The lies, distortions, attacks and smears that I have encountered while perusing this forum as well as others are too preposterous to even consider commenting on but I would like to say the following: If you agree or disagree with Rand's philosophy then say why. Ad hominem attacks and the like do not for any argument make. They are no more valid than static emitted from a radio speaker. If you do not like Objectivism then leave it alone, it is not for you. Why waste time on something that you do not like and disagree with? Instead, find another philosophy that you agree with and spend your time on that. Objectivism is enemy-proof. The only way you can attack it is by distorting it. So far, I have not encountered one valid attack. The onus of proof lays with the person who makes it. Since many people do not present arguments as to why they disagree with Objectivism, but instead resort to denunciations and character assassinations, one can infer that the truth is on the side of Objectivism. It is sad and tragic that the greatest defender of reason, egoism, and capitalism is attacked so viciously by academics and nonacademics alike, for no other reason than presenting them with a life-giving philosophy which is in total opposition to the nihilistic, depravity-worship ethos of the culture which they have brought to bankruptcy and are responsible for creating--each of them individually. So keep smearing and lying, if that's your cup of tea--you will be forgotten long before Ayn Rand. To quote from the introduction of her novel The Fountainhead,: "But whatever their future, At the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential...It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature--and that the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning--and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or 'The Fountainhead' that they will betray: it is their own souls." Is this what you regard as repugnant and evil? If so, then make the most of it.
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