hold back details, show us the big

    Reblogged:A Red-Pilled Leftist on Hamas

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Self-described "progressive Democrat" Lanny Davis notes a curious refusal to face facts on the part of his compatriots concerning the war in Israel:These facts are as follows, and will likely sound familiar to many of those of us who do not call ourselves "progressive." (Note that while each fact listed is directly quoted from Davis, I don't lead with his first sentence on Fact 2, because the idea of a "two-state solution" obscures the essential problem.)This picture -- of the same kind of atroc

    Reblogged:20% Support Is a Lot -- Just for RFK Jr.?

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    As expected, conspiracy nut RFK, Jr. declared himself an independent candidate yesterday. Naturally, the leftist media are fretting about whether the Democrat scion will harm Biden more than he will Trump:This report and several like it reach a similar conclusion to mine: RFK, Jr. will also siphon off nutters and other less intellectually fastidious types who vote Republican. It is interesting to compare this with media coverage, left and right, of Biden's non-incumbent counterpart in the GOP,

    Reblogged:Will Israel Seize the Day?

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    It was by glancing at a blog feed in the wee hours of Sunday morning that I first learned of the barbaric -- but utterly predictable -- terrorist onslaught going on in Israel. By now, I have no need to catalog the sheer brutality. Perhaps, to aid the American imagination, it is worth noting that our population is thirty five times that of Israel: To get a numerical feel for the severity of the attack, multiply any figure by 100, then divide by three, for an approximation, as our population is a

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