Philosophy class is a scam, they teach only left wing socialist whack job theories of ethics and morals, and discussing nothing of Rand. I hated philo
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No way. This can't be. Not a hyper-Christian Randroid. That's just too insane for words.
(BTW, my philosophy class *did* cover Rand, at least briefly. One of the other posters says it's a good thing they don't present Rand, as they'd butcher it. I'd say Rand does a pretty good job of butchering it herself.)
See, the problem with Rand is that her philosophies were inherently fundamentalist in their own right -- Randian Objectivism, essentially, is radical libertarianism combined with a cult of personality. I think the reason it's not taken too seriously in academia is that it's really rather simplistic and snotty, as well as rigidly inflexible in its principles.
I wonder if the Randroids ever stop to notice that none of them ever have much of a grounding in philosophy. If they do , I wonder whether they just assume this is part of some giant left-wing conspiracy in philosophy departments. (Because really...philosophy is not a left-wing discipline, at least in the U.S. Hell, most of the specifically leftist philosophy-types were effectively banished to Comparative Literature departments...)
I myself am an Objectivist, and I am quite frankly glad that this person didn't study Rand's work. They obviously have no idea about Rand's life and ideas, and that Rand would probably not suffer a person like this.
In the phil class I'm taking right now, we read some articles from Rand with no teacher commentary. It was the students who brought them up in class and bashed them. I fucking hated Rand, because she was a delusional, narrow-minded asshat. And no one had to tell me that.
First, I'll cross- post these links someone shared with me in another thread, in which Christians delude themselves into believing Rand was a Christian fundie too. They manage to do a lot of green ideas sleep furiously in the process, something Rand herself also excelled at.
To address the OP: That's because real philosophy makes Randian Objectivism look like the ramblings of a semi-literate juvenile reactionary. Her "philosophy" is simple- minded, demonstrably untrue in parts and challenges the bible in its failure to attain internal consistency.
Ironically enough, this "Christian" probably rejected Kant, Descartes and Pascal out of hand, but bemoans the lack of time devoted to an ardent atheist. Plus, Rand stole more than a couple of thoughts and arguments from "left wing socialist whack jobs" like Marx and Nietzsche, but didn't suffer from their terrifying clarity of vision (I actually just wanted to quote that phrase; points to whoever gets it).
Ayn Rand's overlying principle:
The rich make all the rules, everyone else are servants.
The fundie churchs agree with that so they've embrassed it, filtered out the Atheist leanings as they filter out most the Bible. Make no mistake, Fundamentalist leaders want total control of the wealth, lands and people. They have no use for a democrated, free people America, they are right-wing overlords in their own minds.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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