Those crazy Objectivists

If you haven't had your daily allowance of nuts today, I suggest reading the essays of Amber Pawlik. She is amusing on so many levels: she says one of her pet peeves is intellectual dishonesty, yet her philosophy/religion is founded on taking her own warped, biased view and declaring it "objective"; after thousands of years of world literature have failed to completely explain the concept of love, Pawlik boldly decides she's the only one who can rationalize it; and she most egregiously oversimplifies the field of mathematics by stating that it all comes down to "A=A".

Ignoring the fact that "A=A" doesn't even come close to guaranteeing an equivalence relation on a set (a much more mathematically interesting concept), she doesn't seem to appreciate the rigidly axiomatic nature of mathematics. Amber, if you're out there, I suggest that at a minimum you familiarize yourself with some Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory and the Peano axioms, or else you'll never be able to see that one plus one really does add up to two.

Note: In her essay "Objectivism as a Religion", Pawlik quotes Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. This is supposed to be advice for surviving in an irrational world:

"You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold on to yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is--say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise."

I ask you, the reader, to think objectively, and decide whether this is good advice for being objective. :)