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 RoR in Florida at Merritt IslandSaturday, June 17, 2006, 6:00 PM Tonight's meeting seeks to fill the mental needs of participants for useful knowledge. Ayn Rand examined the New Left at the height of its hysteria when she wrote The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution. Peter Schwartz updated the second edition with a new title: Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution. Learn to use this information to unify the spirit, emotions, mind and body of your authentic Self. As usual, we will have dinner at Applebee's following the discussion. When: Saturday, June 17, 2006, 6:00 PM Where: Barnes and Noble Booksellers, 780 E Merritt Island Cswy, Merritt Island, FL 32952, (321) 453-8202 Shared Inquiry Questions for in Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution Interpretive Questions 1. Why did Ayn Rand assign this title to this essay? 2. Summarize the content of the Time article that Ayn Rand analyzes in this essay. 3. Contrast the view of the Time article and that of Ayn Rand regarding the nature of the "historical era of transition [between] the Middle Ages and ... the Renaissance." 4. What forms of "pollution" that the Time article identifies does Ayn Rand decry as a sign of "anti-technology ... crusaders"? 5. Contrast the views of Old Leftists, Objectivists and New Leftists regarding reason, science, technology, industry, and capitalism. Evaluative Questions 1. Do you share Ayn Rand's denigration of "natural beauty" as inferior to "shopping centers, expressways and family cars"? 2. Do you agree with Ayn Rand's assessment of "leftist-liberals" as expressing a "lust to destroy"? 3. Do you agree with Ayn Rand's argument that articles like that in Time will drive readers who disagree to an "indifference to ideas [that] will be ... ultimately turned into mental atrophy"? 4. Do you share Ayn Rand's view of the enemy as "exponents of middle-of-the-road respectability who [say that] ideas ... do not matter and that the Attilas do not mean it"? 5. In what ways did this essay influence your values? | ||||
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