Rand and the Mystics
Posted by j_IR1776wg 9 years, 9 months ago to Philosophy
"As products of the split between man’s soul and body, there are two kinds of teachers of the Morality of Death: the mystics of spirit and the mystics of muscle, whom you call the spiritualists and the materialists, those who believe in consciousness without existence and those who believe in existence without consciousness. Both demand the surrender of your mind, one to their revelations, the other to their reflexes. No matter how loudly they posture in the roles of irreconcilable antagonists, their moral codes are alike, and so are their aims: in matter—the enslavement of man’s body, in spirit—the destruction of his mind." from the Ayn Rand Lexicon
Where would you place President Obama in the above thought? Mystic of spirit? or Mystic of muscle?
Where would you place President Obama in the above thought? Mystic of spirit? or Mystic of muscle?
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No thanks.
He is the classic combination of Shaman and Hun. However, he reserves his use of force for his own people. The thought of foreign war scares the crap out of him. He reminds me of the big brother who will only beat up his younger brother. Other kids make him wet his pants.
Obama, like most liberal-progressives, has a very primitive understanding of economics in that they believe money has mystical properties that can be controlled by edict (incantations) rather than market forces. So in that sense he is a mystic of the ephemeral.
he does not chose who to reward they are on their own and what they can steal is okay with him.
mystics are confused to start with.
Actually he has state nothing, only rambled on and on. There is a book I love, that is well used for writing college papers.
Title: "How to say NOTING in 500 words."
THAT is what Jeb and the vast majority of politicians do. They say NOTHING in 500 words assuming will either get bored, or distracted and move on.
I would say:
Ideology without any reason and logic.
I think you need Consciousness to define existence.
Otherwise humans are nothing more than instinctive animals with no reason, only action/reaction.
Not to put too fine a point on it.
Question to anyone? how did an orphan refugee from eastern Europe make his way across the curtain to immediately attend top drawer university in England add London School of Economics and skate his way on thin ice to present position? Who is he really working for? Or since the 'Soviet Union Collapsed is he just acting as a free agent for the Socialists You get two choices China or the new US Government Party.