Tag: Ayn Rand

• The nature of reality isn’t what you think it is, continued

  Last November I wrote this post, which suggested (to me anyhow) that what we perceive as reality was anything but this. Since that post, I have been delving more into the subject, which is getting clearer and weirder every day. What’s weirdest about all this learning and research is that the exact sorts of people…

  Mark

  February 8, 2019

  Metaphysics, Sociology

  Astral planes, Ayn Rand, Brian Greene, Consciousness, Objectivism, Quantum Physics, Reality, Schrödinger’s cat, Virtual reality

• Capitalism’s minuses

  This just in: former TV conservative crybaby Glenn Beck is going Galt, John Galt, that is. Galt is the central character in Ayn Rand’s seminal novel “Atlas Shrugged”. Through Galt, Rand fully articulated her philosophy of Objectivism, which emphasizes the virtue of complete, unfettered Laissez-faire capitalism. It is capitalism freed from the burdens of tariffs,…

  Mark

  January 15, 2013

  Philosophy, Sociology

  Ayn Rand, Capitalism, Glenn Beck, Independence USA, Morality, Objectivism

• Death by Objectivism

  Is Objectivism dead? Objectivism, in case you are unfamiliar with it, is a philosophy created and articulated by the writer and philosopher Ayn Rand, who died in New York City in 1982 at the age of 77. I became acquainted with the philosophy in my early adult years when I read her novel, The Fountainhead.…

  Mark

  March 8, 2009

  Politics 2009, Sociology

  Ayn Rand, Economy, Money, Objectivism