| | I woke up to an interesting program (WYCC - a liberal cable university channel) on psychology. Environment influence on brain plasticity (peptides & hormones), and consequent dominant social behavior was discussed in fish, baboons and people. (Certainly pertinent to Artemis' p81 in the materialism thread I'll not spend time on).
The human race obviously has more growing, neural adaptation to do.
Objectivism is a philosophy, religion, for an altruistic, corrupt culture. Rand's novels - WTL, Anthem, Fountainhead, AS, all deal with individuals looted, sacrificed, in altruistic scams by the ethics of altruism. Rand writes at length about how the *reality* of the human condition does indeed suck, and proposes an antidote - that men act as rational traders, rather than predators and prey. Or they, as she did, vote with their feet.
It is terribly naive to think that money and power will be relinquished to the more competent on mere ideals. Or that emotional accounts of past injustice can just be written off. Rand really doesn't address solutions well, other than getting lucky (Roark), unlucky (Kira, et.) or fleeing to a survivalist community.
And from what I've seen of several "Objectivist" groups, none of us would peaceably coexist anyways.
Scott
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