Closed Objectivism

 

I have a great affinity for the philosophy of Ayn Rand, though her atheism, her pure adherence to the law of noncontradiction and her complete faith in the correspondence theory of truth, strike me as the ideological fanaticism of a guru and true believer whose followers at times were like belonging to a religious cult.

 

She is a great and brilliant thinker. Academic philosophers have treated her shabbily, and the lack of professional philosophical respect for her achievements is scandalous.

 

I do not favor Closed Objectivism (I oppose a closed system for any thinker, but I will comment later on some videos about Craig Biddle, Stephen Hicks and ARI thinkers on this subject of Objectivism being closed or open.).

 

David Kelley of the Atlas Society favors Open Objectivism as do I in the name of moderation.

 

People are groupist, extremist, unreasonable and emotional more than individual, impartial, fair-minded, and rational, so whether they generate a cult or are members of a cult, people by nature prefer all-or-none thinking, totalistic logic and purity of ideational conformity to the causes’s principles.

 

People are also sickened by centralized power, and we are naturally addicted to it. This is why, over and over in human history, people seek to crush all opposition and force all to be fellow true believers spouting the party line, and engaging in uniformity and groupthink.

 

It is ironical that rationalists like Aristotle, with his law of contradiction, seem fanatical, all-or-none thinkers, and to some degree that is true.

 

Actually, it is the individualism and rationalism and freedom of the will of thinkers that makes them moderate and more nuanced in their thinking.

 

It is the feelers, the joiners, the groupists that are seek purity of thought and conformity in thought word and deed.

 

Eastern faiths like Buddhism seem moderate but their radical anti-essentialism makes them immoderate and anti-freedom, though that is not their metaphysics.

 

That the world is so hard to explain and set up how it actually works—this is why people are deluded and confused. I believed that my quirky Mavellonialist worldview is one of the most accurate ways of depicting how the world works and how people should live—up to now.