Tuesday
September 14, 2004 |
 'Romance and Rationalism' Revisited and Revised
by Lindsay Perigo
This is a revision and expansion of a Free Radical editorial, penned before the founding of SOLO, updated to take into account the current furore on SOLOHQ re homosexuality. (Read more...)
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When Men Become Nem
by Lindsay Perigo
The events of our age make it starkly clear that humanity is at a crossroads in its evolution, as critical as was the transition from perceptual to conceptual thought. (Read more...)
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The SOLO Credo
by Lindsay Perigo
"SOLO kicks ass first, then takes names. Then it kicks ass again."
Perigo at TOC-Vancouver, 2004.
A slight tweaking of SOLO's Credo, accommodating recent achievements, writings and developments. (Read more...)
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 Thirty Great Crapolae Of Our Time
by Lindsay Perigo
A by-no-means-exhaustive litany of nonsense and nincompoopery, poppycock and piffle, bunkum and balderdash of this, the Age of Crap ... in no particular order. (Read more...)
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 Objectivism - A Thumbnail Sketch
by Lindsay Perigo
Ayn Rand herself, relative to other philosophers, didn't write "volumes." In terms of quality & import, however, she out-wrote most of them combined & multiplied. Some philosophers (not many) had argued discretely for one or more of the above; she integrated ALL of it & brought esthetics into the mix as well. (Read more...)
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Of Belly-Laughers and Anal-Retentives
by Lindsay Perigo
A genuine belly-laugh is the mark of a genuine human being & is just as important as a sharp mind. The belly-laugh is the barometer of one's joie de vivre & openness; one should never trust the man who cannot belly-laugh, since it is very likely that the cause of his condition is that he is hiding something at best or is a solipsistic sociopath at worst. (Read more...)
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In Praise of Anger!
by Lindsay Perigo
Here’s a swamp-song that works on the cause via the effect. Intense passion is the effect of profound conviction. This song says that intense passion is improper, unseemly, bad form, or, in modern parlance, "uncool." (Read more...)
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  Seminal Centenary
by Lindsay Perigo
Next year is the centenary of Ayn Rand’s birth. The bumptious anti-intellectual with the short attention span had better watch out. At that time, I shall not only be "preoccupied" with Objectivism ... I shall be veritably obsessed with it! (Read more...)
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Affirming Life
by Lindsay Perigo
Is a viable, secular alternative to religion possible? Can life have meaning without an after-life? If there is no god to inspire ideals & prescribe values, can there be any other source? Can man discover it? Theologians & philosophers alike have answered these questions with a resounding, No! (Read more...)
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TOC, SOLO ... and KASS
by Lindsay Perigo
The future of western civilisation rests with Objectivism. The future of Objectivism rests with us, the non-religious bearers of the torch. "TOC, SOLO ... and KASS" is not just a cute title. It bespeaks *our* rendezvous with history. (Read more...)
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 Thrash The Blighters!
by Lindsay Perigo
Daily floggings wouldn't cure them - there is no cure for women known to man - but they'd certainly be very satisfying to administer. (Read more...)
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by Lindsay Perigo
So why is the editor, your beloved Founder, screaming? (Read more...)
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Taxing Fundamentals
by Lindsay Perigo
"We already intend to tax everything in sight," says Alliance leader Jim Neanderton; "now it's time to think of taxing things *out* of sight. (Read more...)
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 Reason's Evangelist
by Lindsay Perigo
Colonel Ingersoll remains to this day one of American history's best-kept secrets. A crusader for freedom of thought & expression against the widespread Christian authoritarianism of his time, it was said of him that were it not for his anti-religious beliefs, he would assuredly have become President. (Read more...)
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 Desert Island Discs
by Lindsay Perigo
This soprano is one of the world's best-kept secrets. The most voluptuous-voiced prima donna ever! Again, a custom CD that contains, at minimum, her Rachmaninoff Vocalise, Songs of the Auvergne, her "Dream Duets" with Sergio Franchi, highlights from Die Fledermaus, her German recording of Vissi d'Arte, her German operetta recordings ... OK, maybe there are two or three custom CDs here! (Read more...)
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A Salute to Ronald Reagan
by Lindsay Perigo
Farewell, Mr. President - hero, legend. And thank you. You ushered in a new morning for America. You destroyed the "evil empire." You showed us the best of times, bewitching us with your fabulous sense of life. You gave us grace & style, courage & dignity, wit & wisdom. You restored the shine to that city on the hill. As you remarked yourself on leaving office, "Not bad. Not bad at all." (Read more...)
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Of Fundamentals & Fidelity, Revisited
by Lindsay Perigo
SOLO does not seek to "rewrite Objectivism." It does seek to change the culture of Objectivism that the ARI has imposed for too long now. Nietzsche said that one must forgive a philosopher his [her] first generation of disciples. It's hard to forgive the ARI for its bullying, its intimidation, its malevolence, its dishonesty, its blackballing of Titans like Sciabarra & Machan & Kelley & Walsh & Reisman, its cultivation of subservience & mediocrity ... (Read more...)
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Magnificent Machan
by Lindsay Perigo
"The Passion for Liberty" is at once a commendable starting point for novice freedom-fighters and a battery-recharger for veterans. Machan lays out the theoretical groundwork — an unabashedly Aristotelian/Randian one — for a free society in language that is accessible and with logic that is irresistible. (Read more...)
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God's Goofballs
by Lindsay Perigo
Something I just saw on Larry King enabled me to retrieve some humour from a very black situation - a cluster of clerics from different religions assembled to answer the question, "Where was God on September 11?" The question itself, let alone the answers, sent me off into peals of laughter, & I could only regret that the estimable ecclesiastics had not chosen to appear in their fancy dress to complete the comedic appeal of this risible spectacle. (Read more...)
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Preamble to a Constitution for New Freeland (with apologies & due deference to Thomas Jefferson & the Founding Fathers)
by Lindsay Perigo
The history of government in the Dominion of New Zealand is that of a long chain of abuses and usurpations of the individual rights of the citizenry, culminating in an unprecedented level of such abuses by present government, national and local, which have reduced the status of our people to one of slavery. Ownership of each citizen's life has been wrested from the citizen where it belongs and vested in government where it does not. (Read more...)
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By Myself
by Lindsay Perigo
It was not until a couple of weeks ago that I finally got around to writing a description of myself for my "Author Info" page here on SOLOHQ. I had a lot of fun doing it, but it occurred to me just now, when I went in to make changes because of recent editorial events, that these "Descriptions" by folk - when they have... (Read more...)
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 Changing of the (Editorial) Guard
by Lindsay Perigo
SOLOists – as from today I shall be assuming the mantle of SOLOHQ editor in order to allow the redoubtable Jeff Landauer to pay attention to his new day job. I’m sure we’re all mighty grateful for his Herculean efforts to date. I say “to date” because, of course, he won’t be far away, & he’s not off the hook altogether... (Read more...)
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Of Excellence And Excrement
by Lindsay Perigo
(Excerpted from Perigo’s presentation to the inaugural conference of SOLO, Waitomo, New Zealand, February 2002)
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A is A; Anarchism is the Arbitrary
by Lindsay Perigo
Anyone who seeks coercive power over others (for reasons which include living off those others' earnings) is truly comparable to excrement. Probably the greater number of politicians the world over are in this category. (Read more...)
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Free Speech's Fits & Starts
by Lindsay Perigo
Walking home from the gym the day of the first anniversary of the beginning of the liberation of Iraq, I encountered several hundred smelly Saddamites marching towards Parliament to demand the reinstatement of their toppled idol (I exaggerate the letter, but not the spirit of their protest). The vicious irony of their using their freedom of expression to demand that Iraqis be deprived of it, so soon after acquiring it, was clearly lost on these caterwauling grotesqueries. I alternated between seething disgust at the vermin & curiosity as to whether any of them might be given cause for pause by a moment’s reflection on free speech’s long, tortuous history. (Read more...)
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