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Can anyone help me distinguish the "argument" of Randall and Holmes from the
ravings of mental patients? It seems much ado about nothing, a way for the
intellectually challenged to pass the day until nurse brings another sedative.

Alternatively, Peikoff, in _Objectivism_, says, "i have presented the ideas of
objectivism, their validation, and their interrelationaships. i have arranged
the idesa hierarchically; each chapter, and within the chapters each section, 
builds on earlier material....I offer not a heap of concretes, polemics, quotes,
and random elaborations, but a progression of essentials....I have ommitted
every nonessentiual that might cause the reader to lose sight of ayn Rand's
system as a whole....Like any proper work of general philosophy, this book is
written not for academics, but for human beings (including any academics who
qualify)....Modernist intellectuals are comparable to a psychopath who murders
for kicks. They seek the thrill of the new; and the new, to them, is the
negative. The new is obliteration, oblitration of the essential in every field;
they have no interest in anything to take its place. Thus the uniqueness of the
century behind us: philososophy gleefully rid of system-building...."

With full regard for the ad hominem fallacy I note Kasanin's _Language and
Thought in Schizophrenia_, in which the  author wonders about the small amount
of reasoning in culture after a brilliant description of symbol associations 
among the insane. Of course, I don't mean to suggest that Zeleny and Randall are
insane (and it would be churlish to suggest otherwise) but the similarity
between their...whatever and Kasanin's hilarious descriptions is...well,
disturbing. Are there any thoughts or even ejaculations on this somber topic?
quotes, and random 


and Thought in Schizophrenia_, wondered about the small amount of reasoning in
culture in general. Here are some causes.
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	"In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit
you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and cer-
tainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe."
                                                              AYN RAND
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Stephen Grossman <PMSC13SG@UMASS.EDU>
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