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> As a teenager, I read Ayn Rand on how any work that needed to be done day after day was meaningless, and that only creating new things was a worthwhile endeav
by javert 12y ago
> As a teenager, I read Ayn Rand on how any work that needed to be done day after day was meaningless, and that only creating new things was a worthwhile endeavor.
Ayn Rand advocated the exact opposite of this. (i.e., that all productive work is morally worthwile.)
I stopped reading here. Lying about Ayn Rand is not respectable journalism, though attacking Rand is now a badge of honor among certain groups.
- quadrangle 12y agoWell, yes. Ayn Rand was opposed to make-work but not to valuable, real work. That said, it's baffling to specify that "Lying about Ayn Rand is not respectable…" as though other sorts of lies are. Attacking Rand in general is like attacking astrology. People attack it because too many others actually believe the bullshit nonsense that it is. Of course, it's pretty dumb to attack it for the wrong reasons like in this case. There's plenty of valid reasons to dismiss Rand's nonsense without needing to mis-characterize her views.
- javert 12y agoWhat do you think is wrong with Ayn Rand? I'm an extremely intelligent person, I've studied her work for many years, and I think she's right. And there are a lot of people like me, and the number is increasing. (I'm not making an argument from authority here; i.e., that is not an argument that she is right.) edit: And I take it for granted that lying is not generally acceptable. I didn't mean to imply that it's worse to lie about Ayn Rand than something else. another edit: And I don't mean to goad you into discussing this. If you say you don't want to get into a huge philosophical discussion, I'm not going to say "see, you don't have any argument" or some crap like that.