Objectivism 2.0

(Introduction)



I have to say first that I was quite much objectivist long time before knowing about Ayn Rand's Objectivism and her wonderful work.
Thus adopting this philosophy was for me more a return, a deepening and an affirmation than a discovery.
But despite this, reading each one of her books was a shocking, beautiful and exciting experience.

By the way perhaps you have noted that in the header of the blog about Ayn Rand and her philosophy I purposely used this word "...beautiful sense of life ever discovered..." it is because while reading "The Virtue of Selfishness" I suddenly realized that her philosophy the Objectivism was always there, in the common sense of our ultra-modern everyday life, or in the ancient savannah where the first tribes of Homo Erectus struggled to survive almost two millons years ago using the most powerful weapon ever created: their minds.

While reading any of the Ayn Rand's writings I constantly wonder why there were no other people capable of putting together all the Objectivism's truths as brilliantly as she did...
Perhaps the answer is that she suffered the oppression of the Russian's socialism and mysticism in her own flesh before escaping to USA, or perhaps this little, almost fragile woman, was more brave, intelligent and intellectually honest than virtually any man before.

While other philosophies are more close to "invents" (some of them really weird and even awful), Objectivism is a simple, enlightening magnificent discovery.

The modification in the color of the Atlas Shrugged's picture above symbolizes the evolution, the only constant: the change.
The Ying-Yang's border icon represents other concepts which I will talk later about, like the theory of conflict, the cycles of the processes, the importance of the frontiers, the exceptions and the rules, the quantity vs. quality in the philosophy and life, the tools of intuition, emotions and feelings, the Gods and religions, etc.
Those other concepts eventually complement, expand and enhance the original Ran'd vision of the Objectivism, without getting in contradiction with its basic principles.

This blog will be also eventually dedicated to talk about other Objectivism related experiences, art, etc. like the Canadian group of music Rush by example.