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If the USA goes then it all goes, i.e. Western Civilization. We will collapse into another Dark Age. Rand identified the cause plus the solution and argued for
by dmfdmf 7y ago
If the USA goes then it all goes, i.e. Western Civilization. We will collapse into another Dark Age.
Rand identified the cause plus the solution and argued for it for 50 years before she died. The cause is epistemology or the branch of Philosophy that studies "How Do You Know...". The status & respect for reason has been under assault by bad philosophers for 200 years now and this is the culmination.
- voisin 7y ago>> If the USA goes then it all goes, i.e. Western Civilization. We will collapse into another Dark Age. Source?
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- lidHanteyk 7y agoThe problem with this is that evidence suggests that Rand was a meatbag. Indeed, evidence suggests that all humans are meatbags, without exception, and further, that humans have been meatbags for at least several centuries. Rand's philosophical criticism cannot get off the ground unless humans are ensouled, inspired, or otherwise special compared to other animals.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. A large open internet forum isn't able to host a deep discussion about such questions. It inevitably devolves into repeating the same predictable things, and predictable things are tedious and therefore off-topic here. If you really want to go into something like this, a better medium would be to write a book. Alternatively, write a journal article, or a letter to the editor of a journal. Those messages are long enough, and infrequent enough, to support conversations which are more than just shallow repetitions of what has been said before. They're also filtered in ways that, while they no doubt exclude outliers of originality, also exclude dreck. The open internet doesn't have that, so quantity dominates quality. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html