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Half of this story is copied from Edgar Allan Poe. The rest is updated to today and modern Objectivism. Like Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness (1899) adapted to Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now (1979).

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...Peikoff doesn't deserve this making it crap.

Hasn't Peikoff damaged the hell out of the Objectivist Movement by treating the philosophy as a religion and promoting cultism? Haven't all his excommunications and rewritings of history hurt the spirit of the private adherents, and made Objectivism a type of public laughing stock? Hasn't Peikoff and his allies slowed the progress of man via not allowing this vivid philosophical alternative to monotheistic-based right-wing conservatism and collectivist-based left-wing progressivism to show itself in a more normal, healthy, appealing, charming light? How does Peikoff not deserve this short story?

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Peikoff is merely the extension in action of the model created by Rand and Branden expressed most in NBI in the 1960s. I'm sorry I got too nuanced. I just had no way to say he deserves a little less than this that made communicative sense. Therefore I'll approach this from my angle, not his, and this article we are talking about as a Poe take-off is clever but illustrates nothing. If the idea is merely to take Peikoff down I've a different orientation for I've been taking him down for decades but always in the context of saying why I'm doing it and this author doesn't. Since he doesn't Peikoff doesn't deserve this by which I mean nobody does except who wrote it and put it out as backlash.

--Brant

I don't go for Star Chambers either

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Peikoff is merely the extension in action of the model created by Rand and Branden expressed most in NBI in the 1960s.

If there is truth to this, I wonder if NBI - ARI could be considered the creation-evolution of a (sort of) 'political wing' of Objectivism? Political organisations, with their leaders, power vacuums, divisions, power brokering and power-jockeying run against the spirit of Objectivism to my mind. In self-defence and for now, an Objectivist may have to call himself "Independent", as Peter Taylor does, risking redundancy.

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Peikoff is merely the extension in action of the model created by Rand and Branden expressed most in NBI in the 1960s.

If there is truth to this, I wonder if NBI - ARI could be considered the creation-evolution of a (sort of) 'political wing' of Objectivism? Political organisations, with their leaders, power vacuums, divisions, power brokering and power-jockeying run against the spirit of Objectivism to my mind. In self-defence and for now, an Objectivist may have to call himself "Independent", as Peter Taylor does, risking redundancy.

They don't do a good job with it regardless.

--Brant

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