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I don’t know where this guy has been studying or reading about Objectivism. What he says here and elsewhere is understandable, but inaccurate.
2025-03-23 22:08:28.199 / 3ll3ax4t5sc2e
This is a stereotype and near-caricature generalization of all Objectivists driven by bias as indicated by the glaring inaccuracy in the philosophy’s description.
2025-03-23 22:08:28.200 / 3ll3ax673322e
A consistent Objectivist will not come to the conclusion that rationality is an inborn trait or an inherent practice in someone’s consciousness by nature. This is demonstrated superficially by the fact that Rand wrote a book titled Philosophy: Who Needs It? …
2025-03-23 22:08:28.201 / 3ll3ax674zk2e
where she outlines that a person must learn to exercise judgment on perceptions with curiosity to appropriately face reality and act in accordance to their goals. The goal of the book is to justify that education, because it’s not innate in anyone, as easily observed in the world.
2025-03-23 22:08:28.202 / 3ll3ax676y22e
This conclusion requires probing in the abstract into the minds of others through their actions and expressions with a sensitive enough empathy to consider them as existing and human as oneself. This empathy is also the basis for the protection of individual rights.
2025-03-23 22:08:28.203 / 3ll3ax67awk2e
Nick’s analysis of Objectivism is quite incomplete when it paints it as solely an obsolete group of irrational fundamentalists rationalizing their self-centered behaviors through obtuse language that boils down to their feelings.
2025-03-23 22:08:28.204 / 3ll3ax67bvs2e
Having been part of that group my entire life, and still carrying the torch of Objectivism today, I can tell you he’s wrong. Objectivists often disagree with each other, resulting in several organizations herding cats.
2025-03-23 22:08:28.205 / 3ll3ax67duc2e
For example, I vehemently disagree with Peikoff’s conclusions and administrative actions and believe the Ayn Rand Institute should close its doors having failed to deliver on its promise.
2025-03-23 22:08:28.206 / 3ll3ax67etk2e
I suspect if I were to state that the Idealists were more solipsistic than Objectivists in their epistemology, with all the connotations that entails (a lack of empathy for example), he might object, …
2025-03-23 22:08:28.207 / 3ll3ax67gs22e
perhaps complaining I don’t know what I’m talking about as an intellectually incurious fundamentalist incapable of empathy.
2025-03-23 22:08:28.208 / 3ll3ax67hrc2e
If he had any self-awareness he would not, but, he already has done so in the set up. He writes statements like this, but we are to believe it’s the Objectivists that present a dangerous problem to solve when attempting a proper society.
2025-03-23 22:08:28.209 / 3ll3ax67jps2e
Objectivists, as a solid rule, lack the empathy and curiosity to relinquish their close-minded and harmful ways and become enlightened—abandoning their self-proclaimed rationalism in favor of…
2025-03-23 22:08:28.210 / 3ll3ax67kp22e
I actually don’t know what, but whatever it is it will appropriately take into account other people, and only those other people.
2025-03-23 22:08:28.211 / 3ll3ax67mnk2e
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