To: Maurice Winn who wrote (95995 ) 10/28/2012 12:32:04 PM From: Robin Plunder Respond to That was actually Peikoff speaking for Ayn Rand...but she would agree with his statement..accordance with your consciousness , and nothing else; that whatever is in your consciousness must happen, no matter who tries to stop it; and whatever is not in your consciousness cannot happen.” Even if we are trying to deceive nobody but ourselves – often that is the fellow we are trying to deceive – we cannot do it . We cannot keep anything for which we do not have the consciousness.” All facts are interconnected. Thus the first step of faking, like a man’s first act of evasion, leads to the next; neither practice can be contained . Ultimately the dishonest individual comes into conflict not merely with an isolated datum, but with the realm of existence as such. His policy commits him to the invention of a competitor to existence, a growing world of unreality, like a supernatural dimension that clashes at every point with the actual world. The latter, therefore, becomes his nemesis.”
