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From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Organized Objectivism
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Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 13:37:59 EST
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> 
> I find the phenomenon of organized Objectivism rather amusing...
> imagine people forming clubs and gathering to think independently
> together...
> -- 
> David Canzi

This comment demonstrates the absurd individualism of Objectivism.
There is not a philosophy ever invented which did not involve
a circle of individuals in interactive *discussion* and *debate*.
If not through immediate personal conversation then through
the medium of books, articles or letters.

Indeed thought itself is primarily conducted through language or
symbolic manipulations which are culturally and socially produced
and transmitted.
 
Try to extract the philosophy from a person who has been raised
with virtually no human contact.  You won't get very far.

This is why philosophies inevitably reflect the social and
cultural milieu of their time and it also explains the
well-documented fact in the history of science that
some 33% or more of scientific discoveries are dual discoveries.
I.e. two scientists made the same discovery independently
without knowing of the other's discovery.
Why? Because the time and conditions in science as an organized
social entity were ready for it.

Let us promote discussion and dialogue- not solipsism!
 
           tim sevener  whuxn!orb