One of the things Objectivists hated me saying most at a meetup was: “How much irrationality should one tolerate?” This essay cuts straight to the heart of that discomfort.
while I was speaking to say, cutting off a schizophrenic family member or flat earth uncle, you’ve hit the heart of the matter.
If even something like gold requires a shared belief system to function, then it isn’t the absence of abstraction that people like Rand are defending—it’s their preferred form of it. But that raises the real problem: if all value systems rely on some layer of irrational, intersubjective trust, what exactly is a “rational” philosophy standing on? You’ve exposed how much of so-called rationality is actually just taste masquerading as principle.
One of the things Objectivists hated me saying most at a meetup was: “How much irrationality should one tolerate?” This essay cuts straight to the heart of that discomfort.
while I was speaking to say, cutting off a schizophrenic family member or flat earth uncle, you’ve hit the heart of the matter.
If even something like gold requires a shared belief system to function, then it isn’t the absence of abstraction that people like Rand are defending—it’s their preferred form of it. But that raises the real problem: if all value systems rely on some layer of irrational, intersubjective trust, what exactly is a “rational” philosophy standing on? You’ve exposed how much of so-called rationality is actually just taste masquerading as principle.
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