Tuesday, October 12, 2004
MLP: The Objectivist Death Cult by Justin Raimondo
The Objectivist Death Cult by Justin Raimondo
Raimondo writes, speaking of Leonard Peikoff and his following of extremely warmongering Objectivists::
"[T]he influence of their West versus the Rest mentality runs deep in libertarian circles, due almost entirely, I would submit, to the influence of Ayn Rand, who dismissed Palestinians as subhuman "savages" and whose foreign policy views were based, not only any knowledge of specific areas of the world, but on highly stylized abstractions unconnected to any facts."
Facts? Michael Scheur, CIA analyst and writer, assesses the causes of Muslim belligerence:
"America is hated and attacked because Muslims believe they know precisely what the United States is doing in the Islamic world. They know partly because of bin Laden’s words, partly because of satellite television, but mostly because of the tangible reality of US policy. "
Drawing one conclusion from his own assessment of all this, Raimondo notes:
"In order to discover the truth about what is going on in the world, it is necessary know what you are talking about: you can’t derive the answers to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, or the how to defeat Al Qaeda, or what position to take on the Iraq war, from knowing that "A is A.""
This is surely all too true for someone--myself--who mostly knows a couple of tropes--and very few facts.
Ahoy!
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Raimondo writes, speaking of Leonard Peikoff and his following of extremely warmongering Objectivists::
"[T]he influence of their West versus the Rest mentality runs deep in libertarian circles, due almost entirely, I would submit, to the influence of Ayn Rand, who dismissed Palestinians as subhuman "savages" and whose foreign policy views were based, not only any knowledge of specific areas of the world, but on highly stylized abstractions unconnected to any facts."
Facts? Michael Scheur, CIA analyst and writer, assesses the causes of Muslim belligerence:
"America is hated and attacked because Muslims believe they know precisely what the United States is doing in the Islamic world. They know partly because of bin Laden’s words, partly because of satellite television, but mostly because of the tangible reality of US policy. "
Drawing one conclusion from his own assessment of all this, Raimondo notes:
"In order to discover the truth about what is going on in the world, it is necessary know what you are talking about: you can’t derive the answers to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, or the how to defeat Al Qaeda, or what position to take on the Iraq war, from knowing that "A is A.""
This is surely all too true for someone--myself--who mostly knows a couple of tropes--and very few facts.
Ahoy!
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