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As a student of philosophy and, it seems, having a slightly autistic mentality, she had strong emphasis on the underlying principles - philosophic, economical a
by dschiptsov 11y ago
As a student of philosophy and, it seems, having a slightly autistic mentality, she had strong emphasis on the underlying principles - philosophic, economical and social around which she has invented her characters and the plot.
The characters and the settings could be criticized (usually by idiots who couldn't see the whole) for being too idealized and artificial but there is not a single major flaw with principles of free market economy (as a self-sustained and self-healing ecosystem), democracy (as an evolved "immune system" of a civilized society against social parasites and cancer-like corruption of authoritarian regimes) the operating selection on the basis of best performance, which is one of the principles behind evolution itself, etc, etc.
Ask any decent evolutionary biologist, and he would tell you that diversity, specialization, cooperation, selection on the best performance, fairness (as in a coin toss) and law of big numbers (averages) is what is behind life itself.
Verbosity, perhaps, is the only major flaw, but as a work of art it should be placed next to 1984 and Brave New World.
- tamana 11y agoThose of us with an interest in humanity aren't looking for a perfect description of how humans can organize a society around the principles of animal evolution. You also seem confused when you say that Democracy is part of the Objectivist vision. Democracy is mob rule, not individual liberty.
- dschiptsov 11y agoIt is not mob rule, of course. It is a set of mechanisms to remove corrupted or failed officials from power by replacing them with better performers. At least in theory. Are you trying to say that humans are not subjects to "animal evolution" or ecological laws?