Nate G writes:
The annoying thing about the objectivist arguements is their rejection of
the notion of subjective reality. This rejection leaves the front door
wide open for phenomona like Hoffer's True Believer. I don't understand
why we are debating the nature of reality .... For the group members who
accept the memetic paradigm the nature of reality may be important to find
the bounds of memetic influence. Loki recently wrote a note asking how
much genetics influenced the choices made within a culture ... only he used
a mathematical notation, but I think thats what the point was. That seemed
like fruitful thread for discussion. I recently rented the movie Larry
Flynt vs. The People. My wife thought the movie was heavy handed in that
it didn't show how really disgusting and offensive Larry was. My point
would be that the constitution exists as a subjective framework for
constructing subjective reality. All you have to do is look at the history
of constitutional law to see that <cultural> REALITY IS SUBJECTIVE OVER
TIME. Two examples: Black men were equal to 3/5 of a white man when
determining representation in the House. This certainly offended the
abolitionists ... but I suspect that abolitionists were held in the same
contempt as tree huggers and vegans are today. Women were not guaranteed
the right to vote until 1920.