Vladimir_M comments on George Orwell's Prelude on Politics Is The Mind Killer - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_M 31 March 2012 01:34:36AM *  7 points [-]

I didn't downvote you, but my guess is that your comment came off as an attempt to push Randianism, or perhaps some other closely related ideology. I'm pretty sure that wasn't your intention, but the problem is that many such people are highly active on the internet, and "collectivism" happens to be a word that they use incessantly and which is not very common otherwise.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 01 April 2012 07:31:50AM 6 points [-]

So they were engaging in exactly the kind of nationalism Orwell describes. How fitting.

Comment author: Emile 01 April 2012 09:16:36PM 0 points [-]

...so would you say "collectivism" is a good term for describing them?