← Back to context Comment by api 10 hours ago Rationalism and EA is Scientology for the Bay Area. 2 comments api Reply cmrdporcupine 5 hours ago It's just the 2020s version of Ayn Rand's "Objectivism." Distillation of exploitative personality traits covered over in sophistry and philosophical excuses. Lets people be dickheads and be smugly superior about it at the same time. Sabinus 3 hours ago Creating elaborate ideologies so people can justify their actions with "I'm doing this for you and us all and/or the greater good", is as old as time.
cmrdporcupine 5 hours ago It's just the 2020s version of Ayn Rand's "Objectivism." Distillation of exploitative personality traits covered over in sophistry and philosophical excuses. Lets people be dickheads and be smugly superior about it at the same time. Sabinus 3 hours ago Creating elaborate ideologies so people can justify their actions with "I'm doing this for you and us all and/or the greater good", is as old as time.
Sabinus 3 hours ago Creating elaborate ideologies so people can justify their actions with "I'm doing this for you and us all and/or the greater good", is as old as time.
It's just the 2020s version of Ayn Rand's "Objectivism." Distillation of exploitative personality traits covered over in sophistry and philosophical excuses. Lets people be dickheads and be smugly superior about it at the same time.
Creating elaborate ideologies so people can justify their actions with "I'm doing this for you and us all and/or the greater good", is as old as time.