March 22, 2022
I read Ayn Rand in High School and thought her depiction of left wing philosophy was so extreme as to be hard to believe and must be an exaggeration. I was young and idealistic. Atlas Shrugged was finished in 1957. She called her philosophy Objectivism to emphasize its focus on objective reality as its foundation as opposed to untethered subjectivism.
Now, 65 years later, our schools have been taken over by "critical theory†and "post modernism†which directly reject objective reality and replaces it with a complicated mishmash of subjective theory.
Such modern philosophers critique objective reality as something
imagined by the privileged white patriarchy and feel free to create
their own reality. The perfect example is to reject basic biology and
assert that sex is a social construct which must be "deconstructed.
The final result is that young people are taught not to believe in
objective reality. They should not trust science or logic or their own
eyes or judgment. They should not be proud of their accomplishments
The resulting sheep produced by such education are afraid of their own shadow since that can’t trust their own judgment. There is no pride in achievement, since achievement is the undeserved result of belonging to privileged groups. The only moral category in this world is to be a "victim†and therefore to deserve compensation from your oppressors. "Social Justice Warriors†fight among themselves as to who is the biggest victim and deserves the most compensation.
It sounds like some weird science fiction satire/parody written by Kurt Vonnegut. It is modern philosophy.
Ayn Rand was a prophetess.
If you think philosophy is unimportant, look around you and see the world it has created.
It’s axiomatic that followers of cult thinking need a Leader. The less they know, the less they can reflect and extrapolate the more they want to give ‘reason’ to the Leader. Some of us remember Jonestown. Many never gave it a thought, because there were so many incapable of thought. Ayn Rand was in a lot of ways a terror to her associates, a dangerous "friend". That didn't take away from her acute perceptions though, any more than "mean tweets " took away from Trump's message and intent for freedom.
Tim adds:
Well said Bob! I especially liked the magic part. That is exactly what we have become, necromancers who believe we can change reality by an effort of will and belief. Witchcraft is the sin of the modern age.
Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered is the anthem of our time!
It is a rejection of Western rationalism. It was that rationalism that made the West the rulers of the world; we didn't just wait around hoping, but found ways to do what we desired. It gave us industry, intensive agriculture, modes of travel, energy, etc.
What we are doing is picking at the fundamental core of our civilization. Nietzche warned of this; he said science would eventually undermine itself by questioning and disavowing it's basic beliefs, that things are rational and ordered. We have largely done that in our post-modern America.
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