Comments on: Show #92: Wikipedia Man Jimmy Wales http://www.rusiriusradio.com/2007/01/22/show-92-wikipedia-man-jimmy-wales/ The mastermind behind the legendary hipster technoculture magazine Mondo 2000 brings you a podcast meant to challenge, excite, sicken and induce hallucinations. Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:14:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Planet B http://www.rusiriusradio.com/2007/01/22/show-92-wikipedia-man-jimmy-wales/comment-page-1/#comment-957 Planet B Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:14:40 +0000 http://www.rusiriusradio.com/?p=177#comment-957 So, I was inspired to go read Wikipedia's entry on objectivism after listening to this podcast. And, after reading it, it seems it's even worse than I remember from previous forays. Or maybe it's just Rand's shrill denunciations of anything that might seem similar, like anarchism or libertarianism. It seems an interesting philosophy for a group of people maybe starting a new world somewhere. Without pre-existing conditions of oppression it might actually work, but looking around me I don't see too many people that aren't coerced in one way or another into their social and economic relationships. I don't see the freedom they talk about in our society. So, I was inspired to go read Wikipedia’s entry on objectivism after listening to this podcast. And, after reading it, it seems it’s even worse than I remember from previous forays. Or maybe it’s just Rand’s shrill denunciations of anything that might seem similar, like anarchism or libertarianism.

It seems an interesting philosophy for a group of people maybe starting a new world somewhere. Without pre-existing conditions of oppression it might actually work, but looking around me I don’t see too many people that aren’t coerced in one way or another into their social and economic relationships. I don’t see the freedom they talk about in our society.

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