[extropy-chat] Rand

[Al Brooks]

The Randians may be 'playing dumb'. Over & over again I've had communications - or lack thereof- with coy respondents. What Randians appear to be saying is, to paraphrase a conservative dictum, 'that which is not unambigiously conservative tends to erode towards something else'. In the case of Randians, they might be saying, 'that which is not pro- free market and work ethic tends to erode towards command economics and evasion of responsibilities', and this is clear & understandable; however when Randians act like martinets, even if they are merely putting on an act,  they can only hope to snare those who are susceptible to rope-a-dope rhetoric. 
 
 
John K Clark <jonkc at att.net> wrote:[...] they just quoted Ayn Rand back at me as if what she said was more important than Bell's experiment or Godel. I said a lot of stuff they didn't like very much but then I said something that made the howls of
protest reach a crescendo and they looked for the tar and feathers. The
dreadful blasphemy I dared to utter is this:

"We've suspected for 80 years and known with certainty for nearly 40 that
some events have no cause and are random.
I mean, I liked Atlas Shrugged as much as anyone but if Ayn Rand tells me
one thing and experiment tells me another it's no contest; I'm a rational
man so I have to go with experiment."

I don't believe I will go back there.

John K Clark jonkc at att.net



			
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