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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:Two Views of Chris Wright

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Two contrasting articles on Department of Energy nominee Chris Wright show progress towards a rational discussion of energy policy vis-a-vis whatever the left is calling its package deal of the phenomenon of climate change with its policy response of energy rationing these days. In the first, we see the typical legacy media hysteria, starting from its panicked headline,"Trump's Pick for Energy Secretary Thinks Climate Change Is Good, Actually." As you might predict, this heresy is quickly down

    Reblogged:'Logrolling' the Nonprofits

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    "Don't bother to examine a folly, ask yourself only what it accomplishes. -- "Ellsworth Toohey" in The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand *** Over at the Foundation for Economic Freedom is an article about an innocuous-sounding proposal called "Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act." Said proposal unfortunately happens to exemplify a corrupt legislative practice called logrolling, and it's being used to create a situation practically guaranteed to result in a form of soft cens

    Reblogged:Antiabortionists Attack Telemedicine

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    The state of Texas has sued a doctor in New York for prescribing the drugs required for a medical abortion.New York is among the states that have anticipated this problem by passing shield laws to protect doctors from such lawsuits, and the case is expected to lead to a legal test of same.On top of the fact that abortion is a right, it is remarkably short-sighted on the part of antiabortionists to support such laws, given that California soon aped the Texas law in the name of gun control. These

    Reblogged:Four Wins From the Past Year

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    A Friday Hodgepodge Per blog tradition, his alias shall henceforth be Seymour. (Image by the author. Copying permitted.)1. It's great having cats again. I mentioned on Labor Day that we welcomed a kitten into our home. We've wanted pets for over a year, but waited until things were more settled after our move to Louisiana. But you said 'pets,' plural, Gus... Yes, I did. We'd ordered two kittens from the breeder, but we ended up having to wait on another litter for our second cat. He final

    Reblogged:Revisiting a Good Soccer Book

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    During the height of the pandemic, I was in Florida and getting ready to be the assistant coach of my son's soccer team. I'd played before, but never coached, and they needed a volunteer who knew something about the game. Naturally, days after I volunteered, I learned I'd essentially be the coach for the first two months of the season since the head coach would be on a military deployment. Wanting to prepare myself, one of the things I did was to read Travis Norsen's excellent Play With Your B

    Reblogged:Trump's Pen Did Not Save Keystone XL.

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Over at Reason, John Stossel notes an occurrence of the type I warned about several times during Trump's first term:Stossel doesn't say which administration tried to green light the mine or how, but the details don't matter: Without using legislation to uproot agencies of improper government, such as the EPA, it will be impossible to stop them from violating the rights of Americans. Image by Executive Office of the President of the United States, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.Case in poi

    Reblogged:Trump Falls for GSF4

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    It would appear that Donald Trump is channeling his inner geek for the Senate confitmation hearings for his cabinet nomniees -- despite so many of them being unqualified (Hegseth) or worse (Kennedy). For those who don't know what GSF4 is, it isn't some quack remedy slipped to him by Dr. Oz, or RFK, Jr., or some other nominee. No, it's Geek Social Fallacy #4:... or asking his GOP friends in the Senate not to do their job so he can wholesale reward blind loyalty without regard for any possible

    Freedom Versus 'Freedom'

    KyaryPamyu
    By KyaryPamyu,
    Objectivism upholds the 'if/then' model of morality ('if you want X, do Y'). At first glance, this is completely incompatible with the Categorical Imperative, which simply demands you to 'do it', no matter the context or situation. However, in philosophical discussion, the restrictive CI is always connected to concepts such as freedom, autonomy and human dignity, so what gives? Since human freedom is a hot topic for Objectivism as well, perhaps we can extract some nuggets of truth from the CI's

    Reblogged:Two Wars Sink Assad Regime

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Over the weekend, Bashar al-Assad, the brutal dictator of Syria, fled to Russia for political asylum after his regime collapsed like the house of cards it was, having been propped up for many years by Iran and Russia, as noted in an analysis by CNN:The article correctly notes that, for as good a thing the end of the Assad family's half-century of rule is, the immediate future is uncertain, and not necessarily an improvement for Syria's bordering countries. Here are just a few problems facing

    Reblogged:Four Random Things

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    A Friday Hodgepodge 1. At some point, the cold I am recovering from piqued my curiosity about the saying, Feed a fever, starve a cold -- or is it Starve a fever, feed a cold? More curious about the order than anything else, I looked it up and found a nice list of medical myths, many of which I remember receiving as unsolicited advice when my kids were infants -- albeit usually in a much friendlier way than this person's silliness about cold weather... Regarding the saying, the order doesn't

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