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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: Organized Objectivism
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Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 12:34:47 EST
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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

The conformist nature of many of the people involved with Objectivism
is the reason that Objectivists are frequently known in libertarian/
anarchist circles as "Randroids".