Give me a break! Nietzcheans aren't Randites
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Andromeda is a fairly well written show, as Sci-fi seems to go these days, but the writers seem to only read the back jacket on philosophy books!
I MEAN... HEY! The Nietzcheans would make Ayn Rand screach in disgust! They aren't capitalists-- they're slave-makin', thieving, double-talking dishonorable jerks! How could these genetically engineered morons read Rand and act like such schmeg-heads! They act like IRS field agents!
OK, I can tell that most of y'all never finished Atlas Shrugged (or couldn't get it), but Objectivism (Randism) goes about like so:
1. There is a reality which all our wishing and praying won't change.
2. Self-esteem is good. Ego is good. Reasoned self-interest is good, unless you violate #3. We should want to survive and thrive. Individualism, personal liberty, and freedom are our only birthrights.
3. We don't have any right that takes away someone else's rights nor should anybody else screw with ours. (We shouldn't steal, not even with the government's help). Taxation should be voluntary.
4. Money is our key to freedom, as commerce should be completely voluntary. People can work together, voluntarily (GPL!) and that's great, but laws that take away our rights are bad.
There are some corollaries to these, like Atheism, Libertarianism, and the evil of Socialism and other means of screwing the lucky and/or capable members of society.
Oh, and yeah she was pretty skeptical of mega-corporations without an individual owner that claim only to be out for the 'good of the stockholders' or the 'public good'. In her books sooner or later the CEO and board members try to screw everybody using the government!
-- mycr0ft
(BTW Frederich Nietzsche is totally contrarian to objectivism anyway, since he babbles about mysticism and destiny and graced superiority and other such crap.)
I despise Microsoft products, and don't use them. They are models of poor design and cater to the lazy-minded. However, the government had no business to 'punish' microsoft for being successful. No-one has put a gun to my head yet and told me to use their products. But the state, the only part of our society vested with the use of uninitiated force, has chosen to attack a successful entrepeneur (the same state that buys almost exclusively microsoft products) and break up his company, not because his products suck, but because he has marketed his lame products so successfully.
See the Moral Defense of Microsoft site for the reasoned libertarian/capitalist viewpoint. Don't forget that McNealy was more than a little uncomfortable with a government attack on the competition.
()-- Mycr0ft --()
Oh, and yeah, keep building superior GPL products and get everybody to stop using that microsoft crap. Keep it fair folks!
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I MEAN... HEY! The Nietzcheans would make Ayn Rand screach in disgust! They aren't capitalists-- they're slave-makin', thieving, double-talking dishonorable jerks! How could these genetically engineered morons read Rand and act like such schmeg-heads! They act like IRS field agents!
OK, I can tell that most of y'all never finished Atlas Shrugged (or couldn't get it), but Objectivism (Randism) goes about like so:
1. There is a reality which all our wishing and praying won't change.
2. Self-esteem is good. Ego is good. Reasoned self-interest is good, unless you violate #3. We should want to survive and thrive. Individualism, personal liberty, and freedom are our only birthrights.
3. We don't have any right that takes away someone else's rights nor should anybody else screw with ours. (We shouldn't steal, not even with the government's help). Taxation should be voluntary.
4. Money is our key to freedom, as commerce should be completely voluntary. People can work together, voluntarily (GPL!) and that's great, but laws that take away our rights are bad.
There are some corollaries to these, like Atheism, Libertarianism, and the evil of Socialism and other means of screwing the lucky and/or capable members of society.
Oh, and yeah she was pretty skeptical of mega-corporations without an individual owner that claim only to be out for the 'good of the stockholders' or the 'public good'. In her books sooner or later the CEO and board members try to screw everybody using the government!
-- mycr0ft
(BTW Frederich Nietzsche is totally contrarian to objectivism anyway, since he babbles about mysticism and destiny and graced superiority and other such crap.)
I despise Microsoft products, and don't use them. They are models of poor design and cater to the lazy-minded.
However, the government had no business to 'punish' microsoft for being successful. No-one has put a gun to my head yet and told me to use their products. But the state, the only part of our society vested with the use of uninitiated force, has chosen to attack a successful entrepeneur (the same state that buys almost exclusively microsoft products) and break up his company, not because his products suck, but because he has marketed his lame products so successfully.
See the Moral Defense of Microsoft site for the reasoned libertarian/capitalist viewpoint.
Don't forget that McNealy was more than a little uncomfortable with a government attack on the competition.
()-- Mycr0ft --()
Oh, and yeah, keep building superior GPL products and get everybody to stop using that microsoft crap. Keep it fair folks!