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Вениамин

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  1. It was bad. I know I'll end up watching parts II and III, but that is mostly out of a compulsion to finish series of things than anything else.
  2. No, for the aforementioned reasons, but also that the phrase claims an arbitrary geographical fiction about my culture and, these days, also connotates a sort of blind and traumatic allegiance. I am as wary of people who say "I'm proud to be an American" with any sort of conviction as I am of people who say "Communism is a good idea on paper".
  3. This will be as concise as possible: I am a full time college student (economics) and I also work as a tobacconist. Two years ago, I read The Fountainhead, and I know it is cliche, but I thought the story put into words the vague and previously unarticulated feelings I have had about the way people behave and the way society works, like a "finally, someone else gets it" kind of moment. I had never known previously that such a school of thought existed. I have since been reading a lot about the related philosophies and fields of liberty, but I feel that I have, over time, found out that I have far many more questions with each new idea I learn. I don't like being in the position of not fully understanding what I categorically know to be right, but the time commitment to learning all of these ideas is quite immense really, especially for objectivists as objectivists seem to be against all conventional thought. I feel I have also wandered down some wrong paths in the process of learning more about liberty and objectivism. Particularly anarcho-capitalism. From a purely idealistic point of view, the tenants make sense to me. Realistically speaking, however, I have never found the anarcho-capitalist solutions to be sound, and this is after spending a lot of time reading Rothbard, Hoppe, etc. and lurking on mises.org. A sort of "so close and so far away" feeling about the philosophy. I really want to support it, but I find the anarcho-capitalist solutions to be lacking in the same kind of ruthless scrutiny that anarcho-capitalists claim the statists do not have (I feel the same way about political libertarians and the Ron Paul camp). I have had conversations with anarcho-capitalists and often I find their ideas fall to the wishful thinking fallacy and often ignore the freeloader problem in economics. I have come to OO to find my roots. Objectivism is where I started and I think it would be best for me to spend time here to form a concrete, defensible, and rational position that I can be confident about defending (not the anarcho-capitalist "I don't know how it would work, but I know it will be moral" kind of cop-out). Also, learning about objectivism is really a lot of work to make oneself feel like an outsider. So far it has made me kind of sad to realize that the man of modern society is usually a vacuous, dangerous, morally bankrupt idiot. I want to meet other people that don't think what I believe is a sign that I am "deeply troubled" as my own twin sister told me after I first explained to her, in brief terms, what I believed in. I also come from a very Jewish, very liberal family and my family's religion has been the source of a quiet animosity between myself and them after I told my parents I have become an atheist. That's about sums it up. Thanks for reading. P.S. (I can go by Benjamin if that makes things easy)
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