He's got a point...

[ebonlock]

Brad R. sums up Randians:

Y’know how some people can have completely fucked up political beliefs and still be good people on a personal level? Has anyone else noticed that that is never the case for Randians, who on a political and personal level are the biggest fucking douchebags in the entire godless world?

Comments

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

Precisely! Very well put, thanks. :)

[scar-let.livejournal.com]

I think part of the problem is with Ayn Rand herself. I can buy into the pursuit of happiness, but I'm not so sure that sits wells next to her ideas about rational egoism. So, we're not supposed to coerce others or be coerced by others in the pursuit of happiness...but how does that figure into capitalism? In my experience, capitalism is all about coercion. I've also yet to see how capitalism emphasizes individualism...corporate capitalism certainly doesn't.

[ebongreen.livejournal.com]

As you say in more words, Objectivism is a nice philosophy for a vacuum - an ideal space in which no human has power (for weal or woe) over any other. Sadly (or not), we do not live in such a world.

[scar-let.livejournal.com]

Well...I wouldn't even say that it's a nice philosophy. Check out Rand's ideas about the appropriate power dynamics between men and women.