Hey everybody and welcome to classical stuff you should know.

If you are new here, it's a podcast about classical things.

We talk about books. We talk about philosophy. We talk about art and things. Sometimes we talk about

ourselves. And those selves that we are talking about, one of them is A.J. Hannanburg. That's me. We're also here with Thomas Magby. Hello. That's me. And Graham Donaldson. I am talking about myself. Talking about ourselves. We're all from different parts of the country originally. This is true. Graham Donaldson, part of a different country.

There you go. It's Canadian initially.

And now we all live down here in sunny Austin, Texas, which is currently frigid.

It's very cold here.

But yeah, so glad you guys are here. Capitalism. It's important. Do you have a take on that, Graham?

Do I have a take? Well, some people have takes on it.

This is kind of a part two of Atlas Shrugged.

Even though when we did the part one, it wasn't really on Atlas Shrugged.

It was on a little bit of Ayn or Anne or how everyone pronounce her name, Rands' philosophical position of objectivism.

And I've been kind of kicking around in my mind why it's called objectivism. Is it because, maybe you can correct me on this, is it called objectivism

because she says, the world is a place that is there and we all perceive it and you got to deal

with it and what are you going to do about it? Like, is that kind of why it's called objectivism?

I have no idea.

Okay.

I'm looking up on the Wikipedia page right now.

I'll let you know.

Because that was a key part of her philosophy.

And you can go back and you can listen to the first.

Can I read you?

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