QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Sun 11th January 2009, 1:12am)
QUOTE(tarantino @ Sat 10th January 2009, 6:52pm)
Great post, Milton. WR has missed you.
Why, thank you. (IMG:
smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif) It’s good to be back alive. I’ll reply a bit more in the vacation lounge thread.
Yeah, you lucky such and such. Off scuba diving in Palau.
While we're sitting here freezing our balls off and reading Lar's blather.
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But look, we need to simply back off and see where Rand came from. She was a Russian Jewish girl whose family store had been stolen by Communists. She was pissed off about this all her life, and had every right to be. She identified the problem as the "State" (particularly the heavily socialist state) seeking to demand the same kinds of self-sacrifice from individuals that ordinarily they are willing only to make to their closer kin-groups, for example their children. The maffia Rand would have understood; the Communists she never did. But instead of merely recognising that the Communists are just a bigger variety of the maffia-- a bunch of psychpathic bastards who demand that you sacrifice you and yours, for them and theirs, Rand went looking for some philosophical underpinnings to the likes of Lenin and Stalin. And for some reason (God knows why) she fastened on poor Kant. But it wasn't Immanual Kants' deathcamps and secret police. Paranoid psychos like Stalin or Saddam don't need Kant to put such things in place. Reality is so much simpler.
Well put, thank you. Funny isn't it?
Come to Wikipedia Review, and have reasonably well-mannered discussions with actual, degreed students of philosophy.
Or go to Wikipedia, the so-called "reference", and if you're lucky, and Lar and his ilk haven't fixed it yet.......read crap like
this.
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