/lit/ - Literature

>>23896881
>That's just a dumb comedy sketch from 12 years ago
Doesn't matter, why would it? People peddle the falsehood it presents and are influenced by it all the same.
The only reasons it is fallaciously labeled a cult are thus:
A. threat to the Altruist ethical paradigm
B. intensity of conviction, which yes is in fact ONE of the hallmarks of being a cult
C. Objectivism's opposition to epistemic subjectivism and skepticism
Objectivism is not a cult as it can only be said to possess one of their hallmarks and does not satisfy the rest.
You did not conclude this idea honestly, it was given to you.

>>12859479
Rand said nor implied such a thing and her only point was what ethical maxim should be treated with primacy. She makes the astute observation that since everything must begin with the individual and be birthed from said individual's ego, the development of that ego is what makes possible and gives potency to any act or goal one could choose to pursue, including helping others and including in a commual/social capacity. These are secondary and contextually relational (let's also admire one of her many discovered original logical fallacies: the Context Dropping Fallacy) Her point is that what should be treated with primacy is the happiness and interest of the self and not concept of the group, the environment man operates in, or the interplay of concepts within the social totality. A collective is only a group of given individuals and nothing more, and has no justifiable basis to be treated as anything more than that especially not a standard which to refer all your concepts to. This then consistently interweaves to her philosophic principle in politics of objective nature of rights and how the science of applying them should be performed, justifiable down through all the branches of philosophy and knowledge to metaphysics and the 3 objective axioms. Existence, Consciouness, Identity.
Her philosophy is a fully integrated system like no other. No philosophy stresses conceptual integration to the degree Objectivism does. Though Rand shit talkers seldom exhibit cognizance of anything but the ethics and politics of her system.
Eh another day another strawRand.

>What are some meta skills that are the most important?
There are few greater tools one can internalize than Ayn Rand's psycho-epistemolgy.
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/psycho-epistemology.html
http://www.appliedphilosophyonline.com/psycho-epistemology.htm
http://attitudeadjustment.tripod.com/Essays/PENELOPE.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHmu4cG5lzY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_3mZNj9ee8
I'd say p-e is so meta that it can and will benefit any exploit you choose to do after it. But it is by no means easy.

>>11955149
Rand threads are old and tired at this point. We need more Peikoff threads.