tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post1898692669108232006..comments2024-03-28T20:19:16.805-04:00Comments on Vicki Lane Mysteries: Shopping Buggy Corrals Make Me Think of KantVicki Lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08114677510459055768noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-77689007391690773422019-09-07T05:32:27.185-04:002019-09-07T05:32:27.185-04:00I don't have too many pet peeves (can you by d...I don't have too many pet peeves (can you by definition have more than one?) but this is one of them. I seem to feel obliged to straighten the coral out at least a little bit almost every time.Anvilcloudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07974744042579564912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-12447962439268357772019-09-05T15:57:15.227-04:002019-09-05T15:57:15.227-04:00Thanks for this thoughtful response, Anonymous (Al...Thanks for this thoughtful response, Anonymous (Alaine?) As I said, it's been a long, long time since I read AS and I certainly am not qualified to argue your points. Vicki Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08114677510459055768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-86630289867017850102019-09-05T15:34:00.287-04:002019-09-05T15:34:00.287-04:00The current administration doesn't at all refl...The current administration doesn't at all reflect the principles of Objectivism, and neither does an errant shopping cart. The compassion in Atlas Shrugged is in Dagny's treatment of Cheryl, in Rearden's treatment of the Wet Nurse--there are more examples. Why do I see those things and you don't? Our culture provides us with a set of thought boxes in which to categorize things. Your teacher transmitted those to you, but the set you're using led you to misconstrue Rand's ideas. The categories you learned are our culture's accepted conceptualizion of the world. One of Rand's most important ideas is that there is a basis in reality for standards of right and wrong in conceptualization. You can do it wrong, and if you do, you won't understand the world as well as you might. To double-check your understanding of Atlas Shrugged, consider re-reading it with the guidance of the "Atlas Project". That's a series of seminars on chapters of the novel, which can be found at the Ayn Rand Institute channel on Youtube.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-6262115869598595662019-09-05T09:45:01.798-04:002019-09-05T09:45:01.798-04:00Brings to mind just how easily our college minds c...Brings to mind just how easily our college minds can be molded. We thought we were so smart and had great insight into solving the problems of the world. We thought college really enlightened us. I still remember the remarks on my first English paper, comparing high school class to large college lecture rooms. I thought it was great and the professor wrote, "It might be well to keep in mind that a college classroom is not a Y-teen meeting. Your theory is as full of holes as a prize swiss cheese."NCmountainwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00615765649828716560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-65153316257578731802019-09-05T09:30:38.226-04:002019-09-05T09:30:38.226-04:00Whenever I put my shopping cart in the corral, I s...Whenever I put my shopping cart in the corral, I straighten out all of them, in the two separate sizes. It's just my way of ending a bit of the chaos in the world.<br />Deana the QueenaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com