Yes, that's what I mean about the "A is A" thing. Additionally, she dismisses subjectivity in fields were subjectivity is inherent- art, music, literature. For example- there is the composer Dagny loves so much. His music is not as widely acclaimed as he feels it should be, so he joins the strike. The presupposition is his music is objectively brilliant but the world is too full of Philistines to accept this, and that is flat-out ridiculous. Maybe the music really isn't very good; maybe Dagny just has questionable taste.
I didn't find them happy at all. On the contrary, they seem pretty miserable most of the time, in spite of constant proclamations of happiness. They are full bitterness, scorn and derision. They are so caught up in their own sense of entitlement they fail to see how important the contributions of other people have been to them. When they talk about living, they seem to me the ability to do whatever one wants, no matter the cost to others, and the focus on money to the exclusion of any other motive appears empty and devoid of anything meaningful.
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Re: I See What You Mean
Date: 2008-06-24 06:24 pm (UTC)I didn't find them happy at all. On the contrary, they seem pretty miserable most of the time, in spite of constant proclamations of happiness. They are full bitterness, scorn and derision. They are so caught up in their own sense of entitlement they fail to see how important the contributions of other people have been to them. When they talk about living, they seem to me the ability to do whatever one wants, no matter the cost to others, and the focus on money to the exclusion of any other motive appears empty and devoid of anything meaningful.
It seems a terribly empty existence to me.