(June 5, 2012 at 1:07 pm)Tempus Wrote:(June 5, 2012 at 7:17 am)Brian37 Wrote: Holly shit now I have lost what little respect I had for Ayn Rand. She was simply the oposite of Marx and Just as utopian in thought. She was a social Darwinist who would love how the top 1 percent is fucking the rest of us over.
There is no such thing as "metaphyisics", that is just si fi woo. Even more reason to hate her.
The point, which was highlighted in bold, is that you're doing philosophy whether or not you're aware of it. As with an assumption, a philosophy is better carefully examined and chosen (or constructed / synthesised) rather than unknowingly accepted. It seems you've chosen to attack Ayn Rand's positions on other, irrelevant matters rather than actually address the statement which was quoted. In fact, if you remove the name the quote is attributed from my post your reply amounts to 'there is no such thing as "metaphyisics", that is just si fi woo'. Yes, metaphysics was just made up by science fiction authors. Well I'm glad we've settled that and equally glad that your avatar had the thoughtfulness to save me the effort of face-palming.
I am sorry, but she was NOT an economist nor a PHD scientist. She was a play writer and book writer and political pundit. The atheist version of Ann Coulter. All the economic credulity of laymen with the same woo. I can drive a car and know it is not run on pixy dust, I am certainly just as qualified as she claimed to be.
All she did is successfully market an idea. BIG WOOPTY FUCK. She was an ornate writer and had a big vocabulary. SO WHAT. Lemmings are fooled by the ornate.
Ann Coulter and Ayn Rand are BOTH delusional.