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I don't care what you think about Rand. I care what Glenn thought
about her.
And if you called Glenn socialist to his face when he was alive, I believe
he would've
smacked you for being so blind. Glenn was an objectivist in many many
ways...
which I will explain in my message.
But what I have to ask you is:
How can teaching productivity, the importance of thinking, the crucial fact
that A is A,
A is not B, - that love is only something that can be earned not given as
charity - the preaching
that reason, purpose and self esteem are qualities one needs
to have to be truely happy -
.....how can these be useless and terrible?
How can teaching that the ones who are usless in
life are the ones who never move, who don't think, who try and drag down
intelligence because
of their jealousy-and lie just to impress each other because they only care
what others think,
not what they think of themselves....How can this be the writings of
someone who drags on
about nothing important?
Because if you don't believe in any of that, then your just as bad as the
ones she writes against
in her novels.
Is this a useless and terrible phrase? (one you obviously didnt grasp while
reading her works)
Mans mind is the basic tool of survival. Life is given to him,
survival is not. His mind is given to him, his content is not. To remain alive,
he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and the purpose of
his action. He cannot obtain his food without knowledge of food and a way to
obtain it. He cannot dig a ditch-or build a cyclotron-without a knowledge of his
aim, and of the means to achieve it. To remain alive, he must
think.
Dont you think it is evil to wish without moving or to move without
aim? What malevolence is it that creeps through the world struggling to break
the two and set them against each other.
Saying that an objectivist is useless is also saying that it's
alright to move without a purpose.
I know that Glenn moved with aim, and that he understood that one needed to
be productive in life.
He understood the importance of thinking. His fascintation was with the
mind! Ayn Rand preaches
about the importance of a mind. Glenn also didn't expect to get anything
for free, everything he
got, he earned truthfully.
Rand teaches that nothing should be obtained dishonorably.
Yes, Glenn was an objectivist in many ways.
Being an objectivist means to not take anything as it is. One should always
question everything,
distinguishing the right and wrong of people, situations, or any ways of
life. If one is not an objectivist
this means they accept everything as it is, and they see no reason to
change it, or acknowledge it.
Being an objectivist means to make a mark in the world, to move into the
future for the better,
and to move around and past the ones who threaten human
progression and reason - who threaten intelligence.
Glenn made a mark in the world, there was no way he was going to let his
life remain unknown.
His contribution to progression in the music business and life was
absolutely massive. He has the qualities
of an objectivist because he never accepted life as it was, he sought to
make it better. And that
he did not only affecting himself for the the better, but
millions of others in the process.
These are the qualities of an objectivist that you find so useless.
But if you don't understand a word that Rand said in her novels, I don't
see how you can
understand my message either, or her relation to Glenn and his theories.
And in no way do I think this message is off topic to the list because it
relates to Glenn in all
the ways I have mentioned above, in the honor of productivity, life,
progression, and purpose.
Zeldah ----- Original Message -----
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