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Yeah, but nobody reads this anyway.

I've been listening to NIN's "Year Zero" since it came out last week.

I believe it was Ayn Rand who described the subjectivist as a frustrated intrinsicist. That is, either knowledge (and morality) is just given, like a bolt of lightning from God's mind to ours, or else we can know nothing. "Year Zero" illustrates her point perfectly.

For example, from the song "Capital G":
"Well I used to stand for something / But forgot what that could be."

And starting with the track "The Warning", he introduces The Presence, some extraterrestrial or supernatural authority warning mankind: "You will change your ways and you will make amends / Or we will wipe this place clean."

I find it very interesting many who explicitly reject religion apparently still feel the need to have some "higher" being that must tell us what is right and wrong. The only alternative they perceive is "anything goes". Rand understood that this is a false alternative, and gave us the non-supernatural, objective solution.