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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: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

    What is "Woke"?

    Harrison Danneskjold
    By Harrison Danneskjold,
    I'm curious to see what people on OO would define "wokeness" as.  What is "woke"? Here are a few of my own thoughts which I think are relevant to the question.    

    Book of Poetry

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    My collection of poems In The Gathers of the World is now for sale, a paperback or audio, here. I made one of my poems into a song, and it is sung by a friend here, for free.

    Reblogged:A Catalog of (Recent) UN Atrocities

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    At Jewish World Review is a long-overdue call to dismantle the United Nations, by Melanie Phillips. The most outstanding point of this article behind this call is how clearly and comprehensively it documents the misconduct of this evil organization since the October 7, 2022 pogrom in Israel. I would guess that I have followed the news from Israel far more closely than the vast majority of my fellow non-Jewish Americans, and there were things I was unaware of. Here's one of them:The ensuing dis

    Beginnings and Endings Fun and Fine – guess book

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    BEGINNING "Sitting beside the road, watching the wagon mount the hill toward her, Lena thinks, 'I have come from Alabama: a fur piece. All the way from Alabama a-walking. A fur piece.'"   ENDING "My, my. A body does get around. Here we ain't been coming from Alabama but two months, and now it's already Tennessee."

    Other harm done by "racial" categories

    Doug Morris
    By Doug Morris,
    Apparently the racial categories they ask us to check boxes for are used for other purposes than identity politics and the original purpose of monitoring for ongoing discrimination.  An article in the current Scientific American discusses how lumping health care data using the broad category of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander can cost lives.  I have not read it yet but intend to. "Defogging Data" by Jyoti Madhusoodanan, November, p. S21.  (The strange page number is due

    Space Not Relative to Its Discernment

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    Space Not Relative to Its Discernment ~Part 1~ I firstly quote a stretch from the third dialogue of Berkeley’s Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1734). I refute some of Berkeley’s positions set out therein. In later installments, I expose a wrong turn taken in the traditional Objectivist reply to Berkeley—a kind of reply throwing out the baby with the bathwater when rejecting the primary-secondary distinction of qualities—as well as the handicap that wrong turn brings to suc

    Reblogged:Math Error Behind Plastic Panic

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    I recently encountered an Atlantic article titled, "Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula," with a blurb elaborating, "It's probably leaching chemicals into your cooking oil." Oh, the horror! I have been using the same black plastic coffee maker for at least 15 years and a set of black cooking utensils for at least a decade. Not being dead or unwell after such recklessness, I kept all of them, and decided to check on this again later. I'd either look at the research myself or to see if someone

    About the Russian aggression of Ukraine

    AlexL
    By AlexL,
    An analysis of John Mearsheimer's position, which is: "it is not Putin but the West, especially the U.S., that’s principally responsible for this disaster. The Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault.” The analysis continues:   Read here the full analysis.

    Reblogged:'The Village' Lost the Election

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Via X, I learned of Nate Silver's essay titled, "The Expert Class Is Failing, and So Is Biden's Presidency." It is well worth the read, but I'll note my dislike of the term expert class, despite its currency. It is a populist, demagogic phrase that is too easily weaponized for "class warfare" and for dismissing expertise as such. A better, but still imperfect term I'll use instead is Establishment. The essay interests me, and probably would interest anyone else who has read philosopher Leonard

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