 Go Well, Chris Lewis!
by Lindsay Perigo
Whenever he'd been interviewed as a sports star, Chris had been a cut above your stereotypical athlete or any other kind of celebrity. He reeked of individualism. He was serious-minded, high-minded and single-minded to a fault. He was articulate and fierce and proud. He didn't utter the usual sickening bromides about how he owed it all to everyone else. He had, in fact, literally slept on railway benches during his quest for tennis ascendancy. He had, as it turned out, read The Fountainhead as a youngster and been inspired by it for life. (Read more...)
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 A Nostalgic July 4th Offering
by Lindsay Perigo
On Jefferson's Memorial are quoted his words, "I have pledged eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the minds of men." I echo that pledge today — and direct it especially against that most insidious form of tyranny, mob rule. (Read more...)
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 The French Paradox, American Angst ... and NOSA
by Lindsay Perigo
Could this be the true "French Paradox": that Americans, with a tradition of muscular individualism, disdain for bullshit, and love of life, have become a nation of whining psychobabble-sissies … while the French, steeped in religion, nonsense, self-denial and reality-evasion … have become a nation of life-affirmers?! (Read more...)
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Let The Word Go Forth: The Torch Is Passed To A New Generation ... !
by Lindsay Perigo
It is with great pleasure, and not a small degree of relief, that I announce the appointment of Jason Dixon to the position currently held by me of Editor of SOLOHQ. (Read more...)
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Life's Too Short
by Lindsay Perigo
Because of SOLOC 4, SOLO is set to move ahead in leaps and bounds even if just one tenth of the projects that were mooted there proceed. It was, quite simply, historic. Aside from that, it was life-enriching in a way we're all struggling to put into words. None of us will ever forget it. (Read more...)
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 Perigo Renounces Objectivism
by Lindsay Perigo
Just kidding, folks. Actually, this is just to assure y'all that the current article lull, brought about by the editor's absence at SOLOC 4 & other delights, will end shortly when I return to NZ. Normal transmission will resume as soon as possible ... thank you for your patience. :-)
Linz (Read more...)
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The Pope, Objectivism ... and "The Best Within"
by Lindsay Perigo
In the west, it has been monopolised by Christianity for two thousand years. Now, we Objectivists must wrest the ground that is rightfully ours from the mystic imposters who still occupy it. (Read more...)
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Writers' Report Cards!
by Lindsay Perigo
Did you imagine for a second that the slave-labour status of your literary/polemical efforts on SOLOHQ rendered those efforts immune from ruthless critical scrutiny by The Founder and Slave-Master? You poor, deluded fools! Abandon hope! Prepare to meet thy doom! (Read more...)
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Wednesday
February 2, 2005 |
Happy Birthday, Ayn Rand!
by Lindsay Perigo
May all lovers of reason and freedom pause and acknowledge their debt! (Read more...)
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Sicking The Saddamites - Introduction
by Lindsay Perigo
Yes, we understand that democracy is no guarantor of freedom. We understand that grave perils still lie ahead for Iraq. But we understand also that the first, fitful steps towards a culture of freedom in the Middle East have been taken. Beheaders, car-bombers and their Saddamite fellow-travellers notwithstanding. (Read more...)
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 Seven Deadly Sins
by Lindsay Perigo
Seven Deadly Sins ought to be enough to be going on with. As will be readily apparent, they are overlapping and mutually reinforcing ... I hope that in getting my exasperation with them off my chest, I have written something of value to the reader in his quest for Nem-status and eudaimonia. It can be summed up as follows:
This above all, thine own self create, and to it forever be true …
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The Pitfall Of Passivism
by Lindsay Perigo
To be a passivist is to be vulnerable to dogmatists pretending to know it all, when in fact they are no more qualified to live your life than you are to live theirs. It is to risk abandoning the virtue of independence in favour of conformity to someone else’s dictates. (Read more...)
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 Holiday Reprise (With Extras) - Esthetics as the Barometer of the State of our Culture
by Lindsay Perigo
Editor's note: This is the first of an occasional reprise over the holiday period of earlier SOLOHQ articles. This one is inspired by the post I have quoted from Michael Newberry on a current thread here.
Respect for reason gives rise to respect for the right to exercise it - freedom. Freedom gives rise to prosperity & enormous diversity, including ideas & art works that are inimical to it. Against such ideas & art, while defending to the death their right to exist, we should be eternally vigilant. (Read more...)
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Will It Finally Sink In This Time?
by Lindsay Perigo
(Author's note - I am obliged to Pete for posting the link that inspired this article.)
"God works in mysterious ways" is really a euphemism for "God works in indefensible ways." And that is a pointer to the bottom line reality: there’s no such entity working in any such way; God simply ain’t there. (Read more...)
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Salutations, SOLOists!
by Lindsay Perigo
Next year will see SOLOC 4 in Los Angeles—a chance for all SOLOists to put faces to NEMs. For details of that, and a whole lot more, stay tuned. If you thought 2004 was a KASS-blast, you ain’t seen nuttin’ yet! (Read more...)
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Rousseau And Kant - Partners In Crime
by Lindsay Perigo
Objectivists looking to promote a renaissance of Enlightenment values may legitimately identify Kant’s teachings as pernicious; let us not, however, overlook the influence of his partner-in-crime, Rousseau. (Read more...)
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A Response To Robert Bidinotto
by Lindsay Perigo
A friend who doesn’t speak the truth as he sees it is not a friend at all, in my book. And yes, it cuts both ways. (Read more...)
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Thursday
November 25, 2004 |
A Thanksgiving For The Best Of All Mankind
by Lindsay Perigo
It's fitting on such an occasion to extend a broader salute to the best of humanity across the globe who epitomise the explosive flowering of reason and freedom nurtured by that magnificent document, The Declaration of Independence. For me personally this means a hymn of unstinting praise to the following, among others: (Read more...)
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Of Orion, Islam ... and the Contest of Ideas
by Lindsay Perigo
The long & the short of this is that I have no perfect answer - but I'm always going to err on the side of the open exchange of ideas, even though I'm under no obligation to. We've all always known that upholding freedom of expression means upholding that freedom for its least attractive practitioners, as Ayn Rand once put it. (Read more...)
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The Matter Of Matt
by Lindsay Perigo
Most of the time I have kept quiet, in the interests of free & open discussion, which is part of Objectivism as it might be and ought to be. Occasionally I have exploded - & then the issue has become ... not appeasement, not Saddamism, not the filth that is Islam, not the mass torture/murder that Osama/Saddam want to install in place of everything we hold dear ... none of those things ... the issue has become: Linz hurt someone's feelings. (Read more...)
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 "Logic Has Nothing To Do With Reality." Yeah, Right!
by Lindsay Perigo
An attack on the perversion of philosophy exemplified in contemporary academia, which attack sparked a long exchange on the nature of logic, in which even David Kelley weighed in on the side of logic divorced from empirical fact. (Read more...)
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Listen Up!
by Lindsay Perigo
In lieu of a regular article tonight is this irregular article by me *about* articles! (Read more...)
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Philosophy For Life
by Lindsay Perigo
Part of a dialogue with a contemporary philosophy teacher. (Read more...)
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 (Im)Pertinent Post-Script!
by Lindsay Perigo
The imminent arrival of The Free Radical 64 has prompted its editor to reflect, in his usual helpful way, on the manner in which an allied publication could be - and desperately needs to be - improved, by the injection of KASS. See the Post-Script to the following related, context-providing review from The Free Radical, April, 2002. (Read more...)
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How Marcus Was Won!
by Lindsay Perigo
[Editor's Note - Accompanying this article on SOLOHQ today is one by Marcus Bachler. It struck me as an opportune moment to recall a time, not so long ago, when Marcus was neither a libertarian nor an Objectivist. The following is republished from The Free Radical 46, in which I penned an editorial, Mollifying Marcus, responding to various points critical of free market economics and the Objectivist esthetics that Marcus had written in the previous issue. I offer this, not to gloat or boast (after all, coming round was ultimately Marcus's own work), but as affectionate evidence that in the war for men's minds, there are sometimes victories.] (Read more...)
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