Comments on: All The “isms”

By: Clay Barham

Clay Barham — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:22:58 +0000

Is it self-centered greed or legitimate self-interest that is the main concern with those who do not understand Ayn Rand? Those who admire and criticize Ayn Rand’s beliefs about people who stand on their own feet often say she promoted selfishness, thereby greed, which is self-centered and anti-individual creativity. That is anti-Rand. Rand admired the creative individual, people like railroad builder James Jerome Hill, on whom she was reputed to have based her character Nathaniel Taggart in Atlas Shrugged. Independent “I’m OK, you’re OK” people are OK with Rand, not the criminal takers. If we look at Howard Roark’s summation to the jury, from Fountainhead, we do not see a self-centered individual destroying his work. If he was greedy he would have simply accepted his payment. We see an other- and outer-centered individual in love with his own dreams and creations, as one would love a spouse, child or family and refuse to allow them to be assaulted. That is the kind of self-interest that built America. Though love for anything spiritual may be missing, a great idea or vision also measures up to that which is spiritual, beyond self, and that view is not even inconsistent with Christianity. Claysamerica.com.

By: John Donohue

John Donohue — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:55:29 +0000

Your entry for Objectivism, while nominally quite good, contains some vaguely “off” verbiage and one very wrong word. Without quibbling over the first sentence, and leaving your choices for emphasis in the second untouched, I would suggest removing the “The five” as the first two words, but more importantly extracting “libertarianism.” Miss Rand was explicitly clear in rejecting that word and all it stands for. The correct word to indicate her political and economic system is “capitalism.” Thus ‘Central concepts of Objectivism are objectivity, reason, rational self-interest, capitalism and romantic realism.’

By: Christianity is Dead

Christianity is Dead — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:25:46 +0000

Interesting posts you have, though I think Christianity is dead and will be redeemed and brought to fruition and perfection through Thelema. Check out my blog at http://christianityisdead.wordpress.com/ if you will. Love is the law, love under will.