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  • Jean Boutcher · 6 months ago
    Three reasons why I do not appreciate Plato, Aristotle, and Ayn Rand are as follows:

    1. Plato was dreaming of a utopia where all PERFECT people would live together. Imperfect people, including the deaf, the blind, the like, were the ones Plato did not want to live with.

    2. Everybody knows that Aristotle considered deaf people as the ones who were incapable to reason (were uneducateable) and was the one who told the Greek government to dump into the forest.

    3. Ayn Rand believed that greed was good (look at greedy banks, AIG, Freddie-Fannie, and the like)
    and was anti-altruism. Sound familiar? Yay, if one reads "Thus Spake Zarathustra." Which is why Ayn Rand is called "neo-Nietzsche" which is dangerous if one looks at the history of the Nazi Germany.

    Many naive readers are crazy about the aforementioned. Sad, n'est-ce pas? Therefore, one woud have to read their works with judgment and intelligence and be skeptical. (That was why Bush was in trouble.)
  • ecnarb · 6 months ago
    Thank you for your comment. Who do you appreciate the most? Marx? Like in our current state.

    I strongly believe in Laissez-Faire capitialism like with Pia Varma (piavarma.com). With a separation of economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as a separation of state and church.

    The Church speaks of four sins that cry to heaven for vengeance. Two are cheating workers out of wages and exploiting widows and children. Both happen every day in our greedy country.

    Ambition is not evil within limits. The struggle for success is not bad within limits. Hard work and fair rewards are good within limits. It is not good to take from the poor and give to the rich, and that's exactly what this country is doing today.

    Remember Joe the Plumber, Jean?