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  1. We have to talk about Jordan Peterson, Ayn Rand, and the Neo-Reactionaries.

    I'd say "Cool band name" but I don't want to think who would show up to the show... If there is one thing I would like to instill in the American public, it's the notion that you need to experience art you hate. When "people" say something is morally wrong to see or read, you should be curious about it. When you are offended by arts, it should be taken as an opportunity to figure out why, and what to do about it. When you are bored by art, you should, at the very least, make a mental note […]

    smutmag.com/2026/07/19/we-have

  2. We have to talk about Jordan Peterson, Ayn Rand, and the Neo-Reactionaries.

    I'd say "Cool band name" but I don't want to think who would show up to the show... If there is one thing I would like to instill in the American public, it's the notion that you need to experience art you hate. When "people" say something is morally wrong to see or read, you should be curious about it. When you are offended by arts, it should be taken as an opportunity to figure out why, and what to do about it. When you are bored by art, you should, at the very least, make a mental note […]

    smutmag.com/2026/07/19/we-have

  3. Nach Ayn Rand, der Kultphilosophin von Elon Musk & Co., "...sind alle staatlichen Eingriffe unmoralisch, denn sie behindern nicht nur die freie Entfaltung der Menschen, sondern sie verschlechtern auch die Versorgung der Bevölkerung mit Ressourcen, Gütern und Dienstleistungen (einschließlich Bildung und medizinischer Versorgung), deshalb sei strikter Laissez-faire-Kapitalismus das einzig legitime Wirtschaftssystem."
    Quelle: Wikipedia
    de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
    #NZZ #AynRand #Musk #BigTech

  4. Nach Ayn Rand, der Kultphilosophin von Elon Musk & Co., "...sind alle staatlichen Eingriffe unmoralisch, denn sie behindern nicht nur die freie Entfaltung der Menschen, sondern sie verschlechtern auch die Versorgung der Bevölkerung mit Ressourcen, Gütern und Dienstleistungen (einschließlich Bildung und medizinischer Versorgung), deshalb sei strikter Laissez-faire-Kapitalismus das einzig legitime Wirtschaftssystem."
    Quelle: Wikipedia
    de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
    #NZZ #AynRand #Musk #BigTech

  5. Nach Ayn Rand, der Kultphilosophin von Elon Musk & Co., "...sind alle staatlichen Eingriffe unmoralisch, denn sie behindern nicht nur die freie Entfaltung der Menschen, sondern sie verschlechtern auch die Versorgung der Bevölkerung mit Ressourcen, Gütern und Dienstleistungen (einschließlich Bildung und medizinischer Versorgung), deshalb sei strikter Laissez-faire-Kapitalismus das einzig legitime Wirtschaftssystem."
    Quelle: Wikipedia
    de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
    #NZZ #AynRand #Musk #BigTech

  6. Nach Ayn Rand, der Kultphilosophin von Elon Musk & Co., "...sind alle staatlichen Eingriffe unmoralisch, denn sie behindern nicht nur die freie Entfaltung der Menschen, sondern sie verschlechtern auch die Versorgung der Bevölkerung mit Ressourcen, Gütern und Dienstleistungen (einschließlich Bildung und medizinischer Versorgung), deshalb sei strikter Laissez-faire-Kapitalismus das einzig legitime Wirtschaftssystem."
    Quelle: Wikipedia
    de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
    #NZZ #AynRand #Musk #BigTech

  7. #AynRand 's insanely influential Atlas Shrugged (1957). The novel is adored by Silicon Valley tech giants.

    In a fictional America where the left holds sway, major business leaders—the only sources of true wealth—are on strike.

    I could imagine #CoryDoctorow writing a version where big business leaders go on strike and things carry on as usual.

    You don't have to read the 1000+ pages of the Atlas Shrugged :
    podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Sh

    #Books #Fiction #Oligarchy

  8. #AynRand 's insanely influential Atlas Shrugged (1957). The novel is adored by Silicon Valley tech giants.

    In a fictional America where the left holds sway, major business leaders—the only sources of true wealth—are on strike.

    I could imagine #CoryDoctorow writing a version where big business leaders go on strike and things carry on as usual.

    You don't have to read the 1000+ pages of the Atlas Shrugged :
    podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Sh

    #Books #Fiction #Oligarchy

  9. #AynRand 's insanely influential Atlas Shrugged (1957). The novel is adored by Silicon Valley tech giants.

    In a fictional America where the left holds sway, major business leaders—the only sources of true wealth—are on strike.

    I could imagine #CoryDoctorow writing a version where big business leaders go on strike and things carry on as usual.

    You don't have to read the 1000+ pages of the Atlas Shrugged :
    podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Sh

    #Books #Fiction #Oligarchy

  10. #AynRand 's insanely influential Atlas Shrugged (1957). The novel is adored by Silicon Valley tech giants.

    In a fictional America where the left holds sway, major business leaders—the only sources of true wealth—are on strike.

    I could imagine #CoryDoctorow writing a version where big business leaders go on strike and things carry on as usual.

    You don't have to read the 1000+ pages of the Atlas Shrugged :
    podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Sh

    #Books #Fiction #Oligarchy

  11. #AynRand 's insanely influential Atlas Shrugged (1957). The novel is adored by Silicon Valley tech giants.

    In a fictional America where the left holds sway, major business leaders—the only sources of true wealth—are on strike.

    I could imagine #CoryDoctorow writing a version where big business leaders go on strike and things carry on as usual.

    You don't have to read the 1000+ pages of the Atlas Shrugged :
    podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Sh

    #Books #Fiction #Oligarchy

  12. The pitch is simple: Read Atlas Shrugged. Win $100,000.

    The Intellectual Olympics for Independent Thinkers

    The future belongs to those willing to examine the world independently and argue persuasively for the ideas they believe are true. The Atlas Prize was created to recognize and reward the kind of thinking that drives progress: rigorous reasoning, philosophical curiosity, and intellectual ambition.

    Why Atlas Shrugged?

    Few novels have sparked as much debate or influenced as many readers as #Ayn Rand 's Atlas Shrugged.

    The novel challenges readers to confront fundamental questions about reason, morality, ambition, and the role of business in human flourishing.

    The Atlas Prize invites young thinkers to grapple seriously with these ideas—to analyze them, question them, defend them, or challenge them using their own independent judgment. Agreement with Rand's ideas is not required; deeply and originally engaging with them is.

    Get your FREE copy of Atlas Shrugged here.

    Note: The Atlas Prize is looking for shockingly original thinkers. Essays simply copied from AI will not make it past the first round of the competition.

    The competition is open only to individuals aged 16 to 22 as of the start of the entry period.

    #AtlasPrize #AynRand Objectivism #fiction #bookstodon #philosophy

  13. The pitch is simple: Read Atlas Shrugged. Win $100,000.

    The Intellectual Olympics for Independent Thinkers

    The future belongs to those willing to examine the world independently and argue persuasively for the ideas they believe are true. The Atlas Prize was created to recognize and reward the kind of thinking that drives progress: rigorous reasoning, philosophical curiosity, and intellectual ambition.

    Why Atlas Shrugged?

    Few novels have sparked as much debate or influenced as many readers as #Ayn Rand 's Atlas Shrugged.

    The novel challenges readers to confront fundamental questions about reason, morality, ambition, and the role of business in human flourishing.

    The Atlas Prize invites young thinkers to grapple seriously with these ideas—to analyze them, question them, defend them, or challenge them using their own independent judgment. Agreement with Rand's ideas is not required; deeply and originally engaging with them is.

    Get your FREE copy of Atlas Shrugged here.

    Note: The Atlas Prize is looking for shockingly original thinkers. Essays simply copied from AI will not make it past the first round of the competition.

    The competition is open only to individuals aged 16 to 22 as of the start of the entry period.

    #AtlasPrize #AynRand Objectivism #fiction #bookstodon #philosophy

  14. The pitch is simple: Read Atlas Shrugged. Win $100,000.

    The Intellectual Olympics for Independent Thinkers

    The future belongs to those willing to examine the world independently and argue persuasively for the ideas they believe are true. The Atlas Prize was created to recognize and reward the kind of thinking that drives progress: rigorous reasoning, philosophical curiosity, and intellectual ambition.

    Why Atlas Shrugged?

    Few novels have sparked as much debate or influenced as many readers as #Ayn Rand 's Atlas Shrugged.

    The novel challenges readers to confront fundamental questions about reason, morality, ambition, and the role of business in human flourishing.

    The Atlas Prize invites young thinkers to grapple seriously with these ideas—to analyze them, question them, defend them, or challenge them using their own independent judgment. Agreement with Rand's ideas is not required; deeply and originally engaging with them is.

    Get your FREE copy of Atlas Shrugged here.

    Note: The Atlas Prize is looking for shockingly original thinkers. Essays simply copied from AI will not make it past the first round of the competition.

    The competition is open only to individuals aged 16 to 22 as of the start of the entry period.

    #AtlasPrize #AynRand Objectivism #fiction #bookstodon #philosophy

  15. The pitch is simple: Read Atlas Shrugged. Win $100,000.

    The Intellectual Olympics for Independent Thinkers

    The future belongs to those willing to examine the world independently and argue persuasively for the ideas they believe are true. The Atlas Prize was created to recognize and reward the kind of thinking that drives progress: rigorous reasoning, philosophical curiosity, and intellectual ambition.

    Why Atlas Shrugged?

    Few novels have sparked as much debate or influenced as many readers as #Ayn Rand 's Atlas Shrugged.

    The novel challenges readers to confront fundamental questions about reason, morality, ambition, and the role of business in human flourishing.

    The Atlas Prize invites young thinkers to grapple seriously with these ideas—to analyze them, question them, defend them, or challenge them using their own independent judgment. Agreement with Rand's ideas is not required; deeply and originally engaging with them is.

    Get your FREE copy of Atlas Shrugged here.

    Note: The Atlas Prize is looking for shockingly original thinkers. Essays simply copied from AI will not make it past the first round of the competition.

    The competition is open only to individuals aged 16 to 22 as of the start of the entry period.

    #AtlasPrize #AynRand Objectivism #fiction #bookstodon #philosophy

  16. The pitch is simple: Read Atlas Shrugged. Win $100,000.

    The Intellectual Olympics for Independent Thinkers

    The future belongs to those willing to examine the world independently and argue persuasively for the ideas they believe are true. The Atlas Prize was created to recognize and reward the kind of thinking that drives progress: rigorous reasoning, philosophical curiosity, and intellectual ambition.

    Why Atlas Shrugged?

    Few novels have sparked as much debate or influenced as many readers as #Ayn Rand 's Atlas Shrugged.

    The novel challenges readers to confront fundamental questions about reason, morality, ambition, and the role of business in human flourishing.

    The Atlas Prize invites young thinkers to grapple seriously with these ideas—to analyze them, question them, defend them, or challenge them using their own independent judgment. Agreement with Rand's ideas is not required; deeply and originally engaging with them is.

    Get your FREE copy of Atlas Shrugged here.

    Note: The Atlas Prize is looking for shockingly original thinkers. Essays simply copied from AI will not make it past the first round of the competition.

    The competition is open only to individuals aged 16 to 22 as of the start of the entry period.

    #AtlasPrize #AynRand Objectivism #fiction #bookstodon #philosophy

  17. @jemmesedi After writing tedious fiction about living only for the benefit of one’s self, and that acolytes considered ‘#philosophy ‘, #AynRand ended her life living on #SocialSecurity payments from the #UnitedStates government. 🤷🏻‍♂️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

  18. @jemmesedi After writing tedious fiction about living only for the benefit of one’s self, and that acolytes considered ‘#philosophy ‘, #AynRand ended her life living on #SocialSecurity payments from the #UnitedStates government. 🤷🏻‍♂️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

  19. @jemmesedi After writing tedious fiction about living only for the benefit of one’s self, and that acolytes considered ‘#philosophy ‘, #AynRand ended her life living on #SocialSecurity payments from the #UnitedStates government. 🤷🏻‍♂️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

  20. @jemmesedi After writing tedious fiction about living only for the benefit of one’s self, and that acolytes considered ‘#philosophy ‘, #AynRand ended her life living on #SocialSecurity payments from the #UnitedStates government. 🤷🏻‍♂️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

  21. @jemmesedi After writing tedious fiction about living only for the benefit of one’s self, and that acolytes considered ‘#philosophy ‘, #AynRand ended her life living on #SocialSecurity payments from the #UnitedStates government. 🤷🏻‍♂️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

  22. Ayn Rand’s Italian Debut – Robert Steven Mack

    If Zohran Mamdani intended to come across as an Ayn Rand villain when he pledged to “replace the…
    #Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #anti-communism #antisocialism #AynRand #communism #RobertMack #Russia #socialism #WetheLiving
    europesays.com/italy/22393/

  23. Ayn Rand, Ton van ’t Hof, 2026, acryl op papier, 50 x 40 cm
    #painting #portrait #aynrand

  24. Ayn Rand, Ton van ’t Hof, 2026, acryl op papier, 50 x 40 cm
    #painting #portrait #aynrand

  25. Ayn Rand, Ton van ’t Hof, 2026, acryl op papier, 50 x 40 cm
    #painting #portrait #aynrand

  26. Ayn Rand, Ton van ’t Hof, 2026, acryl op papier, 50 x 40 cm
    #painting #portrait #aynrand

  27. Ayn Rand, Ton van ’t Hof, 2026, acryl op papier, 50 x 40 cm
    #painting #portrait #aynrand

  28. Tooting this publicly, since the thread was unlisted:

    Re: #Wikipedia and #JimmyWales,

    Jimmy Wales is an #Objectivist (follower of the philosophy of #AynRand), and doesn't believe in #altruism.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales#Personal_philosophy

    He has rejected the notion that his role in promoting Wikipedia is altruistic, which he defines as "sacrificing your own values for others", and he states that the idea that "participating in a benevolent effort to share information is somehow destroying your own values makes no sense to me".

    That alone doesn't make him a bad person, but union-busting Wikipedia certainly does, and is in character for Randian folk. :P~

    I'm not very familiar with Objectivism, but I imagine that it positions itself as a positive individualist philosophy. That somehow by pursuing our own good, we pursue the good of others, too, or something.

    Yeah, right. 🤨

  29. Tooting this publicly, since the thread was unlisted:

    Re: #Wikipedia and #JimmyWales,

    Jimmy Wales is an #Objectivist (follower of the philosophy of #AynRand), and doesn't believe in #altruism.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales#Personal_philosophy

    He has rejected the notion that his role in promoting Wikipedia is altruistic, which he defines as "sacrificing your own values for others", and he states that the idea that "participating in a benevolent effort to share information is somehow destroying your own values makes no sense to me".

    That alone doesn't make him a bad person, but union-busting Wikipedia certainly does, and is in character for Randian folk. :P~

    I'm not very familiar with Objectivism, but I imagine that it positions itself as a positive individualist philosophy. That somehow by pursuing our own good, we pursue the good of others, too, or something.

    Yeah, right. 🤨

  30. Tooting this publicly, since the thread was unlisted:

    Re: #Wikipedia and #JimmyWales,

    Jimmy Wales is an #Objectivist (follower of the philosophy of #AynRand), and doesn't believe in #altruism.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales#Personal_philosophy

    He has rejected the notion that his role in promoting Wikipedia is altruistic, which he defines as "sacrificing your own values for others", and he states that the idea that "participating in a benevolent effort to share information is somehow destroying your own values makes no sense to me".

    That alone doesn't make him a bad person, but union-busting Wikipedia certainly does, and is in character for Randian folk. :P~

    I'm not very familiar with Objectivism, but I imagine that it positions itself as a positive individualist philosophy. That somehow by pursuing our own good, we pursue the good of others, too, or something.

    Yeah, right. 🤨

  31. Tooting this publicly, since the thread was unlisted:

    Re: #Wikipedia and #JimmyWales,

    Jimmy Wales is an #Objectivist (follower of the philosophy of #AynRand), and doesn't believe in #altruism.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales#Personal_philosophy

    He has rejected the notion that his role in promoting Wikipedia is altruistic, which he defines as "sacrificing your own values for others", and he states that the idea that "participating in a benevolent effort to share information is somehow destroying your own values makes no sense to me".

    That alone doesn't make him a bad person, but union-busting Wikipedia certainly does, and is in character for Randian folk. :P~

    I'm not very familiar with Objectivism, but I imagine that it positions itself as a positive individualist philosophy. That somehow by pursuing our own good, we pursue the good of others, too, or something.

    Yeah, right. 🤨

  32. Tooting this publicly, since the thread was unlisted:

    Re: #Wikipedia and #JimmyWales,

    Jimmy Wales is an #Objectivist (follower of the philosophy of #AynRand), and doesn't believe in #altruism.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales#Personal_philosophy

    He has rejected the notion that his role in promoting Wikipedia is altruistic, which he defines as "sacrificing your own values for others", and he states that the idea that "participating in a benevolent effort to share information is somehow destroying your own values makes no sense to me".

    That alone doesn't make him a bad person, but union-busting Wikipedia certainly does, and is in character for Randian folk. :P~

    I'm not very familiar with Objectivism, but I imagine that it positions itself as a positive individualist philosophy. That somehow by pursuing our own good, we pursue the good of others, too, or something.

    Yeah, right. 🤨

  33. Pues he visto la película "El Manantial" (King Vidor, 1949) y no paraba de imaginarme a Ayn Rand durante el rodaje asintiendo con la cabeza a cada frase panfletaria que soltaban los personajes.Como el Jack Nicholson de abajo.

    #ElManantial #TheFountainhead #AynRand #Panfleto #xp

  34. Pues he visto la película "El Manantial" (King Vidor, 1949) y no paraba de imaginarme a Ayn Rand durante el rodaje asintiendo con la cabeza a cada frase panfletaria que soltaban los personajes.Como el Jack Nicholson de abajo.

    #ElManantial #TheFountainhead #AynRand #Panfleto #xp

  35. I think my goal is to specifically see what I can do to integrate both a collectivist and individualist sensibility in my philosophical view. I think to really have a complete philosophy, both of these things have to be considered: individuals cannot properly understand the consequences of actions taken at the personal level without understanding how those actions fit into and will be responded to by larger societal frameworks. At the same time, we cannot achieve collective benefit without considering how collective actions affect individuals.

    I do not yet fully know what philosophical and political frameworks would best help me construct this philosophy, excepting that I think communist theory will undoubtedly be a big part of it, and it will most certainly be very different than Objectivism, excepting the respect for personal bodily autonomy.

    Rand was not a feminist, in fact she decried feminism, but she was pro-bodily automomy and supported the right to abortion and in general the right of women to work the same types of jobs as men. I think the thing that Ayn Rand and other right libertarians crucially misunderstand is that a larger social dynamic like misogyny will prevent women from having individual bodily autonomy. They don't understand it because they imagine the world as it is as a meritocracy where only the best rise to the top, and so they imagine the preponderence of men in high social positions is due to the inherent superiority of those men rather than misogynistic favoring of men regardless of ability. They don't understand that women will simply not be allowed bodily automomy in a deeply misogynistic society, that individual bodily autonomy in general will never be allowed most individuals in a capitalist society.

  36. I think my goal is to specifically see what I can do to integrate both a collectivist and individualist sensibility in my philosophical view. I think to really have a complete philosophy, both of these things have to be considered: individuals cannot properly understand the consequences of actions taken at the personal level without understanding how those actions fit into and will be responded to by larger societal frameworks. At the same time, we cannot achieve collective benefit without considering how collective actions affect individuals.

    I do not yet fully know what philosophical and political frameworks would best help me construct this philosophy, excepting that I think communist theory will undoubtedly be a big part of it, and it will most certainly be very different than Objectivism, excepting the respect for personal bodily autonomy.

    Rand was not a feminist, in fact she decried feminism, but she was pro-bodily automomy and supported the right to abortion and in general the right of women to work the same types of jobs as men. I think the thing that Ayn Rand and other right libertarians crucially misunderstand is that a larger social dynamic like misogyny will prevent women from having individual bodily autonomy. They don't understand it because they imagine the world as it is as a meritocracy where only the best rise to the top, and so they imagine the preponderence of men in high social positions is due to the inherent superiority of those men rather than misogynistic favoring of men regardless of ability. They don't understand that women will simply not be allowed bodily automomy in a deeply misogynistic society, that individual bodily autonomy in general will never be allowed most individuals in a capitalist society.