*Snicker* *Snort*

[eumelia]

Is it funny, or sad that there's an Ayn Rand Club for Philosophy Students at my Uni and they're spamming the entire Humanities student body's email.
The first meeting is next Wedesnday.

Do I go and mock?
Or do I avoid the proto-fascist crazies?

Help me out dear friends.

I'm just... who would have thought? Randians on campus, and they could be anyone. Cooo! Maybe I should go and scope in order to know who to avoid for the rest of my academic career.
When I was a teenager I was a Randian, read all her books, felt that I was Smarter and More Capable than Thou... loved "The Selfish Ideal".
Then I finished adolescence.
Like may things Randinism is a phase.
How can people, students of high theory, philosophy and such actually consider this woman to be anything other than a stylish author!?
Digressing over.

So? Should I stay or should I go? *duh-na-na-na-naa*

Comments

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Me too!
I loves it so.
Well, some are stuck on Hegel who is better (in so many ways), but really people! Modernity meet Post-Structuralism, I think you'll make excellent friends.
Post-Structuralism licks their lips at Modernity... I'm looking to undermine you.
Modernity gulps.

[shelestel.livejournal.com]

Stop, I'm horny enough today the way it is ;).

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Modernity: In everything there is an anchor of Truth.
Post-Modernism: How about we unravel that Truth.
Modernity: What?! You can't unravel the Truth, it exists as it is.
Post-Modernism: Oh yeah! There's marginal Truth, minor Truth, a simulation of the Truth, a cracked Truth... so many... and all from you? How does that make you think? All those truths... crashing, ebbing, cascading, destroyed... rebuilt... together.
Modernity: Oh my...
Post-Modernism: God is dead, you said so.
Modernity: But, but... You're, you're killing me!
Post-Modernism: And isn't that so fucking sexy.

[shelestel.livejournal.com]

[modernity dies, they carry her out; pause]
Postmodernity: Who am I?.. I am so lonely. [an emotional scale from confusion to mild rage] Stupid! Truths! [exists]

[shelestel.livejournal.com]

exits

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Both versions work in a cracked form of cohesion, me thinks.

[shelestel.livejournal.com]

"cracked cohesion" is almost as good as "accreted monoculture" (gillen):)

[antongarou.livejournal.com]

Now you start getting into problems:Post modernism is somewhat useful when you try to shed light on the fallibility of the ways we perceive reality.The problem starts when you decide there is no such thing as objective reality anywhere- if that was true then I could fly if I thought about it hard enough, which is patently untrue.

In addition, the fact it puts the same value on all moral systems is somewhat problematic, from my POV- why should I *not* judge a value system that calls for the destruction of all people who practice other moral systems, or for continuing bodily harm to children?

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I don't have the time, nor the inclination at the moment to talk politics (which is exactly where this is going).

You can judge all you like, but you can't ignore the fact that the values you place are your own and not something universal. One person's value system is another person's oppression.
Where's the "objectivity" is that?

Edited to add: Objectivity is not fact. Fact = humans cannot physically fly. Objectivity = being pure of bias. Huge, massive difference.