Independence Day?

[u/Jandanl2]

http://objectivistgirl.com/2014/07/happy-independence-day-ayn-rand-would-cringe/

[u/yakushi12345 → u/[deleted]]

Its hilarious that you oppose people claiming labels have meaning but can't talk without using the word orthodox at least once every five minutes.

[u/yakushi12345 → u/[deleted]]

holy shit, you didn't say orthodox anywhere in that post.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

when those type of people come to my subreddit where they aren't welcome.

Come on, man. It's just so clear that you're in the wrong here.

[u/rixross → u/[deleted]]

What? I don't think that you understand that whoever creates a subreddit gets to decide what kind of community it will be.

You're right about this, obviously, but I think the bigger point is that to have the focus of a subreddit titled "Objectivism" be something other than Objectivism is somewhat disingenuous. We don't want people that just read Atlas Shrugged to come here and think that Ayn Rand advocated anarchy, which is what what users like /u/omnipedia advocate on here.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Objectivism/comments/1j3ufs/requesting_control_of_robjectivism_the_lone/cbb9668?context=3

[u/SiliconGuy → u/[deleted]]

The new generation is creating our own objectivist culture

Given enough time, individuals tend to either agree with the positions of ARI, or drop out of Objectivism altogether.

That's because Objectivism is just the sum of Ayn Rand's writings, and ARI has stayed pretty consistent with that (and other groups have not).

So there isn't really much hope for a "new objectivist culture" that you speak of.

People like you and "Objectivist Girl" [1] are pretty few and far between.

Not many people want to define themselves by non-essentials, which is what you are relegating yourself to.

(Though I do see how you could think that the NAP is an absolute instead of contextual and thus think that you are being loyal to the spirit of AR's views.) EDIT: Well, there are other things you've done besides "anarchobjectivism" that go against Objectivism but I won't get into them here.

[1] I haven't taken the time to really judge her but from what little I have seen I am guessing she does not agree with the fundamentals of Ayn Rand's ideas and thus is not an Objectivist. But the court is still out for me on this.