Posted by Sorenmad's ass on December 27, 1999 at 21:42:48:
In Reply to: Re: Nietzsche and Ayn Rand connection posted by Sorenmad on December 25, 1999 at 22:33:27:
: Andrea: I have but one thing to say about Ayn Rand. : Nobody has really read Atlas Shrugged. Nobody.
Sm's ass:
Amazon sales rankings:
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason - 29,507
Kierkegaard, Fear & Trembling - 14,731
K, Concluding Unscientific Postscript - 107,056
Nietzsche, Anti-Christ - 11,845
Heidegger, Being & Time - 18,858
Wittgenstein, Phiosophical Investigations - 8891
Wittgenstein, T.L.P. - 37603
And that poor ignored saviour of 'reason' Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged - 309
Now I know statistics can lie, but I personally know about 10 people who have read Fear & Trembling, and I think it follows that at least 10 people have read Atlas Shrugged. Or perhaps nobody understands the part where she tackles Kant's unreadable masterpiece? I dont know if she does that in atlas shrugged, but she must deal with Kant's book somewhere. And if anyone accepts ayns 'philosphy' without reading and understanding (to the best of their ability) Kant, are they not making a leap of faith? And imagine an objectivist hockey game! What a sight!! Yes, this is the outcome of Reason in history, passion has been declared something to be exterminated, if not outright, certainly inderectly. I think Hegel's abortion, Ayn Rand will be exterminated with passion. At least her status as a philopsher will be exterminated, and soon. Most of the people capable of showing what twaddle objectivism is think they are above reducing themselves to dealing with delusional crackpots trying to start 'movements' But this is different, this crackpot fooled a lot of people. We must show pity by showing no pity. Subjectivity does exist, and is knocking on the door of philosophy once again. And if anyone is going to keep it out of philosophy it is not Ayn Rand. WE MUST FACE THE NOTHING WE ARE!!!???
Nothing faces Zarathustra faces nothing and overcomes you. You Now contain a was which contains a who who is not the same Who as the Who who-you-are Now. -How?. This phenomenon reqires a leap which starts the hordes o' borgs fuming and fooling with Schooling into a borganism that is shouting- "IRRATIONALIST-SUBJECTIVIST-EXISTENTIALIST-SELF-WORSHIPING WANNABEE-GURU FAKE TIE-DIE FREAK !!!" This is because when you turn your back on the borganism it can't have a borgaszm as it convinces you you don't even exist. so don't let the borganism fu*k you out of your life. You f*ck that borganism back and have a real orgazim, and you f**k it facing Zarathustra.
Hope this helped, and don't forget about Kant. -Sm's ass
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