@chaosprime I loved the part that, I think, she wanted others to really focus on. A sort of challenge to the bland nihilism of 50's US.
@FullPresence oh, well, yeah. or at least a species thereof. depending on whether your usage of "religion" requires woo or not.
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@chaosprime I think LaVey was honest about that; yes, it does, but if you do so knowingly somehow it make sense. -
@FullPresence mostly i mean that subsuming your cognition in a system can happen outside of things we normally think of as "religions" -
@FullPresence which iirc Rand addressed by calling Leninism a religion, which seems like terminology abuse to me, but whatevs -
@FullPresence also: every time somebody mentions Uncle Anton i am helpless to not remember how he wrote an essay in which he predicted that… -
@FullPresence …in the future we would all become exactly the chair-bound people depicted on the spaceship in WALL-E
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@chaosprime By take back Rand, not for my POV. I'm an anarchist now (which means I am a socialist too). More "She's an atheist, can't have" -
@FullPresence not reclaim for yourself but deny to the unworthy. legit. -
@chaosprime Because, compared to any of her religious critics, she still towers above them. Though many more tower above her.
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