In the frontiers

(Being alive)



First than nothing please let me define myself: I am a frontier man
What the hell does that mean?
Well... basically that I am rarely settled down on the "center" of an idea, concept, lifestyle, etc. because I am convinced that in the "frontiers" is where the conflict and action happen. And I regard conflict as source and maintenance-energy of life.

As the poet said:

"...This way we travel
in the frontier between the past an the future
between what we are and what we can be
between what we have and what we lack
surfing life over the waves of time
sometimes turbulent, sometimes calm.
Always in the frontiers..."

The concept of the frontier I am trying to explain here is different from the grayness of "the middle of the road" which usually means trying to compromise two positions, ideas or concepts trying to democratically mixing parts of both and usually leading to nothing but confusion and ineffectiveness.
The concept of frontier instead means that you are still on one side of the road but close enough to the other side in order to understand more deeply what the other position really means and where it comes from

What bout the frontiers of Objectivism?
I would say that people on "the center" of this philosophy could be called Orthodox Objectivists and are in Leonard Peikof's thought line and similar, on the other hand different other people are trying at the same time to go closer to the frontiers, sometimes unexplored frontiers waiting to be expanded, because Ayn Rand never really put together an extensive account of all her new philosophy covering every aspect of reality, present and future. probably an impossible task for just one person no matter how brilliant because in the end any philosophy or intellectual movement is something "alive" that should adapt and grow according to the progress of the civilization

On the other hand being "orthodox" in Objectivism is some kind of contradiction because it is a philosophy that encourages independence in though and critical individualist analysis even when Ayn Rand herself would probably had not approved most of Neo Objectivist approaches whatever this loose term means

So my the question is:
Should we take further Objectivism into new frontiers?
Or should Objectivism remain frozen around only the concepts and essays already given by Ayn Rand?

Since I already said that I am a "Frontier Man" for me the answer is clear...