Re: 20/20 list
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Sat, 23 Oct 1999 16:28:34 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 10/23/99 4:25:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ZGlass9@aol.com
writes:
<< I am quite aware of this, my dear friend. Ms. Rand stood for selfishness
AND
individuality (among many other various things). I also know that she
absolutely deplored cynicism...but I don't think she intended all of her
readers to adopt every single aspect of her philosophy. I think it's best
to
create a potpourri of different philosophies. I find it quite dumb to base
my entire set of ethics and morals on someone else's set of ethics and
morals. If I did that in respect to Ayn Rand's philosophy, wouldn't that be
the greatest contradiction of all?
...andrew
>>
Absolutely...but at the same time, I think Ayn Rand suffered her own brand of
short sightedness, the most significant being that the most interesting
"individuals" (and the most powerful) seem to have been the least
selfish...at least through most of human history.
Course, if Ms. Rand was disturbed at the thought of you adopting her
philosophy wholesale rather than developing your own, she would have to be
thinking of what's best of you, though, eh?
:)
Jim