I'm gonna have to recant and go with you on that point
Daniel - good rebut!
--- Technotranscendence <neptune@mars.superlink.net>
wrote:
> On Saturday, May 27, 2000 6:27 PM Dan Adams
> danadams@yahoo.com wrote:
> > It's sad that Rand wasted such a brilliant mind on
> > such a defeatist, "mental-masturbatory"
> philosophy...
>
> I don't completely catch Adams' drift here, though I
> agree that Rand often
> did and her followers often do use her ideas to be
> cynical and smug. Still,
> this speaks more to her and their character than to
> the validity of the
> ideas themselves, especially if one takes off the
> chains. (What chains?
> The chains of taking Rand's philosophy in an all or
> nothing fashion.
> Surely, she encouraged this, but one need not accept
> it. I pick and choose
> and so should Adams.)
>
> > and, before I get flamed for that statement,
>
> Flame on!:)
>
> > I realize
> > we all share her ideals of independence.
> Nonetheless,
> > as one who has studied her work thoroughly, I feel
> > confident (though, granted, not infallible) in
> saying
> > that she turned a golden ideal into an empty
> > rhetoric...
>
> I disagree, though I do think she too often used a
> lot of loaded rhetoric.
> A lot of times, her rhetoric hides the subtleties in
> her writings.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Daniel Ust
> http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/
>
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- Marvin Minsky
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