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Mind: "Racism" and "Global Balkanization"

Mind: "Racism" and "Global Balkanization"RoR in Florida at Merritt Island
Saturday, August 19, 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, August 19, 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 "Racism" and "Global Balkanization" in Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

Interpretive Questions

1.      Why did Ayn Rand assign this title to each essay?
2.      What makes racism evil?
3.      What makes ethnicity similar to racism?
4.      In what ways does ethnicity qualify as an anti-concept?
5.      Discuss the relationships between racism, ethnicity, tribalism and the concrete-bound mentality.

Evaluative Questions

1.      Do you agree with Ayn Rand that ethnicity simply offers a different name for racism plus tradition?
2.      Do you agree with Ayn Rand that an obsession with race and ethnicity reflects a tribal mentality?
3.      In what ways did each essay influence your values?

Added by Luke Setzer
on 8/06, 10:50am

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