We are not born tabula rasa.
I don’t make this shit up, loves. This appears in the chapter “Check Your Tools” in The Moral Bias of Objectivism. Objectivism Needs to be “Better than Communism” When I challenge Objectivism, people sniff, “And what about all the GOOD that it does? Why can’t you focus on that?” They typically point to Rand’s devastating …
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For the longest time, I hesitated to use shame against shamers. It’s *entrenched* in society that this is morally wrong. The conversation goes like this, over and over, “Women are lazy parasites!” “You’re an abusive misogynist!” “Oh are you JUDGING me? Hypocrite!” I argue elsewhere that this system inherently allows abusers to stay in power. …
The Moral Bias of Objectivism: The Tool (“Reason”) is Also the Conclusion Rand evaluates the world using “reason,” but it’s not “reason” at all. The very tool she uses to evaluate the world also ends up being her conclusions. Here is the tool Rand says to use to evaluate the world and in which she …
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Check Your Premises In the following sections, I am going to be dissecting and challenging Objectivism. Before I really get into it, however, I find I need to ask the reader to check some of their basic assumptions. If bias abounds, I find I get nowhere. Rand famously admonishes her readers to “check your premises.” …
This is the first chapter, offered for free, of The Moral Bias of Objectivism Chapter 1: The Challenge: Rand’s Faulty View of Human Nature Ayn Rand has a faulty view of human nature itself, and then builds an elaborate morality and philosophy around it. Ayn Rand’s Objectivism is proudly hierarchal in nature. Rand’s politics are …
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If you dismiss this post outright, without reading it, intuitively, because I said logic is intuition, you lose. I’ve long wondered what “logic” meant. It made no sense to me. What is being said? I thought math was an example of logic. I’m really good–like really good–at math by the way. I won a state …
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When I gave my challenge to Objectivism, I originally asked for beta readers for my book Towards Liberalism. This was, on the whole with but a few notable exceptions, an otherwise utterly *awful* experience. Although asking for beta readers is a normal step in a book publishing process, the majority of people responding to me …
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After (seemingly) reading through this website, in which I challenge Ayn Rand’s view of tabula rasa, someone said this to me: Rand doesn’t argue that people are born emotionless …. I know that. I never said Rand said we are emotionless. Here is what she said, Man has no choice to feel that something is …
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It’s funny to me that people who know me and know I am very well versed in the area of abuse, try to abuse me. In fact, the more versed I am on abuse, the more abusive they get. It’s almost as if I am a natural threat to them. But, you see. You can’t …
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I challenge Ayn Rand’s Objectivism, specifically her view on emotions. Consistently, Objectivists tell me I am “rambling.” I lay out what could not be a more crystal clear argument and I get the treatment, “What is she talking about?” I say things that I know would have penetrated me deeply when I was younger–such as …
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