Depends, romansh, on when you would've asked Ms. Rand--before or after she took her Social Security and Medicare benefits.romansh wrote:Bill ClintonNow if Ayn Rand had said this it might take on a different slant.I want to leave a better world. The reason you should do things for other people is selfish. There’s no difference between selfish and selfless if you understand how the world works. We’re all tied together. We live in an interdependent world.
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I have not read anything of Rand's and everything I have come across is second or third hand through mainly liberal eyes. This by and large as been unflattering.Cindy B. wrote:Depends, romansh, on when you would've asked Ms. Rand--before or after she took her Social Security and Medicare benefits.romansh wrote:Bill ClintonNow if Ayn Rand had said this it might take on a different slant.I want to leave a better world. The reason you should do things for other people is selfish. There’s no difference between selfish and selfless if you understand how the world works. We’re all tied together. We live in an interdependent world.
From what I understand of her world view, she simply did not take it far enough and to its logical conclusion where she would have seen it through Clinton's eyes (I think). That she can be seen as hypocritical, perhaps? Maybe she was true to herself and said sod it to the principle and took advantage of the system.
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Remember that I talk off the top of the pile of thoughts that manage to find a place inside my noggin. Take it lightly, throw it up in the air and let it land and roll down until it stops moving.Roncooper wrote:Carmela.
Thanks for the input. I'll think it over.
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The most interesting thing about Rand is how popular her POV was and is.
There is something mesmerizing in it, even when it does not work. There is a mean-spiritedness about it that absolutely and violently repels me.
I agree that folks who claim to be acting out of selfless lack of ego and total altruism are either admitting self-hatred or lying to themselves (and others) or they are being both self-hating and hypocritical.
That does not mean that we should condemn those who are selfless and giving. It just mans our respect for such a person is a recognition of our own potential to behave in exactly the same way, if the situation could be replicated. If it is God's work, then we are all capable of being like God to some degree, if that is our want.
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There is something mesmerizing in it, even when it does not work. There is a mean-spiritedness about it that absolutely and violently repels me.
I agree that folks who claim to be acting out of selfless lack of ego and total altruism are either admitting self-hatred or lying to themselves (and others) or they are being both self-hating and hypocritical.
That does not mean that we should condemn those who are selfless and giving. It just mans our respect for such a person is a recognition of our own potential to behave in exactly the same way, if the situation could be replicated. If it is God's work, then we are all capable of being like God to some degree, if that is our want.
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IMHO Ayn Rand is just one more "let them eat cake." conservative. She has her wealth and if you don't, that's because you are lazy. She glorifies power for its own sake.
She was never in a position of power but she wrote a philosophy about it. It is a philosophy written from ignorance and inexperience.
I read "The Fountainhead," a long time ago. The characters were two dimensional stereotypes. The main character was a strong will, powerful male. There was also a rich female character. Interestingly, after he rapes her, she falls in love with him and she becomes a better person. It’s a great message.
Ron
She was never in a position of power but she wrote a philosophy about it. It is a philosophy written from ignorance and inexperience.
I read "The Fountainhead," a long time ago. The characters were two dimensional stereotypes. The main character was a strong will, powerful male. There was also a rich female character. Interestingly, after he rapes her, she falls in love with him and she becomes a better person. It’s a great message.
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Not sure about this - I think there is a proviso - your model was too simpleCarmelaBear wrote: Models are supposed to help us. The more simple the model, the more likely it is to hold up under greater and more repeated scrutiny.
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Thank you for this post:
I have read the posts you listed and I think my dimensions are what Jung called functions of the psyche. I have a different spin on these functions, which I will post as soon as I get the time.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. --Jung
This quote is my current Signature, Ron, so it pops up with every post that I make. Go to your Profile page if you'd like to create Signatures of your own. I frequently change mine, and this one came to mind again during my recent conversation with James about the US gun control debate.
By the way, this quote reflects the Jungian concepts of opposites and shadow. You can read about the shadow here if you'd like; scroll down midway. Here you can read about opposites and enantiodromia.
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Ron,
I have a suggestion. Consider creating a new thread delineating your five types. Folks would be glad to explore your ideas, I'm sure, and right now your original post is hidden in another thread. You can save yourself time and work, too, with a simple copy & paste of your original post into the opening post of the new thread. It's up to you, of course.
Also and just so you know, Jung used the terms types and functions in ways specific to analytical psychology. You can check it out here if you'd like.
I have a suggestion. Consider creating a new thread delineating your five types. Folks would be glad to explore your ideas, I'm sure, and right now your original post is hidden in another thread. You can save yourself time and work, too, with a simple copy & paste of your original post into the opening post of the new thread. It's up to you, of course.
Also and just so you know, Jung used the terms types and functions in ways specific to analytical psychology. You can check it out here if you'd like.
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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
Once in a while a door opens, and let's in the future. --- Graham Greene
Just to create a bit of an antithesis carmela.
All the technological progress of these last years has only taught human beings how to kill more of each other faster. It's very difficult for me to retain a sanguine outlook on life under such circumstances. —Akira Kurosawa
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I think this quote here will resonate with most here.
It is attributed to Albert Einstein:
but after another five minute search ....
and an earlier version
I am reminded of the New Testament scribes adding their wisdom to a dusty memory of an apocryphal quote
It is attributed to Albert Einstein:
I haven't found the original source in my five minute search of the web.If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
but after another five minute search ....
here... an anxious mother who wanted to help her child become a scientist: "First, give him fairy tales; second, give him fairy tales, and third, give him fairy tales!"
and an earlier version
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#DisputedFound in Montana Libraries: Volumes 8-14 (1954), p. cxxx. The story is given as follows: "In the current New Mexico Library Bulletin, Elizabeth Margulis tells a story of a woman who was a personal friend of the late dean of scientists, Dr. Albert Einstein. Motivated partly by her admiration for him, she held hopes that her son might become a scientist. One day she asked Dr. Einstein's advice about the kind of reading that would best prepare the child for this career. To her surprise, the scientist recommended 'Fairy tales and more fairy tales.' The mother protested that she was really serious about this and she wanted a serious answer; but Dr. Einstein persisted, adding that creative imagination is the essential element in the intellectual equipment of the true scientist, and that fairy tales are the childhood stimulus to this quality." However, it is unclear from this description whether Margulis heard this story personally from the woman who had supposedly had this discussion with Einstein, and the relevant issue of the New Mexico Library Bulletin does not appear to be online.
I am reminded of the New Testament scribes adding their wisdom to a dusty memory of an apocryphal quote
"That's right!" shouted Vroomfondel, "we demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"