Guiltless Pleasures: How to Consume Like an Egoist

[@JacobGrahamFit]

Six Pillars of Self Esteem and the idea of "living consciously" gave me a lot of clarity on rational consumption!

[@holynightofserenitea]

Glad to see some gen zers interested in her works 💪💪💪

Did it do anything for your humanity, altruism (in its correct dictionary meaning), sympathy, compassion, decency? If not try finding another creed to follow .

[@holynightofserenitea]

How can I have sympathy for a non-individual person?

@@holynightofserenitea Can I ask you to explain what a "non-individual person" is?

[@holynightofserenitea]

Can I ask you to explain what humanity is?

[@midasderrek]

I loved this discussion

[@drixcel2741]

Great episode and much appreciated news about the new app!

[@JacobGrahamFit]

Crushed this

[@kdemetter]

I guess it depends what is meant by it. I always understaood consumerism ( as opposed to consumption) as being consumption for the sake of consumption. As in, short term gratification, just getting the newest thing you don't need. The problem isn't the consumption. It's that we reach for short term consumption to try to fix something long term. We are in a crisis and should do some long term thinking, but instead we buy junk food just to feel better. As with everything, it requires careful thinking. But that's no different from production. Just as you can waste your hard earned money on something you don't need or even harmful to you, can waste your productive energy on something that doesn't benefit you and actually causes you harm. And a lot of people tend to do both.

[@TeaParty1776]

You can always nail yourself to cross to avoid temptation

[@TeaParty1776]

Consumerism is a Leftist rationalization of their evasion of production. Its based in the death-worshipping, Christian hatred of the world. It's a demand to stop valuing your self.

@@TeaParty1776 You can also grow up and fined the balance between, fate willing, having enough to achieve a stable, secure happy life and being like Ayn Rand a totally selfish waste of space no true friends and dying alone and unloved

@@TeaParty1776 "Consumerism is a Leftist rationalization of their evasion of production.? Does that actually mean anything? For a peace loving, turn the other cheek, love thy neighbour Christian you have a lot of hate in you? Are you sure you're not hating to much? Don't forget Rand was about has big an Atheist as you can find, yet you are one of her biggest supports? You don't think very much do you??

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

I'm guessing eating 5 bags of doritoes then gooning for 5 hours isn't the way to do it

[@pizzaman-fx3xx]

The question is who will stop me!!!

[@strickdaddy3912]

@@pizzaman-fx3xx based

[@TeaParty1776]

I thought I was hip but I dont know gooning, unless you mean the recent election. Is gooning private or is public gooning acceptable?

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

@@TeaParty1776 It means to masturbate for a very, very long time

[@johngleue]

​@@TeaParty1776 It's nasty

[@TeaParty1776]

I will buy a Ferrari and consume it in 5th gear.

Presumably with a census taker's liver "with some fava beans and a nice Chianti" ?

The Arch Bishop of Canterbury 6 centuries BEFORE Christ? LOL.

[@holynightofserenitea]

Kinoko Nasu is gonna create a new Romanticist movement and y'all are still smudging around with the Enlightenment, that era is dead. Romantic literature will be back with this fragment, Rand will live on through art not conservation of her era.

[@holynightofserenitea]

Not to mention it is literally the CCP, with Honkai Star Rail, that made an art piece recognizing Rand, maybe your institute could look to something admission able soon. Where is minds like her in the world?

[@TeaParty1776]

@@holynightofserenitea >art piece recognizing Rand Evidence?!

[@holynightofserenitea]

@@TeaParty1776 search alisa rand honkai star rail

Here we go again. Ayn Rand wrote several books about her very subjective unworkable theories. Among the is Atlas Shrugged a 1400 page novel in which Rand elucidates her unworkable nonsense It can be found on the top 10 list of books people start to read but never finish If a writer needs to write 1400 page book to explain there theory then something wrong with the theory. If the reader can actually finish reading the book there's something wrong with the reader. Hitler managed to write Mein Kampf 720 pages Carl Marx and Engels between them took 23 pages to write the der kommunistischen Partei Mao's Little Red Book, 168 pages. To any students who might read this use your money on something more lasting and worth while (you're growing up use your own imagination. Anybody over 25 who's interested in Rand, no problem you deserve to be taken.

[@wayneroth8855]

I read it three times. Each time it got more and more impressive. The more you understand the underlying philosophy of Objectivism, the more you appreciate what an extraordinary novel it is. e.g. One example. People complain that her characters seem like stick figures, not real people. That is by design. Her style is not to represent "real" people. Each character represents a certain type of idea in undiluted form. Once you understand this, you analyze what you are reading differently. Galt's 64 page speech was phenomenal. But you have to understand her philosophy and the historical preceding philosophies to understand her critique. I am curious. What issues about her philosophy are "unworkable nonsense?"

@@wayneroth8855 Before I answer a quick question. Give me a very brief Example what is the relationship between the relatively few wealthy and powerful and the much larger basic worker and unable . Is there so a thing has noblesse oblige. In answer to your :- "What issues about her philosophy are "unworkable nonsense?" Very simple her nonsense would not work in practice. We know what happens to societies that become so stratified that a rich powerful elite control the poverty riddled masses. By coincidence yesterday I noticed that on YT their is a 1927 silent movie called Metropolis fully restored I spent some time today watching it It should tell you why the flawed theories of back brains like Rand always fail.

@@wayneroth8855 The mediator between head and hands must be the heart

@@wayneroth8855 If her style was not to represent people then all she was doing was creating a totally subjective world without a objective emqerically provable segment in it. The world of Rand may or might not come into existence . Her vision would bring about the end of universal suffrage, government of the people by the people for the people would be consigned to the dustbin of history. It would be replaced by an small put powerful oligarchy who while living in unimagined wealth control everybody's life. It is this self-appointed, self-perpetuating Elite ""would control transmission, alter the volume. make it softer, tune it to a whisper. control the horizontal. control the vertical. roll the image, change the focus, sharpen it to crystal clarity.*" *with apologise to the Outer Limits If such a flawed creed were to happen 1984 would be a panic for the suffering masses compared to the hell her nonsense would create

[@TeaParty1776]

Mans focused mind is his basic method of survival. Your comment rationalizes death-worship