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There aren't many that fit in this 'sub-genre' anyway - Kay Nolte Smith, Erika Holzer, Edward Cline, Shelley Reuben, and Gen LaGreca come first to mind, tho there are several others who are inspired by her writings, to one extent or another [David Gulbraa, Alexandra York, L.Neil Smith, F. Paul Wilson, Dennis Hardin, and James Hogan for examples]... seeing how they write would best clue to what may be considered 'Objectivist values' and how to go about writing them in fiction...

Ahh - but being crooked, they probably leak...

why not - Forbes did...

Am glad the hat is remarked - am always getting compliments on mine, and asked where others can get one like it...

Tales of the Mall Masters ?

www.visioneerwindows.blogspot.com offers works from an Objectivist inspired standpoint...

Then because you seem unable to identify aural percepts - indeed, seem to claim percepts must be visual in order to be objective - you wish to claim what properly is termed decorative arts [those non-objective smears of colors and blobs of amorphous shapes ] as fine art because they 'please you', in effect accepting Bell's criteria for what is 'fine art' and yourself as one of 'those with aesthetic sensibilities'... and claim that as exception making...

Yes - it could indicate bloat, or vaingloriousness for instance... Size should be considered in context, especially when larger than life-sized...

One could consider aesthetics as the branch sibling of politics, namely that each embody applying the ethics - aesthetics to the personal or the individual [as Rand put it, the 'technology of the soul'], and politics, properly, as to the aggregate of individuals...

I would say perhaps to be accepted, not in the 'social metaphysician' stance, but in the psychological visibility stance... I certainly would not consider sacrifice as valid, even as it is the usually given [because of the otherism code of supposed values], nor the needed aspect, since that would properly be a consequence of the psychological visibility and in the stance of the trader mindset... note that Dagny's relationships in each are as equals, with the respective contexts of personal growths [and when Francisco becomes more enlightened, that relationship ends - just as does with Reardon when she meets Galt]...

Yes, because she needed to learn a few things, and until she did, it would not do for them to have the intimacy - it was not, as presumed, a 'bringing down' but its opposite - a 'bringing up' - because unlike a mere animal, she had to understand, something humans do, a form as it were, of self training... in that respect, it was not control as a superior over an inferior, but an objectivity of 'knowing thyself' that if she was to intimate with him, certain understandings, certain relationships of life, needed to be understood, and put into proper context...

While it is true humans require rationality to live, it is not an automatic - it has to be learned... further, its value has to be learned, and if its value is not taught as such as being more than a 'necessary evil' or similar, then its usability conforms more to the notion of 'common sense' or haphazardly applied rationality - with all the ensuing contradictions and irrationalities you have noticed, just as you have noticed that 'their current knowledge is lacking'... but it is more than just pointing out this - there is a need of persuasion that the total rational is indeed the needed, and that it not involve the conflicting and/or repression of emotions, as is oft given... you have to realize that there is an inertial problems of strong habituation involved as well, which for many makes changing their views and acceptances more difficult, even if they intellectually agree with the rational view...

Reminds me of the scene from AS when the fella [Mort?] lays claims to the 'new' tune coming from the radio - a vulgarized version of something Halley wrote...

Modesty is not a virtue - it is self-abnegation...

and his expression doesn't look particularly romantic...

Why is there a wanting of a larger sculpture - to what end? what is 'wrong' with this as is, sizewise?

Rational animal would be the correct term because one must remember we are integrated beings, which means the animal in us is pertinent to our being, however rational we be... another rational being, per se, may not be animal, and its integratedness would, therefore, be different from ours, despite the commonality of being rational...

This sounds like excuses to 'justify' your desired inclination to indulge in gross irrationality... as pathological examples, they serve a valid purpose, but in terms of declaring a pro-human aesthetic, no... [now, there is a distinction between horror and suspense - Halloween [the original], for instance, is suspense, with the heroine displaying resolve in the end, rationally acting to preserve herself, a pro-human action... the sequels are something else...

Is there? Eric Lerner would disagree - http://bigbangneverhappened.org/

Thank you - took the words right out of my mind that Hari Seldon is waiting in the background...

QUOTE (RationalBiker @ Oct 10 2009, 07:50 PM) * Vanessa Mae - A violinist who performs compositions of classical music to a modern dance beat. The Best of Vanessa Mae. .................................... Definitely!! been a fan of hers since she was a child prodigy... and her stage performances are truly astounding, rivaling Madonna...

As a sidereal, I have notes on Barbara Branden's Efficient Thinking lectures, if anyone is interested... [these are from the 60's]

Ever consider the world within your mind? the latest - in progress... "My Bigger Back Yard" 32"x40" colored inks

One needs realize that in pre-Christian times, there was known the 'art of cooking' - as the Greeks defined art' as 'skill of mind in making'... but taste, as with smell, is an 'earthly' enjoyment, and this was taboo to the afterlife wants of Christianity... only in the Renaissance era, when earthly delights again made their prominence, was the possibility of 'art of cooking' again raised... as to its permanence, the same with music - comes and goes, but remains possible thru the sheets of notations, just as recipes used for the cooking do for that...

But evolution, properly considered, is much more than just about life - it is the concept of concerted change, which would involve all aspects of the universe itself, and which could be said to be cyclic, so that there is no real 'beginning' or 'end'...