| | Hello all. What interesting comments. And I say this because you all assummed my second reading of the Fountainhead was less enjoyable than the first. Which is back to front. The second was far more enjoyable, which I'll hopefully comment on further into this post. All I was pointing out in my last one was the fact that a difference in perception can occur from one reader to the next, using my past and present self as examples. What I want to say now applies to just how serious a fault can occur when seeing another person or persons through the perception of strict Objectivist eyes (and I include SOLO as being strict). As far as I can tell, most objectivists concider themselves and their road ahead as being paved by reason. This is all good and well, except maybe it's not. Perception could be playing more of a part in your decision making than you think. When one embraces the entirety of any philosophy - Objectivism of course included - it tends to create an entire emotional head-space in one that's the equivalent of that philosophy. And the problem I have with most objectivists is that they don't - or certainly don't seem to - realize this. Simply put, there are loads of other perceptions out there, hanging around you like nearly-earings. True, you don't have time to try and bring them closer to your mind (it takes years to fully build your mind backwards and sideways into another person's internal space, another person's perceptions). But, you could at least reflect this fact in your judgements of others, rather than claiming to know so much that you can insult them left right and center. Objectivists claim to know far more about others and existence than they should. I won't go into specific examples I've seen on this forum, but boy, there are some serious problems here. Part of why I won't go in to it is because the parties involved will never understajnd.
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