Tag Archives: Ayn Rand

Lessons from The Aristotle Adventure Applied to Objectivism

Posted on November 17, 2019 by Jim

This post is a reply to Mr Cropper’s YouTube video “Objectivist Pnyx Is Hereby Assembled” in which he in part called me out to substantiate one of my earlier comments. On his vid “Mr. Cropper, Objectivist Driver” I had reasserted he needed … Continue reading →

Posted in Political Discussions | Tagged Aristotle, Ayn Rand, Ayn Rand Institute, books, Mr Cropper, Yaron Brook | 3 Comments

The Objectivist Conference (OCON) and Ideas for Living Life on Earth

Posted on June 11, 2017 by Jim

In Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged, the world’s hidden producers gathered for one month each summer and in part they traded the intellectual products that they had produced during the prior year. Similarly, Objectivists (those who study and apply Ayn … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, History, Political Discussions | Tagged Amesh Adalja, Andrew Berstein, Andrew Lewis, Atheism, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Capitalism, Elan Journo, Eric Daniels, Gregory Salmieri, health care, Jihad, laissez-faire capitalism, objective law, Objectivism, OCON, patents, Peter Schwartz, Rituparna Basu, Robert Mayhew, Tara Smith, vaccination | 1 Comment

Question 10: What is the DIM Hypothesis?

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Jim

I have been participating in a book group this year; we are reading Leonard Peikoff’s new book The DIM Hypothesis: Why the Lights of the West are Going Out. After having engaged is some rigorous chewing of the book with … Continue reading →

Posted in Questions | Tagged Ayn Rand, culture, DIM Hypothesis, disintegration, integration, Leonard Peikoff, misintegration, modal analysis, Objectivism, philosophy, society, western culture | 3 Comments

Question 9: Why be a selfish citizen?

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Jim

Much of the search traffic to this site involves a combination of terms that include selfish. Today, someone was looking for the “Top 10 Selfish Politicians”; limited to current politicians, I am at a loss to come up with 10. … Continue reading →

Posted in Political Discussions | Tagged Ayn Rand, Barack Obama, Freedom Party, freedom party of ontario, orgy of sacrifice, Paul McKeever, sacrifice, selfish, selfishness, The Virtue of Selfishness | 1 Comment

Obama Plans More Rapes (a satire)

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Jim

In shocking news not being reported from Washington, President Obama advocates a plan to increase the number of American women being raped. Citing all the correlated public “benefits” to more rapes, our President called on narrow minded advocates for individual … Continue reading →

Posted in Congress, Political Discussions, President | Tagged Ayn Rand, Barack Obama, federal gun control, gun control legislation, satire | 3 Comments

Question #6: Why is altruism bad?

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Jim

Related to the post Thank LBJ and Altruism for Our Federal Deficit and Debt, the following question came via Reddit from a father raising his child to be an altruist: “Why is altruism bad?” Sacrifice, and in particular self-sacrifice. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Questions | Tagged altruism, Ayn Rand, How I Met Your Mother, orgy of sacrifice, satire, selfishness, slap bet | 4 Comments

Top 10 Books for Selfish Citizens, 4th Quarter 2012

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Jim

The following are the top 10 books for October – December 2012 as identified by the readers of Selfish Citizenship. Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist by Tara Smith The Head of Athena (The Cyrus Skeen Series) by Edward … Continue reading →

Posted in History, President | Tagged Albert Gallatin, Aristotle, Ayn Rand, Cox and Forkum, Hernando de Soto, James Monroe, John Adams, Missouri v. Jenkins, Tara Smith | 1 Comment

Top 10 Books for Selfish Citizens, 3rd Quarter 2012

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Jim

The following are the top 10 books for July – September 2012 as identified by the readers of Selfish Citizenship. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by … Continue reading →

Posted in Early Greek Lawgivers, History, President | Tagged Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, George Washington, Hernando de Soto, James Madison, James Monroe, John Adams, John Lewis, Leonard Peikoff | Leave a comment

Not an Emergency, but a Suicide Attempt

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Jim

Are our current economic problems an emergency? Politicians in both parties have said so and claimed that we have to abandon principles, act for the sake of action, and when those actions fail we must blindly act again. In The … Continue reading →

Posted in Congress, Political Discussions, Quotes | Tagged Aristotle, Ayn Rand, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, orgy of sacrifice, Socrates | 4 Comments

Our Racist Public Schools

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Jim

While Democrats are quick on the trigger with fallacious rhetorical partisan charges of racism against critics of President Obama, their silence is deafening when it comes to actually racist government policies. Previously, I mentioned the Obama Administration filing a petition … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, President, Quotes | Tagged Ayn Rand, Barack Obama, Bob McDonnell, corruption, equal protection of the law, Fisher v. University of Texas, George W. Bush, public schools, racism, The Cartel | 1 Comment