[69] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: LIVING WAGE SIT-IN AT HARVARD (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prez H. Cannady)
Fri Apr 20 00:52:37 2001
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From: "Prez H. Cannady" <revprez@MIT.EDU>
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At 12:03 AM 4/20/01 , Sourav K. Mandal wrote
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>So, you abide by it, since you claim "fascism is grounded in reality?"
No, I don't abide by it. I've yet to claim reality is
anything more than a wide agreement on what is. The
Objectivist model rejects this less than authorative
notion of reality and attempts to force their parameters
in a fashion not dissimilar to that the Montana Freemen
used to maintain their "interpretation" of common law.
It's unnecessary and ridiculous.
>Anyway, this metaphysics is not tautologous, but axiomatic, in the
>development of Objectivism.
You flaunt it as an axiom, but then go around defining the
parameters as you please. As such, you say "reality according
to these parameters exists because it exists according to
these parameters." Since you reject irrational foundation
of axiomatic truth (wide agreement), I am forced to read
your basic assumption as unnecessarily stated tautologies.
Without even the decency to call on a higher power to
justify your extended set of assumptions, you jump from a
pretty decent foundation in hard science and end up pulling
Noam Chomsky sized vaults across reasoning on the soft stuff.
>However, if you don't buy this axiom, at
>least be self-consistent and disavow science, engineering and your
>personal conclusions about human nature.
I don't buy your reading of it. You merely adopt
the rigorous, analytical methods of hard science
and then fudge on real social matters. Peep game, dunn:
Ayn Rand bullshits.
>I'm sorry you think that way. Does it bother you being a whore, taking
>blindly, without a second thought to your pride? If you had any, you'd
>realize that the moral _is_ the practical.
What's wrong with hookers?
If you think that me getting mine is impractical, I'm
not sure we can agree on much of anything.
Rev Prez
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