I'll just say this: If you never try to understand the other point of view, you're sure to never be effective in working with them. Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
It's also, at least in my view, a pretty bad book on narrative terms. Rand is about as subtle as a sledgehammer with her philosophy, and it just gets in the way of the story. I have read and enjoyed books that espouse views with which I disagree, but the theme should always be an organic outgrowth of a compelling story. The Fountainhead always puts its storytelling second to its merciless bellow that we should be thankful there are rich and powerful people to keep the world moving forward. It's distracting, and it gets tiresome real fast.
Are conservatives the new liberals? It's been a little shocking in the last decade to see liberals calling for suppression of free speech, and openly mocking their working-class inferiors. Meanwhile, it has been conservatives who are more often than not calling for an open expressions of ideas and for sympathy towards the working class. (I'm talking about the intellectual world here, not Trump).
Although this might just be a reaction to my living in Seattle where I'm pretty sure the last Republican died sometime in the 1990s.
Funny how it's always people defending turgid and irrelevant 'thinkers' like Ayn Rand or Jordan Peterson who say this. Nobody is obligated to read a 1,000 page screed, just as you're not obliged to wade through Das Kapital to have an opinion on communism.
There are actual libertarian philosophers who are worth reading, like Robert Nozick, but for some reason people fixate on Rand - I suspect because her writing isn't intellectually demanding (owing chiefly to a lack of any intelligent ideas).
We can all challenge ourselves to aim a little higher in our reading.
It's amusing that someone would call Ayn Rand irrelevant (turgid, maybe), but ridiculous that same person would call Jordan Peterson irrelevant. Whether you like him or not, Peterson is completely relevant, selling millions of copies of his books and packing audiences worldwide. Many people who don't like him, in my experience, get all their (very biased) information about him via Buzzfeed.
Fun Fact: after a lifetime of denigrating people who relied on Social Security and Medicare, when she needed them she took both. Rand was a bad writer AND a hypocrite.
Great if you're a self-absorbed high schooler, I guess. As you get older, you realize that everyone makes huge sacrifices, and stop worshipping the lucky (ie the rich)
In America, the vast majority of millionaires are self-made. While everyone's wealth is partially dependent on their upbringing, their connections, and society at large, it is simply not true that most rich people inherit their money. I'd highly recommend reading The Millionaire Next Door which is an eye-opening examination of how most rich people got that way. Hint: Doctors, lawyers, and small business people are the vast majority. Try telling a millionaire plumber (and there are many) that they didn't earn their money. She might knock you over the head with her wrench.
Well leftist thought goes deeper than that and I don't think in Europe concentrates so much on inheritance. Maybe inherited connections. Like why are some professions valued so much compared to others. Why does a CEO get a bonus when fired and others can't take a sick leave etc. Thanks for suggestion.
"Millionnaires" is a pretty diverse and thus rather useless category nowadays. A house can easily be worth a million dollars, and it is true that some people achieve that through hard work, but if you own a house that's worth a million and not a lot else, you're a lot closer to the middle class than you are to the actually very rich. What percentage of hundred millionnaires are "self-made"? What percentage of billionnaires (including the apparently very "self-made" Kylie Jenner)? If you inherit a million and end up with a billion, are you "self-made"? I think what's more to the point is that even if you actually start from nothing and end up very rich, nobody does it alone. You're still a product of your upbringing, the system in which you live, the opportunities afforded you by education, infrastructure such as roads and security, inventors and innovators that came before you, and the people who work for you and whose work generates your profits.
What percentage of billionaires are self-made? A very high percentage. I just looked at a list of the 20 richest people in the world. 17/20 were self-made. But also very few of them grew up truly poor.
Of course talent, drive and ambition play a role, but I would argue that that role is immensely exaggerated, and for a reason: because it allows those with talent, drive, and ambition, to accaparate absolutely insane sums of money, while others, who are not that different from them, live in abject poverty.
When you run a search for "The Road Less Taken" you get a couple of articles and a whole bunch that default to "... Not Taken;" per a search, "The Road Not Taken" first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in August 1915.
But the questions asks which road Frost *took that made all the difference,* not what the name of the poem is. The line is "I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." He doesn't take the road not taken. That's why it's...the road not taken.
What's more, the distinction is crucial with this poem because, despite what 90% of people seem to believe, the poem is not about being yourself, but is about resigning yourself to the reality that there are no second chances, and that every decision you make can radically alter the course of your life. It's called "The Road Not Taken" because it's a reflection on choices made and paths not taken, and how they affect every step you take afterward. If you treat the road less traveled (which the speaker takes) and the road not taken (which the speaker doesn't take...obviously) as the same, the poem loses all meaning.
Most famous and very famous is not the same, at all.
the most famous song of my neighbour would only be known by a few, her direct family and a handfull of people that went to see her perform and can actually stand it (I sometimes flee the house, when my headphones aren't enough to block it out, it sounds like alternating of a cat being murdered and someone trying to make glass burst).
She must have a most popular song but only a few would know it.,
I tried at least five different variatons of "Sobotta's Atlas", "Sobotta Atlas", "Sobotta Anatomy Atlas", etc. Never knew that Gray's Anatomy was anything other than a TV show.
I tried Ibn Sina's "Canon of Medicine" first... although that probably isn't strictly speaking about anatomy and nor would it be the most familiar to modern audiences, I suppose.
I'm not as well informed as most people here, but I've been aware of Gray's (though I thought it was "Grey's") Anatomy. My daughter's an RN and she's married to Dr. Ding-Dong, so maybe that's it.
Any creativity that allows one to express themselves, whether using the medium of food, stage or paint, yes even spray paints is in fact art. Whether is a legally allowed in the place that the art is created is irrelevant...it's still art. And street art can be some of the most creative art I've seen, and as someone who loves to create things through art, I know that I am NOT talented enough to create something nearly as intricate as what graffiti artists can produce. Respect
Athens has also hosted the games 3 ties (there was a special one hosted there in 1906 to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the first modern Olympic games, on top of 1894, and 2004)
You should allow more for the Robert Frost one, I tried less trodden, less chosen and less taken and didn’t get it it’s difficult to remember it exactly
Is "Gray's Anatomy" really that famous? Outside the English-speaking world, the book is hardly known (though there seems to be a TV series with a similar name).
I had never heard of it either and only vaguely aware that there is a tv show called that. I know it is about doctors, that's it. Only recently found out it was named after the book, very likely from this website. (only place I am on the internet for nowadays, and subsequently sometimes finding out more about a subject)
I don't dispute allowing it - it was the answer I gave - but surely 'The Road Not Taken' must be the most incorrect type-in on Jetpunk? Made me laugh anyway.
Because if Robert Frost took 'The Road Not Taken', then it wouldn't really be 'The Road Not Taken', would it? (As I say, I'm not disputing it being allowed, just thought it was quite funny).
No need to change the question. But the location the writer(s) of Exodus meant by 'Yam Suph', the body of water crossed by Moses, is not certain. The identification with the Red Sea is only traditional.
It's a little clearer with the spelling Aleksander, which is another transliteration of the name. Get rid of everything except the stressed syllable ("sa") and add "sha," which is a diminutive suffix in Russian. Voilà, Sasha. Speaking of which, Quizmaster please add "Aleksander" as an accepted type-in :)
I read the Iran question as Iraq, and I was confused that Iran wasn't working as an answer... I eventually tried Oman, which got me another answer lol, but never realised my original mix-up!..
Although this might just be a reaction to my living in Seattle where I'm pretty sure the last Republican died sometime in the 1990s.
There are actual libertarian philosophers who are worth reading, like Robert Nozick, but for some reason people fixate on Rand - I suspect because her writing isn't intellectually demanding (owing chiefly to a lack of any intelligent ideas).
We can all challenge ourselves to aim a little higher in our reading.
What's more, the distinction is crucial with this poem because, despite what 90% of people seem to believe, the poem is not about being yourself, but is about resigning yourself to the reality that there are no second chances, and that every decision you make can radically alter the course of your life. It's called "The Road Not Taken" because it's a reflection on choices made and paths not taken, and how they affect every step you take afterward. If you treat the road less traveled (which the speaker takes) and the road not taken (which the speaker doesn't take...obviously) as the same, the poem loses all meaning.
the most famous song of my neighbour would only be known by a few, her direct family and a handfull of people that went to see her perform and can actually stand it (I sometimes flee the house, when my headphones aren't enough to block it out, it sounds like alternating of a cat being murdered and someone trying to make glass burst).
She must have a most popular song but only a few would know it.,
A better answer for Banksy would be stencilwork, or change the question
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