Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!sugar!ficc!jeffd From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: talk.philosophy.objectivism Summary: 100% wrong Message-ID: Date: 16 Jan 90 20:42:05 GMT References: <1990Jan13.140242.14111@twwells.com> <9702@hoptoad.uucp> Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation Lines: 24 In article <9702@hoptoad.uucp>, tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes: > If anything, this should be soc.politics.objectivism. > > Rand's work has never been philosophy, despite the claims of a few > people who don't read philosophy. It has always been political in > nature. Tim, I hate to sound harsh, but this is 100% wrong. It's like saying that baseball has no physical component because, as Yogi B. put it, "90% of baseball is half mental". Yes, Objectivism has a political component ... but it has much, much, more. And even the political component it has would not have to be as prominent as it is were the world not so horrifically overgoverned. I would ask that you read some of Rand's non-political works and then rethink your assessment. Jeff Daiell -- A Fusser named McGee; a most amusing sight! He fusses every day, then fusses every night. TUNE: What can he mean, this Fusser named McGee, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF Who fusses first at you, then fusses next at me?