| Score one for the free market economy.
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| <i>""The intrinsic theory," charges Ayn Rand, "divorces the concept of
'good' from beneficiaries, and the concept of 'value' from valuer and
purpose—claiming that the good is good in, by, and of itself""</i>
Rand
was a fuckhead and deep down she knew it–this is why she hated
existentialism. All concepts of good are aesthetic judgements, the
responsibility of the one who sees the world to make. To believe that
your worldview is entirely a product of reason and rational
interpretation and still possess anything close to a human mindset–in
short, to be anything other than incurably, inexorably insane–is false.
It is an abrogation of the responsibility of a human being to own their
beliefs, to be aware of them as a product of their actions and not of some external, unimpeachable force.
To equate the rampant waste of human production and consumerist society–to equate fucking Coca-fucking-cola with, say, a heart transplant as a measure of how wonderful our world is because of technology–to say boo consumerism=boo technology and growth exposes the sickeningly partisan and anachronistic Cold War thinking that Rand was a bloatedly obvious example of. |
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