Question: Is it possible that The Altruist Society finally grew some cajones and fired their pet Bulldog--Otto—for his gushing endorsement of Bible-thumping Sarah the Impaler and her running mate, John (“America is great for her sacrifices”) Mc Pain?
Answer: Probably too much to hope for. An organization that pretends to be Objectivist but endorses Christian “Just War Theory” and GW’s wanton sacrifice of 4000 innocent American soldiers in an altruistic crusade (the so-called Iraq “war”) has no fundamental principles, and is unlikely to be motivated by anything but pragmatism—i.e., their (well-deserved) financial troubles. Their slick, crypto-libertarian magazine (The New Individualist, previously edited by the pooch himself) had to drastically curtail its publishing schedule, and that’s probably a key reason underlying the split.
What a crying shame. This subjectivist goofball has such a pathetic, dim, garbled grasp of Ayn Rand and her philosophy. He and the unprincipled, dissipated Altruist Society were a match made in nether-nether land. But the good news is that, without TAS as a platform, Bulldog Otto will do much less damage to the long-range success of Objectivism.
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