Regardless of whether you think it's a steaming pile of crap or a beautifully flawless beacon of enlightenment, it's a pretty interesting philosophy.

Check out any of these links and cast your vote today. And yes, your votes will be public so a few of you will have to overcome your wussitis if you wish to participate.

Objectivism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Objectivism (Ayn Rand) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Ayn Rand Institute: The Philosophy of Objectivism: A Brief Summary

Crap! I forgot to make it public and I can't change it! &^%$#@!

With only two real answers, you have an all-or-nothing poll here. That's one big problem with polls...

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I expected teh subtitle to be "Bait" (where's del?)

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Look on you tube for the Rand and Rand Society videos. Rand actually comes across as a person I would like talking to, but would feel very sorry for. So lonely.

Her acolytes are very much entertaining and they destroy most opposing factions with great skill.


gotta love Phil, he was so much fairer than any media figure then or since.

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"I am not so much for State's rights as I am for the people's rights."

Nice clip!

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ayn rand likes charlie's angels because "it's a a romantic show. not realistic" it is not about the gutter, it's not about half wit retarded children..."?




gawd, that woman was funny. I watched those shows.

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"I am not so much for State's rights as I am for the people's rights."

Objectivism has some good points. The poll is too black and white.

The problem with objectivism is that it would never work in the current U.S. of 300 million people. It would be a disaster.

On the other hand, if you had a small society and assembled the type of people John Galt manages to put together, it would probably be the ideal.

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Black and white, just like the choices in November.

But seriously, if you don't think it's a scalable model, then it's a steaming pile of crap. Trying to find an in-between opinion is a fool's errand.

the Rand Society clips had me thinking again. great speakers, lousy people.


see Milton Friedman on greed:


and the 40 video link

searching the youtube for navy_nuke on objectivism (how could he resist?)

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"I am not so much for State's rights as I am for the people's rights."

to quote Rand: "romantic" "not realistic"



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"I am not so much for State's rights as I am for the people's rights."

I think objectivism can be summed up quite nicely by a message I saw posted on the internet:

My friendship comes with no benefits.

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Objectivist libertarianism shares one major flaw with that of Communism.

BOTH expect people to change their basic natures.

The Commies expected people to fall in line with communism.

The objectivist Libertarians expect the losers of their cozy system to go off quietly and die.

NEITHER SYSTEM WILL WORK because both refuse to accept human nature.

I disagree.

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I don't really think we do. You said yourself it isn't scalable. I'd guess your hangup is on my use of strong language (steaming pile of crap). What if instead I said something like "Too flawed to be of any real value."

Still, better than not at all...no?