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Miss Rand described a conspiracy without leader or direction in Atlas Shrugged, and went on to comprise the conspiratorialist as haters of reason.
Leonard Peikoff is wont to say "follow reason" throughout OPAR on once in Ominous Parallels.
Follow reason. Following reason leads to or away from the perceptual level, depending on the direction being pursued.
A convoluted way of considering a conspiracy with reason as a sort of leader, and direction as her added-on bonus.
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Nice instructive piece featured on Aeon by Edith Hall, who is is professor in the department of classics and Centre for Hellenic Studies at King’s College London.
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Finished reading "Leave Her to Heaven", written by Ben Ames Williams in 1944.
Saw the book for the first time in a "Little Free Library" box while visiting Curwood Castle (built by another popular author of the early 1900's), and the title reminded me of a line from For The New Intellectual's lead article ". . . leave them to heaven."
Things that make you go hmm.
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Dagny placed the remnant of the motor into a vault in one of the tunnels; the vault had once contained an emergency electric generator, which had been removed long ago.
—a thing that made me go hmm. Was it really necessary to bring up the prior content of the vault?
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Man’s mind or reason, his engine for life was also once used in ancient Greece and again during the Enlightenment, and in the face of bad philosophy is once more abandoned with nothing in its place... now another chance at restarting the generator of his life... a rebirth of reason.
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Atlas Shrugged, the Kelsae Sweet Giant Onion of literature. The chapter Wyatt's Torch just got more intricate.
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Rand is drawing a parallel between the broken "motor" she found and an electric generator. Also, in a way what had been removed is now restored (although the "motor" doesn't work yet) foreshadowing some other restoration yet to occur.
A vault also keeps private, or keeps a secret, what is within it. This is yet another foreshadowing of her discovery that John Galt has already secretly been working in the Taggart Terminal. As the book goes on to show, Galt really has been Dagny's private motivation all along, even before she knew Galt existed.
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Great line from the recently released movie Justice League:
"Darkness, the truest darkness, is not the absence of light. It is the conviction that the light will never return." -
The Witch-Doctors of the past have by and large been replaced by the Which-Doctors of the present.
Instead of the reliance of one's own mind as the final arbiter, encouragement to seek out the Which-Doctors is almost ubiquitous. Which career should I seek? Which house should I buy? Which foods should I be eating? Which set of answers should I be seeking to implement.
When the Patients are ready, the Doctors will appear.
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Growing up, this adage was heard from time to time. "Your actions speak so loudly i can't hear what you're saying."
Consider walking the walk, and just letting the walk do the talking.
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Properly understood, Objectivism is not a manual for what to think, it is an introductory primer for how to do so.
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The Pro•me•the•us Dis•connection
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I'm finding it a little difficult to envision Prometheus carrying Disconnection itself down to the mere mortals. Would he transport it in a purse, strap it onto his back, or perhaps fill a new wine sack with it lest an old one burst?
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The pro me - the us disconnection ... I missed this on first reading. There is no "I" in team but there's a "me" and an "us" in Prometheus.
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And it is close to the intriguing title of a book.
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[A] philosopher is one who, knowing all the difficulties involved in the problem of abstractions, deals with nothing but concretes. Given the track-record thus far, this just might be fun to find out if it is right as well.
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Ayn Rand is right. One only needs to hone their own ability to distinguish what is right.
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It took a moment for the fact to register, while I was stopped at a light looking at the license plate on a GMC which read UCA GMC, that it was a vanity plate.
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Given the tenor of some recent threads, raises this question within my mind. When Objectivism ultimately permeates the culture, will the individuals populating that culture even be aware that it is the tenets of Objectivism that they are adhering to?
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O'Sensei called the Makiwara board, the board of education. The lessons it provided were just and impartial, meting out to each deshi precisely what they provided for exchange.
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The company I currently work for offers a Matching-Gift program for 501(c)(3) "qualified" organizations. Turns out that the Ayn Rand Institute is a "qualified" organization. Spend it wisely Yaron.
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Dear Miss Wodlinger:
... A book cannot be "ruined" through a film or "through the interpretations of some of its readers," as you say. Nothing can ruin a book. It is a completed entity. Misinterpretations are merely the misfortune of those who make them.
—The Letters of Ayn Rand
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After getting clearer on where the weeds of power-lust grow, it becomes more obvious that those power-lusters are just pikers when it comes to what is "the most crucial and practical power in human existence."
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The difference between a heavy fog of passive disintegration and a heavy fog of desultory disintegration only seems to arise when there is a concerted effort to actually cut through the fog.
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History: Testimony provided via an empirical record that supplies incontrovertible evidence substantiating the law of causality's veracity.
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The curiosity is still peaked on this one:
"To control the consciousness of others becomes his only passion; power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind."
Why is "lots" pluralized?
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To emphasize the deficiency in multiple areas of personality: weeds each where rationality, valid premises, love of life, knowledge of reality, self-esteem, certainty, respect for others rights etc. all should be. The weed of power-lust subverts warps or replaces (in its mental variant) what should otherwise be present in each "lot" of the mind, each aspect of an otherwise whole multifaceted mentality of a human being.
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I was stuck on trying to figure out how compartmentalize could make it work somehow. This makes more sense.
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How fitting it was that Liberty Enlightening the World should have been commissioned to Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, resident of La Ville-Lumière. The subtle depths of Rand's use of light is likewise portrayed in Atlas Shrugged via: "If I had staged it intentionally, I would have beaten the record of the Emperor Nero" — the classic example of vicious irresponsibility via his fiddling, or singing of poetry, whilst Rome burned.
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Sean Conn, via Yaron Brook:
I'm frightened by people who claim to have loved Atlas Shrugged: a book that celebrates the mind, hard work, not mooching off of others, and living life the way you want (without interfering with anyone else's freedom) and then say they have 'outgrown' it. What does this mean? You have grown up, and now believe in stealing from others? That life is hopeless? That men should deal with each other by force and government can openly steal your earnings? -
Attractive woman: "Isn't it odd? When a politician or a movie star retires, we read front page stories about it. But when a philosopher retires, people do not even notice it." Francisco: "They do, eventually."
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Great quote!
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