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From: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Organized Objectivism
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Date: Sun, 9-Mar-86 20:59:52 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  9 20:59:52 1986
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This I got from the inside front cover of a paperback edition of
Ayn Rand's book, _Philosophy: Who Needs It?_:

    As a human being, you have no choice about the fact that you need a
    philosophy.  Your only choice is whether you define your philosophy by
    a conscious, rational, disciplined process of thought... or let your
    subconscious accumulate a junk heap of unwarranted conclusions...

Elsewhere in her works (though I don't remember where), on some 
subject, she advised her readers not to take her word for it, but
rather to figure it out for themselves.  Clearly, she valued
independent thinking.

I find the phenomenon of organized Objectivism rather amusing...
imagine people forming clubs and gathering to think independently
together...
-- 
David Canzi