Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Roderick T. Long. So I’m going to respond to both Roderick and Chris here, hopefully without writing a counter-Manifesto to Ro Mo. To get one thing out of the way: I put both The Art of Fiction and The Art of Non-Fiction in a differe…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Roderick: which video are you referring to? LikeLike

In reply to merjet. That might work, if I could bring myself to believe that Ayn Rand had ever read Huckleberry Finn. LikeLike

I offer another possibility. Maybe Ayn Rand meant to write “huck” instead of “hulk.” After all, Huck Finn was “idle, and lawless, and vulgar, and bad.” Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckleberry_Finn. He was a…

Paradoxically, I can’t fall back asleep because I’ve got “Cocaine” in my head. The song, I mean. LikeLike

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Just woke up from a dream in which I was disrecommending the work of Eric Clapton to my next door neighbor, Eric Clapton—who was mowing his lawn with a silent lawnmower. More when I’m really awake, and slightly more cogent…

In reply to cmsciabarra. As I said in the same aforementioned video: as a general rule, her reasons for liking the works she likes are more compelling than her reasons for disliking the works she dislikes. I’ve usually been grateful for her art…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. He’s also a graduate of Auburn! LikeLike

Ahem. The Dialectical One Has Arrived. ? Forget those college transcripts… how about focusing instead on those rough sex scenes in her novels? I think she probably meant “hunks” after all. She would have DEFINITELY bemoaned naturalism…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Of course the final stages of that etymological transition were facilitated by the comic-book Hulk (1962), who followed in the massive lumbering footsteps of vaguely similar comic-book characters named the Heap (1942) and the…