Ayn Rand stinker.

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Af Steven 🌞 Snedker den 8. juni 2017 - 10:20 [12]

Ayn Rand stinker. Hendes tanker er primitive, halvbagte og ligegyldige. Hendes sprog og intriger er som L:Ron:Hubbards: sølle.

Men jeg har vist aldrig kastet en bunke links herind, der til evig tid kan minde alle interesserede om hvorfor Rand er spildtid. Men det kommer nu, gør det så.

"The fallacy that is at the heart of Rand’s political-economic philosophy is the fallacy of mistaking a necessary condition for a sufficient condition. This is elementary logic. A necessary condition is something that is needed in order to make something else happen. A plant must have water, for example, in order to thrive. But a necessary condition is not the same as a sufficient condition — that is, something that provides everything needed for something else to happen. Water is not sufficient to make a plant thrive. Other ingredients are needed, like soil and sunlight.

Ayn Rand’s philosophy is above all a defense of the entrepreneur. The economic value of goods and services that we find on the market is created by entrepreneurs — people who had the idea, pursued the vision, marshaled the resources, managed production, and shepherded products to market.

One can agree with this point by saying that the entrepreneur is a necessary condition for the creation of economic value. But Rand treats the entrepreneur as a sufficient condition. The entrepreneur creates the value of goods and everyone else gets in his way (in Rand the pronoun is always “he,” even when he is a woman). Governments are leeches on the value he creates; organized labor siphons off more of it. Who could blame the hero of Atlas Shrugged, John Galt, and his like if they should take their marbles and head off to form their own society, leaving the parasites behind?

But in truth the entrepreneur, though very much a necessary condition for the production of economic value, is not a sufficient condition. An entrepreneur will get nowhere without a capitalist or a government agency in charge of a budget to finance his or her ideas; the production will require a labor force; it will need to make use of public infrastructure and a framework of the rule of law; and the fruits of the production will be of no value if no one wants them. Thus the creators, entrepreneurs, investors, taxpayers, legislators, jurists, workers, and consumers are all necessary conditions for the production of the value that we find in the marketplace; but none of them, including the entrepreneur, is a sufficient condition: none can make it happen alone.

It is this very fundamental and seemingly obvious fact that Rand’s thinking seeks to distort."

http://crosscut.com/2012/08/ayn-rand-seattle-u-philosophy-professor/

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Steven Snedkers billede

Hårdhændet behandling af skørt materiale

owl232.net - Critique of The Objectivist Ethics

Steven Snedkers billede

Sam Harris (pbuh) har som altid også en masse gode pointer

samharris.org - How to Lose Readers (Without Even Trying)

Steven Snedkers billede

Her er lidt om hvorfor Dostojevski er fantastisk og hvorfor Dan Brown er skrammel. Ayn Rand ligger meget tættere på Dan Brown end Dostojevski.

plus.google.com - Til kamp for den gode litteratur. http://videnskab.dk/kultur-samfund/ny-forsk...

Steven Snedkers billede

Lidt lang, fik kun læst halvdelen, men skildrer virkeligheden ret godt, så vidt, jeg kan se

ruthlessreviews.com - Ayn Rand’s Objectivism: The Cult of The Dirty Diaper

Steven Snedkers billede

Men ikke et ondt ord om Nietzsche, nu vi er i nabolaget. Han var både morsom, intelligent og velskrivende.

youtube.com - The School of Life

Steven Snedkers billede

Og heller ikke et ondt ord om Dostojevski

youtube.com - LITERATURE - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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"Rand was broken by the Bolsheviks as a girl, and she never left their bootprint behind. She believed her philosophy was Bolshevism's opposite, when in reality it was its twin. Both she and the Soviets insisted a small revolutionary elite in possession of absolute rationality must seize power and impose its vision on a malleable, imbecilic mass. The only difference was that Lenin thought the parasites to be stomped on were the rich, while Rand thought they were the poor."

slate.com - Two biographies of Ayn Rand.

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Der er opstået en nyreligiøs bevægelse omkring hendes værker, med tilhængere som søger deres ubetvivlelige dogmer deri.

Steven Snedkers billede

"Hardcore libertarianism is a fantasy. It’s a fantasy where the strongest and most self-reliant folks end up at the top of the heap, and a fair number of men share the fantasy that they are these folks. They believe they’ve been held back by rules and regulations designed to help the weak, and in a libertarian culture their talents would be obvious and they’d naturally rise to positions of power and influence.

Most of them are wrong, of course. In a truly libertarian culture, nearly all of them would be squashed like ants—mostly by the same people who are squashing them now. But the fantasy lives on regardless."

motherjones.com - Here's why libertarians are mostly men

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Ja, dette er et dumt spørgsmål med et nemt svar, men det er der kun fordi spam-robotter er for dumme til at besvare den slags, mens mennesker ikke er.
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