Comments on: "Objectivism" http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/08/25/objectivism/ Politics and Culture from a Catholic perspective. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: American Knight http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/08/25/objectivism/#comment-22947 American Knight Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:27:35 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=11868#comment-22947 McClarey a socialist!!! Now that is funny :) McClarey a socialist!!! Now that is funny :)

]]> By: Donald R. McClarey http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/08/25/objectivism/#comment-22946 Donald R. McClarey Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:12:24 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=11868#comment-22946 "You people are socialists in disguise, just like Jesus as a historical figure was." I have been called many things in my life, but this is the first time I have been called a socialist! That comment is almost as funny as the unintentional humor that suffuses Rand's buffoonish novels. “You people are socialists in disguise, just like Jesus as a historical figure was.”

I have been called many things in my life, but this is the first time I have been called a socialist! That comment is almost as funny as the unintentional humor that suffuses Rand’s buffoonish novels.

]]> By: American Knight http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/08/25/objectivism/#comment-22945 American Knight Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:08:20 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=11868#comment-22945 Alex, It is easy to fall for Ayn Rand she makes a compelling argument, some of it is even correct. What it certainly is not is objective. Objectivism is extremely subjective just take a look at all the Randroids that followed her - they were totally conformed to her in a creepy Single White Female/Cable Guy kind of way. Ayn Rand's philosophy falls apart because, just like Marxism, it is athiestic. As for Jesus being a socialist - come on, you can't be serious! Jesus Christ respects human dignity and socialist can't even spell dignity. For that matter Objectivists view man exactly the same way as socialists. One advocates anarchy to get us to hell and the other advocates collectivism to do the same thing. Chaos is the result which ever extreme you take. The only true objective view is from Heaven and that is the most extremely subjective view possible - God's view. Alex,

It is easy to fall for Ayn Rand she makes a compelling argument, some of it is even correct. What it certainly is not is objective. Objectivism is extremely subjective just take a look at all the Randroids that followed her – they were totally conformed to her in a creepy Single White Female/Cable Guy kind of way.

Ayn Rand’s philosophy falls apart because, just like Marxism, it is athiestic.

As for Jesus being a socialist – come on, you can’t be serious! Jesus Christ respects human dignity and socialist can’t even spell dignity. For that matter Objectivists view man exactly the same way as socialists. One advocates anarchy to get us to hell and the other advocates collectivism to do the same thing. Chaos is the result which ever extreme you take.

The only true objective view is from Heaven and that is the most extremely subjective view possible – God’s view.

]]> By: Joe Hargrave http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/08/25/objectivism/#comment-22944 Joe Hargrave Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:43:39 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=11868#comment-22944 "You people are socialists in disguise, just like Jesus as a historical figure was." I'd rather be mislabeled a socialist by someone like you than accurately labeled an Objectivist by anyone. “You people are socialists in disguise, just like Jesus as a historical figure was.”

I’d rather be mislabeled a socialist by someone like you than accurately labeled an Objectivist by anyone.

]]> By: Alex http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/08/25/objectivism/#comment-22943 Alex Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:32:41 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=11868#comment-22943 The comments on Atlas Shrugged and Ayn Rand's philosophy are generally ridiculous. For example, one of the first comments saying that some producers would basically screw over the others within the strike to gain power, etc., is just plain wrong. The strike as I know about it was based on the morality of production, not on gaining short term benefits. They were striking to make a point. You people are socialists in disguise, just like Jesus as a historical figure was. The comments on Atlas Shrugged and Ayn Rand’s philosophy are generally ridiculous. For example, one of the first comments saying that some producers would basically screw over the others within the strike to gain power, etc., is just plain wrong. The strike as I know about it was based on the morality of production, not on gaining short term benefits. They were striking to make a point.

You people are socialists in disguise, just like Jesus as a historical figure was.

]]> By: elainekrewer http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/08/25/objectivism/#comment-22942 elainekrewer Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:14:33 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=11868#comment-22942 The best (perhaps only) example I can think of of a Randian who "accomplished something" is Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, who was a close associate of Rand in his younger days. However, the merit of his accomplishments are debatable, and he himself admitted after the financial crisis of '08 that some of the economic assumptions he had held most of his life had proven to be wrong. Also, hard-core Objectivists (at least the ones who post on YouTube) consider him a sellout because he strayed from their economic creed in a number of ways. The best (perhaps only) example I can think of of a Randian who “accomplished something” is Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, who was a close associate of Rand in his younger days. However, the merit of his accomplishments are debatable, and he himself admitted after the financial crisis of ’08 that some of the economic assumptions he had held most of his life had proven to be wrong. Also, hard-core Objectivists (at least the ones who post on YouTube) consider him a sellout because he strayed from their economic creed in a number of ways.

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