One of the most amazing thing about this interview is just how well composed Mike Wallace is. Wow...I wish there were still people like this on television.
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#12I never understood why people were so keen on Ayn Rand. Seems like a philosophy built to justify being a jerk.
In New York, objectivism is sort of a support group for fucked-up rich people of mediocre intelligence. They have meetings and shit.
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#13Despite Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead being amongst my favorite books, Ayn Rand always has me so polarized. Her moral philosophies and ability to write characters earns my unmatched admiration. But her blinding hatred for socialism (as conveyed from her very first book) keep her economic views from ever being realistic or even interesting. For the same reason communism fails, her free market would fail, because…
I can understand her dislike for Soviet-style socialism, but this would only lead me to have more contempt for 21st-century corporations, which combine the worst of both worlds between socialism and capitalism.
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#14I stopped watching after she said something about the existence of objective reality.
It is completely unfair to dismiss Rand for any one thing she says or believes. Like any philosophy, the good come with the bad, and Rand has some very thought provoking, if not indisputable, good. And objective reality is not so unintelligent or undebatable to be dismissed at the whim of one sentance.
On HN of all places, I expect that most people would agree that there's an objective reality.
I wonder if greenlblue stopped watching because she was talking about something so darned obvious.
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#15One of the most amazing thing about this interview is just how well composed Mike Wallace is. Wow...I wish there were still people like this on television.
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Isn't that his microphone? Or are you referring to something else?
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#16a remarkable thing about Objectivism is the overlap between Rand's epistemology and the paradigm of Object-Oriented Programming. It's uncanny. (if you want to know more, you might be able to find her 70 page essay 'An Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology', also there was an academic paper about the OOP link written recently)
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#17Despite Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead being amongst my favorite books, Ayn Rand always has me so polarized. Her moral philosophies and ability to write characters earns my unmatched admiration. But her blinding hatred for socialism (as conveyed from her very first book) keep her economic views from ever being realistic or even interesting. For the same reason communism fails, her free market would fail, because…
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2009/03/ephemera-2009-7.html
Those kinds of condescending and trite dismissals are just not interesting. Rand draws more than her fair share of them and I don't think an honest debate can be held over her (good) philosophies because of their prevalence.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is completely unfair to dismiss Rand for any one thing she says or believes. Like any philosophy, the good come with the bad, and Rand has some very thought provoking, if not indisputable, good. And objective reality is not so unintelligent or undebatable to be dismissed at the whim of one sentance.
On HN of all places, I expect that most people would agree that there's an objective reality. I wonder if greenlblue stopped watching because she was talking about something so darned obvious.
No, I stopped watching because she was talking about something so obviously wrong. The amount of processing your brains does to fill in details and recreate memories from sparse details is quite amazing and this is enough evidence for me to throw out objective reality. Also, I don't understand how HN influences people's philosophical views or why anyone with an HN account would be pro objective reality.
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#20I stopped watching after she said something about the existence of objective reality.
It is completely unfair to dismiss Rand for any one thing she says or believes. Like any philosophy, the good come with the bad, and Rand has some very thought provoking, if not indisputable, good. And objective reality is not so unintelligent or undebatable to be dismissed at the whim of one sentance.
I'm not dismissing a person. I'm sure in her time she was a nice and friendly person but that doesn't stop me from rejecting her philosophy.