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CredoSOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists.
Welcome to the web site for SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists. SOLO was set up - to invoke George Walsh's famous remark when he helped David Kelley launch the Institute for Objectivist Studies - for those who consider themselves "homeless Objectivists" still. It’s for those who, after 15 years of IOS/TOC, want an alternative to barking-mad dogmatism other than timid, somnambulist ecumenism. SOLO seeks to galvanise all Objectivists who recognise that Objectivism is a tool for living, and who repudiate any reason/passion dichotomy. We seek to be a magnet and a home for those who are exuberantly rational and rationally exuberant, who aspire to the "total passion for the total height," intellectually and emotionally, simultaneously and harmoniously. We aspire to a culture of sincerity & integrity; where mind-games, deceit and posturing - and having to read between the lines - in one's dealings with others, are a thing of the past; where Shakespeare's "This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. ..." is second nature. SOLO is for those who want reason and logic to be liberated from the Mr. Spock straitjacket and impregnated with KASS — the "kick-ass" factor. We see ourselves most emphatically as being at war with the current culture: the culture of anti-heroes, nihilism, destruction and dishonesty (hence a significant, though by no means exclusive, focus on esthetics here). Yet we acknowledge that Objectivism's critics can be honest, and should be granted more than a perfunctory discussion or two before being dismissed out of hand. We acknowledge that Ayn Rand made mistakes; that she didn’t answer every question that can be asked; that she was wrong about some matters of considerable existential moment, such as homosexuality (which matter we have already addressed). But we salute her as an epoch-changing giant — comparable to Aristotle - whose mistakes were of little moment when compared to her unprecedented insights (just as his mistakes were of little moment). We want to help Ayn Rand's philosophy, Objectivism, become the living, breathing, growing, vibrant, reality-orientated, life-affirming phenomenon that it really is, when unsullied by barking-mad dogmatists. We want to plant another flower in the garden - fiercely, radiantly, rationally colourful - that will ultimately tower over all others. We seek nothing less than to change the world. Lindsay Perigo Founder and Principal PS "SOLO kicks ass first, then takes names. Then it kicks ass again." Perigo at TOC-Vancouver, 2004. PPS - "The world isn't going to conquer itself."
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