Ayn Rand the Sociologist

[Carmen Clark]

On Mar 19, 2011, at 12:40 PM, David McDivitt wrote:

> The appearance of authority is always enticing to those who
> seek authority, but there is none except what we make up ourselves.


This is a very important idea, IMO, and troubling to a "realist" or  
"objectivist," it would seem.

The last part "but there is none..." I assume to mean, "but there is  
no authority except what we imagine or assign/concede to others from  
within ourselves."


-c

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin