Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel (part 1 of 2)

From Jared Diamond's book "Guns, Germs and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies"

I show that Diamond is a Marxist idiot (which is redundant) and a multiculturalist pervert (also redundant).

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• Ayn
• Rand
• Objectivism
• education
• Leonard
• Peikoff
• Brandon
• Cropper
• Jared
• Diamond
• Steel
• sociology
• society
• multiculturalism

[newmind1]

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

[socritic]

Any point you might have had was lost when you claimed that the whites were offering freedom and equality to the Native Americans.

[janmn1]

I have watched several of this man's video posts. Most of them are more concerned with the number with of pages in the books he reviews rather than with their content. That and picking on some piece of bad proof reading.

[newmind1]

@jonathanaconway

we are on a comment board on a you tube site there is no way anyone is going to have a meaningful conversation. If you want to come to Austin TX I'll treat you to coffee and you can side with Rands' Objectivism and I'll side with Noam Chomsky, but right now I'll call Atlas shrugged a fantasy because it's fiction. Best of luck on your journey Jonathan.

[jonathanaconway]

@newmind1 * makes me question your position. Actually, its a bit redundant to call Ayn Rand's novel a "fantasy". Of course a novel is a fictional, imaginary account. Whoever uses this statement doesn't understand the purpose of fiction. Why not call Les Miserables or Othello "childish fantasies"? Of course the real meaning is that the philosophy behind the novel doesn't correspond to reality. To which I say, simply observe how many events in the novel have actually occurred in the real world.

[jonathanaconway]

@newmind1 If it's true then why the attackers of Objectivism always seem to rely on smearing, misrepresentation and distortion? If Ayn Rand is fundamentally wrong, why can't they form logical, coherent arguments against her philosophy? Where's the evidence that A is not A, or that consciousness does not possess an identity? Just brashly calling Atlas Shrugged a "childish fantasy" without any further discussion convinces me of nothing and only makes me question yours.

[newmind1]

@jonathanaconway This tired old quote works because it rings with truth.

[jonathanaconway]

@toddmuddywaters Science depends on philosophy. You need metaphysics before you can have physics. If the philosophy is irrational, you'll get irrational 'science', such as many of Freud's junk theories. If 99% of philosophers are rubbish, it doesn't change the fact that their philosophies have very real, even deadly effects of every aspect of human life. Example: Communist Russia, influenced by Marx, influenced by Hegel, influenced by Kant.

[jonathanaconway]

@cisbio Ahh the cultural relativist. Since you consider western civilization to be no better than the Bedouins, how about you throw away your computer and Internet connection and join them?

[jonathanaconway]

@newmind1 You don't do Objectivism any disservice by parroting a tired old quote that simply attacks without making any particular points or identifying any particular errors.

[kathberry8]

...nit-picker...

[cisbio]

Objectivists are proof one can be a 'rational' atheist and a complete prat, simultaneously.

"I'm on the side of civilization every time blah' -that's every time 'his' civilization is destroying another civilization, presumably.