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As the clock ticked down to government shutdown, Senator Ted Cruz took to the Senate floor, reading excerpts from one of his favorite books--by his own admission--Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, to justify shutting down the government.
In this special government shutdown edition, the dangers of the Ayn Rand philosophy are examined, the obsession with a 'freedom' that can only exist at the expense of greater society, of a greed that would shut down the government of all to benefit the one.
If the book were JUST a refutation of Ayn Rand, it would only be interesting to those who hate Rand, and those who LOVE Rand, to see what the opposition to her philosophy was up to. It has to be more, and it is: to define the nature of liberty, we must also define the nature of society, and the inter-relation of the "freedom" of the individual and the "regulation" (anti-freedom) of society.
The author proposes to give you a definition that resolves this into the false dilemma it's always been. And why the "key" notion of Ted Cruz's and Ayn Rand's and Charlie and David Koch's notion of "liberty" is just hogwash. Easy to see in your own life, real world, organic hogwash.
An intellectual romp, with a heaping helping of humor, written in an accessable, informative manner that's sure to please the casual reader or the scholar, 'Ayn Nation Under God' is as fresh as today's headlines--since Rand's ideas fuel the Tea Party, and the Koch Brothers, among others.
- Sales Rank: #1145272 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-12-12
- Released on: 2012-12-12
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author
A published author, novelist, literary critic and screenwriter for a quarter of a quarter-century more than a quarter-century, Hart Williams has lived in the American West for his entire life. Having grown up in Wyoming, Kansas and New Mexico, a survivor of Texas and a veteran of Hollywood --where he worked in radio, television and films in addition to print--Mr. Williams has lived in Oregon for the past twenty years.
He has written for (among others) the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Kansas City Star, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner (RIP), the Portland Oregonian, the Santa Fe Sun, New West magazine (RIP), the Eugene Register-Guard, the Orange County Register and the Los Angeles Free Press (RIP).
His blog (his vorpal sword) is frequently featured on Crooks and Liars' Mike's Blog Roundup, Salon's Blog Roundups (before the feature was discontinued), and has been cited in fora too numerous to mention. His posts are frequently seen on Memeorandum and sometimes The Atlantic Wire. He is a regular guest voice on The Moderate Voice and the Democratic Daily.
In 2007, it took two Fox News shows for Sean Hannity, Brent Bozell and Ted Nugent to fully explain what an awful, horrible, terrible person he is.
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Veteran Journalist Treats Ayn Rand's Work With The Respect It Deserves
By Bruce I. Kodish
The full title of Hart William's book of connected essays, Ayn Nation Under God: A Rational Examination As To Why Ayn Rand Is Full Of It, indicates his intent and point of view quite well. The essays (most of which appeared in slightly different form on Williams' blog from 2005 to 2012) do not pretend to any faux 'objectivity'. But despite his generally negative opinion of Ayn Rand's work, her fans and followers will make a mistake if they dismiss Williams' ebook, available in Amazon Kindle format, as not worthy of their reading time and effort. For them, and for the non-fans of Rand--in and out of academia--many of whom have dismissed her work as unimportant, Williams provides a most valuable service by treating Rand with the respect she deserves as one of the most influential figures of mid-20th Century to early 21st Century American thought. Indeed, Williams adduces a great deal of evidence to show that Rand--founder of a philosophical school she called "Objectivism"--has become a revered figure and a major inspiration for the Republican Right (especially its more secular wing representing finance and banking) and the allied Libertarian movement, both of which cherish and feel bolstered by Rand's uber-individualist, anti-government, but pro-corporate outlook. Williams has carefully studied Rand's work and his "rational examination" focuses on her basic premises: her view of 'reason', which he finds inadequate, and her basic understanding of human nature, which he finds lacking, indeed monstrously so. His criticism seems to me--a student and advocate of Alfred Korzybski's non-aristotelian viewpoint--devastatingly apt.
Although Williams has not studied Alfred Korzybski's work, he has clearly been influenced by some of the ongoing non-aristotelian currents that Korzybski saw developing in the scientific, intellectual culture of his time, which he sought to systematize and enhance by means of the teachable system that he called "general semantics". (See Selections from Science and Sanity.) "Non-aristotelian" I should emphasize was not for Korzybski anti-Aristotle, not even anti aristotelian logic. Aristotle's logic, for example, may still remain useful--where it applies. But Korzybski did reject the essentialist structural assumptions or metaphysics which Aristotle's logic in particular embodies when interpreted, as Ayn Rand did, as the overarching basis for human 'rationality' and 'reason' rather than as a limited set of guidelines for some forms of discourse. In his first chapter (written especially for the book), Williams--who as a college philosophy major studied mathematical logic--gives his take on Rand's trumpeting of the aristotelian 'laws of thought' and 'pure logic' as the basis for 'reason'. In Atlas Shrugged, she entitled the three sections of the book "Non-Contradiction", "Either-Or", and "A is A". Williams writes that when he first saw her "A is A" years ago, he said "When?": "A is A sometimes, but other times it's not exactly A. In fact, when you say A, you are just specifying THIS A at THAT exact moment in time, which that A will never be again. But it's close enough for government work, or, in this case, anti-government work." Williams further discussion of aristotelian logic seems quite in keeping with Korzybski's take: overdependence on it by using it as a general orientation, as Rand and her followers do, leads to evaluational rigidity and inflexibility.
Williams' critique of Rand's view of human nature also appears quite devastating. Rand cut her heroes from a cartoonish mold where, just as with the fabled politician, they built with their own two hands the log cabin they were born in. She elevates to sacred doctrine an extreme individualism that takes little to no account of the social matrix upon which any individual human accomplishment is based. Perhaps Williams doesn't know much about Korzybski's characterization of humanity as the time-binding class of life (see Manhood of Humanity: The Science and Art of Human Engineering (Dodo Press), but throughout the book he demonstrates his implicit understanding of the time-binding character of humanity and its incompatibility with Rand's extreme version of individuality, embodied in the title of one of her books The Virtue of Selfishness (Signet). Rand erroneously embraces "[a]n almost universal human trait...the ability to discount the endless contributions of others to our thinking process, while magnifying our own 'original' thinking beyond all measure. This is the basis of the American mythos of the 'Self-made man.'..." Rand's extreme elevation of the virtue of selfishness has no place for altruism--at all, at all. According to Rand, Williams notes, "[o]nly when this awful, ridiculous moral notion of self-sacrifice and altruism is rejected will the thinkers/creators/Atlases be free to create. Until then, Galt [one of Rand's heros in Atlas Shrugged] says, they're out." Williams writes that on the contrary, "Man is a SOCIAL animal," "but Ayn Rand and her adherents insanely reject this fundamental truth. As a result, while a few have enriched themselves, our society is falling apart, and our infrastructure is rotting." Thus Rand's work provides the perfect theoretical basis for the current extreme view of individualism supported by 'tea-party' advocates, 'libertarian' think tanks, and the right-wing Republicans, among others. An example of the latter is former Republican Vice-Presidential candidate, Paul Ryan, a staunch right-wing Catholic, who during the campaign attempted to distance himself from the staunch atheist, Rand, he once admired and touted. But despite his new found love for St. Thomas Aquinas, Ryan still seems to be pushing the virtue of selfishness. Not very christian according to some christian's measures, but then again, as Williams points out, "nobody ever went broke providing millionaires with a rationalization for the morality of greed." At the moment, Congressman Ryan seems to be doing quite well.
The book's title, Ayn Nation Under God, might have been better titled Ayn Nation Under Galt, but then again maybe Hart Williams' title is appropriate if we understand Albert Ellis's affirmative answer to the question that was also the title of his book critiquing Rand, Is Objectivism a Religion? At any rate, Hart Williams' book provides a remarkably non-aristotelian look at what is unfortunately becoming (at least to me) Ayn Nation Under Rand. If you want to understand a great deal more about the polarizing belief system that seems to dominate the present political climate in the U.S., you can't do better than read Hart William's book. My summary and quotes don't do justice to his writing. He tenders his conclusions with a large portion of supporting detail served with verve and wit in a book of much greater value than its incredibly low price.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Is Ayn Rand's "greed is a virtue" the way we want to live?
By Candace Williams
I'm giving this four instead of five stars for two picayune reasons: 1) everyone has spill check, so why not use it? and 2) while I realize this is a series of essays, with a little effort much of the repetition could have been avoided. Sorry, but I can't suppress my inner Grammar Nazi.
The book shows how today's GOP congresscritters and their handlers are devotees of Ayn Rand's "greed is a virtue" philosophy, and whether consciously or not, their policies are much like that of the Spartan culture: the non-producers (e.g., the old and infirm) are parasites who are best left out in the elements to perish. This philosophy is clearly shown by the unwillingness to raise taxes on the wealthy while at the same time insisting that "entitlements" such as Social Security and Medicare must be privatized, cut back, and otherwise drastically changed in order to "save" our society. A must read, imo, for those who haven't yet thought through their libertarian leanings, and others who may still think Ayn Rand was "one of the great philosophers of our time," or worse, that her thinking was so far "out there" that we need not take her seriously.
Take this seriously, especially on this inauguration day as we stand at the edge of the "fiscal cliff."
ADDED January 31, 2013: By the way, I neither know, nor am I related to the author, even though we happen to share the same last name.
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Redefining The Word "Deconstruct"
By m. emerson
Redefining The Word "Deconstruct"
This book is a fine example of an American writer's innate understanding of the English language. American English. This is a uniquely American story, with an ironic foreign twist. Ayn Rand, (an immigrant from the USSR) has recently become an increasingly popular American icon in right wing, tea party politics for a concept so anethetical to our way of life as to be almost laughable, if it wasn't so dangerously insidious.
From the book:
"We are so immersed in the myth of our separateness, our individuality, that we never see the vast machineries of a global civilization that allows us our dream of sovereign glory. I am a rock! I am an Island! (see Paul Simon for the rest of it.)
Rand's philosophy of "Objectivism" (basically an "I've got mine, the individual is everything, selfishness is a virtue" look at the world) is goofy enough (if I have to spell it out for you, man is a SOCIAL animal). The butcher and the baker would not have been able to do their jobs if it wasn't for the candlestick maker, not to mention the many apprentices needed in all of those fields.
Cooperation is paramount for any society AND individual to succeed. When our current president in his bid for reelection said "You didn't build that" (so grossly taken out of context) what he meant was that without the roads and bridges and all the other help along the way, you could not have succeeded. It's blatantly simple. Without cooperation, society cannot succeed.
"Don't get me wrong, without individuality, society dies; without society, individuality dies." from "Ayn Nation Under God" by Hart Williams
Very well defined, Mr. Williams!
The real danger here is that a lot of these tea party types that have embraced this "Objectivism" have also pushed evangelical Christianity along with it. Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan was caught doing that very thing! Being a Catholic, he proclaimed to be a devotee of Ayn Rand's philosophy until someone pointed out that, "Uuh, Paul, Rand was an ATHEIST!", which caused him to embrace St. Thomas Aquinas as his new "patron saint" (nice try, Paul)
I highly recommend this excellent read, for it puts to rest any doubts you might have regarding the melding of a brutal, absurdist philosophy with what I personally regard as a fairy tale (as George Carlin so brilliantly put it- "Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet and they have to touch it to make sure") i'll leave you with this quote from the book:
"There is, finally, something monstrous and inhumane about a philosophy of `individualism' that depends on the rejection of the individualism of others as a prerequisite for affirming one's own. It is making one's self taller by cutting off the heads of all those are around one." ...from "Ayn Nation Under God" by Hart Williams
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