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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"

  • Objectivism Online Chat

    Reblogged:The 'Dead Baby Strategy' of Islamists

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    At Capitalism Magazine is an article by Alan Dershowitz about Yahya Sinwar's deliberate use of civilian casualties to sway public opinion in the West about Israel's war against Hamas. I give Dershowitz a mixed review. On the one hand, it's about time someone called out news media for its negligent or complicit reliance on the casualty figures Hamas has been putting out during the war:Dershowitz goes on to estimate that, of the 40,000 casualties claimed by Hamas, perhaps 10,000 were actually ci

    How would objectivists respond to François Laruelle’s criticisms of ideology

    HappyDays
    By HappyDays,
    I’m curious how the objectivists here would respond to the philosopher François Laruelle’s criticism that ideology distorts our understanding and perception of reality by separating  it into metaphysical binaries, his criticisms of ideology seem similar to Slavoj Žižek’s criticisms, but if you’d like to read more about him to respond here’s an article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Laruelle

    Reblogged:Hysterical Ninny Costs Mother Her Job

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    In Texas, a woman was arrested, indicted, and ended up losing her job, simply because someone called the police when she told her her son he had to walk home half a mile as punishment for misbehavior. Naturally, in this age of precautionary thinking, the most ridiculous, arbitrary, worst-case, make-believe scenarios won out over common sense -- and likely, the personal experience of everyone involved. I walked around for miles as a kid, and I bet my experience wasn't unique.Fortunately, parent

    My Ethical Theory and Rand's

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    My Ethical Theory and Rand’s Perception of mind-independent existence is fundamental to human consciousness, though not the whole of what is fundamental in human consciousness. “Existence exists, we live.” The act of grasping that statement implies that things exist, including you and I conscious living selves, our consciousness being something alive and being the faculty of perceiving that which exists. No one understanding the statement “Existence exists,” whether uttered, signed, or

    Russian invasion of Ukraine/Belief of Mainstream Media Narrative

    Economic Freedom
    By Economic Freedom,
    *** Split from: Objectivists are working to save the world from tyranny--isn't that altruism? *** >Just today I saw a news report that a gov't official in Russia had said that domestic opponents to Russia's current war in Ukraine will be sent to concentration camps. What was the news source? Most of what mainstream media has presented to the public regarding Ukraine has been propaganda. Even many images have been shown to be hoaxes. Ethnic Russians who speak Russian but live

    AI and technological unemployment

    happiness
    By happiness,
    Technology and industrial progress have historically eliminated less productive work and created more productive work because they have mostly replaced or amplified muscle up to this point. Except in limited instances, technology hasn’t replaced the average human brain.  What happens now that generative AI is replacing exactly that? It will start with lower-order vocations, but there is no limit to how many human cognitive tasks it can take over. Apparently it’s already capable of handling

    Reblogged:Four Wins From Twenty Years of Blogging

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    A Friday Hodgepodge Twenty years ago today, as a belated birthday gift to myself, I started this blog. I got the idea from a conversation at the pub with a fellow scientist who also writes on the side. The fact that I have outlasted this once-hot medium is a source of both amusement and consternation to me. I will reflect on this, mostly privately. That said, all such thinking must include both the positives and the negatives, and so it is that I shall kick off my thinking with four wins fro

    Darryl Wright lectures

    HowardRoarkSpaceDetective
    By HowardRoarkSpaceDetective,
    I’m looking for some lectures from a series on motivation given by Darryl Wright in 2005. They’re listed at this site but without a way of accessing the actual content: https://objectivistmedia.com/publications/1268  

    Reblogged:Irreplaceable, in a Comically Bad Sense

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Over at Ask a Manager, Alison Green presents her favorites from reader-submitted examples of broken (yet somehow also sacred) systems in the workplace. Fourth on the list is a funny (and arguably criminal) example of someone who took advice like Make yourself indispensable in almost exactly the opposite way such advice is intended:It is astounding, and -- based on the commonality of certain similar pragmatism-influenced business practices -- perhaps something of a commentary on our culture and

    Reblogged:Improper Government vs. Mifepristone

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Back in 2023, I posted about the resurrection of the 1873 Comstock Act to ban distribution of the abortion-inducing drug mifepristone through the mail. I opined back then that the Democrats should have repealed that law while they had a decent chance to do so. They haven't, and The Intercept notes the danger from that perspective that a second Trump presidency poses:Yeah, but hasn't Trump come out against a national ban? you might ask. That may be the case, but even if he honors his word, he

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