Do Americans Have an Irrational, Religious Obsession With Work?

[@javiermancillavera3072]

This topic is paramount. When I read The Fountainhead almost ten years ago during my final years of college, my perspective and motivation toward work changed completely. I used to be the kind of person who saw work as a burdensome duty, constantly dreaming of traveling to escape it. However, after discovering the story of Howard Roark, I was inspired to align my life with his principles and approach to work. However, there’s another important topic to consider: how to discover your passion. And I believe I’m stuck in that quest.

Don't worry if you are a want to be Howard Roark you will never have a true friend and die alone, Rand did.

[@TeaParty1776]

Objectivist psychologists, Gina Gorlin and Jean Moroney, specialize in work. Alex Epstein ,another Objectivist, has practical work advice in his Human Development Project

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In AS, many RR engineers volunteered to drive the John Galt Line train because they respected the work.

[@RayceJacobson]

There's an old saying: "There are no lousy jobs, only lousy employees."

[@Brian17-l4i]

Yeah there are also lots of lousy employers too!

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Heroism Of Productive Work-Robert Tracinski; ex-Objectivist?; editor of American Republic and Intellectual Activist.

[@TeaParty1776]

Rand says work connects man to reality and provides a meaning to his days

I'll bet neither you or Rand did a hard days back breaking work in your lives.

[@TeaParty1776]

Rands ideas are true and her opponents iddeas are false.

@@TeaParty1776 Well that's a bit of a cliche. Try and be a bit more original.

How the hell would Rand no about work she never did a honest days work in her life.

[@TeaParty1776]

Focus your mind!

[@sdrc92126]

What is irrational about it?

[@TeaParty1776]

which post?

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@@TeaParty1776 "Irrational, Religious Obsession With Work" the title of the video

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@@sdrc92126 OK, your point?

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@@TeaParty1776 It seems rational to me

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@@sdrc92126 Which view?

[@TeaParty1776]

"...do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?" -Jesus, Sermon On The Mount The use of reason, according to Rousseau, results in our domination and exploitation of nature, selfishness, competitiveness, vanity, social stratification, oppression, and relationships based not on compassion, but on power. -Univ Georgia

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The fatigue of thinking...,to be as irresponsible as I please -Rousseau

All very interesting but if you are a Christian why are you defending Atheist Rand. Well cheers for Rousseau, . I prefer reasoning my own reasons

@@TeaParty1776 Rousseau should have gone to bed earlier

@@TeaParty1776 Have you noticed the guy on the left looks exactly like the daughter in Grant Wood American Gothic?

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that sounds like agood joke what do you mean

[@rayschram3399]

Valve just dropped the Half Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary.

[@hookem3768]

Test

53.25 of total toss. Overwhelmingly people work to earn money, people need money to survive. I suspect most working people neither love or hate their jobs, work is just work., like or not like has nothing to do with it.

[@TeaParty1776]

You may be right. Thus we need a new morality for guidance to a happy life. See _The Fountainhead_ by Ayn Rand for a man who loves his work and another who despises his.

@@TeaParty1776 There is no "maybe" about it. There are plenty of people who are lucky enough to like or even love the job they do but that doesn't mean they would do the job without pay. I've like the jobs I've done, but moved on if I found a better position. Except in the mind Ayn Rand Howard Roark never existed,. Rand's imagination controlled the horizontal. she will controlled the vertical of Howard, .nothing more nothing less. I know enough of Rand's opinions and theories to know not to waste my time reading the book. Many years ago I did watch the film. I can't remember that much of it, very boring, I do remember the ending were Howard, full of hormonal lust to be with Patricia Neal, gets into a workman's lift and is slowly carried up the side of the tower block. The camera slowly pulls back as it does we get to see the ever growing tower, up, up, up it goes the shot widening until we see the now dwarf city below. Finally the lift arrives at the top of the building the lovers embrace the camera pulls away from the pair (modesty prevails) we see Rand's idea of a beautiful building. What we get is a bloody great ugly concrete erected penis totally out of proportion with it's surrounding. Two month later the City authorities had so many complaints from the cities residence the forced the make believe Howard to knock Howard's (Rand's) monstrosity down. Howard and Patricia leap of the top of, in life, two ft tall model everybody cheers. Your turn

[@hookem3768]

Go home, you're drunk

[@TeaParty1776]

> There are plenty of people who are lucky enough to like or even love the job they do but that doesn't mean they would do the job without pay. You evade people who successfully plan their future of happy paid work. > Except in the mind Ayn Rand Howard Roark never existed,. You evade people who successfully plan their future of happy paid work. >I know enough of Rand's opinions and theories to know not to waste my time reading the book. Know w/o reading her book? Crystal ball? Divine revelation? LSD? You fell on your head? Inquiring minds want to know... > Howard, full of hormonal lust to be with Patricia Neal, Chosen values cause emotion. Human SEX is HUMAN sex. The religious mind/body split is false. Are you posting from the Christian Dark Ages? >What we get is a bloody great ugly concrete erected penis totally out of proportion with it's surrounding. Tell us about your rational esthetics and your moral cowardice in sacrificing your self-respect to people w/o self-respect. Rands villain, Toohey, has exactly your moral praise of self-contempt. > Howard and Patricia leap of the top of, in life, two ft tall model everybody cheers. Your life-hating, death-worshipping nihilism is noted.

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Your nihilist hatred of man, mind ,mental effort, reality and self-esteem is noted. Is your context Christianity or Nazism?

[@DerykRobosson]

The vocation in which I choose to work is fueled by my passion for what I do because I value myself. The thinking on religion is too narrow. Religion is anything that binds. The laws of nature is a religion. Existence is a religion. Reality is a religion.

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Youre a ham sandwich

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Religion is a rationalization of faith. Your defs are arbitrary.

@@TeaParty1776 If faith can be rationalised in the same way Atheism can be rationalised then we would all be tipping out arses 4 times a day bowing to Mecca,

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Rational atheism doesnt need rationalization. Some atheism is not rational.

What part of Atheism is not rational? "The laws of nature is a religion. Existence is a religion. Reality is a religion." What pill are you taking? Whatever it is stop taking it.

This is NOT a spontaneous conversion but a carefully scripted exercise in polished waffle. Question: Do American's "have a religious obsession with work"? Answer:-NO. Do to many Americans have a religious obsession with religion? Answer :-YES. Question: Did Rand ever produce work that was based purely on “reason, logic and fact” that can empirically provable, example 2+2=4, and not simply based on her own biased, hate-filled subjective opinions? Answer:-NO. She never made a "objective" statement in her rather sad and miserable life.

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Evidence?

@@TeaParty1776 Listen with your ears, look with your eyes. Every question was prepared Every answer was already known Btw The work life balance they are waffling on about is hardly original. I know this much when it comes to work life balance and living in civilised society the Scandinavian Nations have got the US still in a cave.

[@hookem3768]

When did they say the words "work-life balance?"

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Evidence?

@@hookem3768 If they were not taking about the work life balance what exactly were they waffling about, you tell me.