From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Thu May 09 2002 - 15:04:45 MDT
Brian D Williams wrote:
>
> I haven't tackled "Atlas Shrugged" yet, having just finished "The
> Fountainhead" on the train in today. I was thinking of taking a
> break with an autobiography of Gabriel "Coco" Chanel first.
>
> Objectivism contains many odd premises, under Metaphysics it
> contains the line "Thus Objectivism rejects any belief in the
> supernatural-and any claim that individuals or groups create their
> own reality."
>
> The first part I have no particular problems with, but the second
> part seems ridiculous. Man is the measure, everyone and every group
> creates their own realities. If they don't think reality can be
> created wait till they meet nanotechnology and the singularity.
I don't think Rand had nanotech in mind. The idea that 'individuals
create their own reality' is in reference to left wing social engineers
who thought that they could change physical law and human nature through
propaganda, revisionism, and outright physical force to make people
believe what isn't.
>
> It seems they counter their own claim when under "Human Nature"
> they state: "But the exercise of reason depends on each
> individual's choice".
>
> Maybe we should start a counter-philosophy called "Subjectivism" ;)
You are free to believe in the objective reality of the universe or not.
Not believing in it does not make it not so.
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