zantonavitch Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 An interesting short story I just ran across. God knows who wrote it or why: http://leonardpeikoff.tumblr.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francisco Ferrer Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Log in required. How about a quick summary? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Something's wrong. I needed no log in and I've never been there before.--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francisco Ferrer Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Thanks, I tried it and now I'm in. . .I'm back. Bah, a waste of time. Read the original instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zantonavitch Posted February 23, 2015 Author Share Posted February 23, 2015 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 It's not a bad attempt, but Peikoff doesn't deserve this making it crap.--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Brant Gaede Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Thanks, I tried it and now I'm in. . .I'm back. Bah, a waste of time. Read the original instead.I think Poe has been described as "the first modern writer [of fiction]."--Brantdidn't he die drunk in the gutter? (Americans drank in those days like they've never drunk since) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zantonavitch Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 ...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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 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.--BrantI don't go for Star Chambers either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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