Did you even the read book "Atlas Shrugged"? Or more to the point have you ever read a book without pictures? I don't think so.
Although I suppose you could just be stupid.
Ayn Rand thinks individuals should earn their wealth and not waste it supporting those who can't, unless they personally feel compelled to do so. Is that so difficult to comprehend.
Please research the next subject you choose to comment on you over educated loser.
"asshole for a month" THAT is SO true...I remember in college there where two moments when the guys - went of the rails for a while.. 2 books, The Fountainhead and On the Road...and SO predictably the weak minded among them became total douchebags for a while after...until they got over it. It didn't happen to the women...I think partially because for most of us the myth of the totally atomistic disconnected person is a JOKE. Good vlog!
At any rate, In The Fountainhead, Howard Roark GIVES Peter Keating plans for his most sufficient apartment building becuase Peter has a commission. Howard demands that Peter have it built strictly to the plans, but Peter's bosses - more concerned with useless trimmings - diminish the value and efficiency of the building. That's when Howard blows it up, and gives a wonderful speech about how uselessness is diminishing the raw values of society.
I use pieces of music I enjoy for the intro graphics regardless of how they relate to the subject matter. I would have used Ayn Rand's "Symphony no. 2", but it doesn't exist. If you really want the full version of the Nancarrow piece, send me a pm and I'll see if I can arrange something.
Ok, i didn't know that was Nancarrow. Didn't sound like him. I just saw this as a "related to" when watching a Nancarrow video and wondered how it got there. I'm not flaming :)
fuck ayn rand, i read atlas shrugged and fucking hated it. bunch of fucking self righteous elite fuckers with their digusting sense of entitlement viewing any attempt to level the playing field as an attempt to impede the fucking greatness they are destined to achieve. i agree with some of the tenets of objectivism, especially on individualism, but why present a bunch of fuckers with all the resources imaginable as the only people capable of achievement.
1) there is a moral apparatus other than ourselves, i am faith and confidence in the individual, but lets not kid ourselves, anyone not born with millions upon millions of inherited wealth ( dagny taggart), needs people to open doors for them. anyone with the resources of dagny could have built a railroad if they chose to do so, but her character made the comment "as long as they remember that i can drive a train but they cannot build a railroad", that is false.
everyone has a stake in the use of natural resources but yet they acted as if they alone owned them, that is a sense of fucking entitlement.
3. i stand corrected.
4. the characters dagny, francisco, eddie, they are the ones who spoke of destiny in the begining of the novel.
5. they didnt have it all but they had enough at their disposal to do the things they did, why didnt eddie become great, because he didnt have millions of inherited wealth.
By "research," I get the feeling you mean "what I either heard on other YouTube videos or what I barely glimpsed at on Wikipedia."
Your admission that you have not read 'Atlas Shrugged' explains your incorrect speculation as to what the book - and by extension Rand - is all about, and more importantly, how it in no moral way is relatable to Nietzsche.
You are not annoying. This is likely because you appear to be harmless. So, it is my ignorance. Ayn Rand is an abstraction, a source for humor and entertainment. A wave of pettiness that can't even be gagged upon without arrogance. Natural reactions are fantasy and she loved to laugh at that most. Achieving justice is her goal because revenge is what burns in her soul. She has refined Paulism into an absurdity that is no more useful than lizard dung. Funny.
ayn could have just kept the name she was given;alisa. whenever there is a disruption in the economy and people are hurting, many look for something different to solve the problem. ayn rands vision is very naiive and would be unworkable.
Ayn Rand had a cult following way back when. People now want to start it up again. Your video was very good and I agree with your philosophy of life as well. I just feel sorry for people tearing one another down on youtube. A nicely written book on Rand is "Ayn Rand the Russsian Radical" by Chris Matthew Sciabarra.
I like how you admitted to not reading AS and immediately afterwards you were kind enough to give us your well informed opinion - that her literature isn't great, buuut worth reading. then you spent the rest of the video discrediting your own false understanding of her philosophy. You missed the point of AS, which isn't a surprise becuae you didn't read it. and I don't believe you even read the fountainhead. Non A in this case.
The same people who subscribe Ayn Rand's philosophy are the same ones who believe that the top 1% of America is taxed too much. They are fucking cartoons.
I'd like to see a society of "rugged individualists" create an effective society that can supply education, transportation, police protection, health care, electricity, and the like to the majority of the populace.
"Rugged (or not) individualists" are already doing it. As the Amazing Atheist observed, the people running his country (i.e. the government) are dicks. They're not smart enough to provide or run these kind of services by themselves, which is why the services they do provide are usually shite of the first order. The same is probably true in your country also.
No.1) Ubermensch is an OBSCURE QUOTE out of Nietzsche's work. It is not an "ideal" nor even a larger "thesis" of Nietzsche.
No.2) I have absolutely no idea how two human beings can "run" a society. That sentence is meaningless! How do these two people get their food without a farmer growing it? How do they get their goods without a truck driver bringing it to them?
3) Is Ayn rand suggesting that capitalism could concentrate all power into the hands of two people?
Ayn Rand was definitely an asshole in her personal life, and I think her philosophy is flawed. You seem to be taking the premise of the book a little too literally though-of course the free market would not have just two people responsible for the whole thing, but Atlas Shrugged is a work of art (of whatever merit), so it is not supposed to be taken literally. The people 'shrugging' are not supposed to be taken as what it would look like, but the free market itself.
Well, not really the free market, but big business. Rand made the mistake of thinking big business was the source of prosperity on the market - but it isn't. Entrepreneurs of all sorts are.
The point of "The Fountainhead", was to reveal how the collective wishes to control and own man and his creations, and claim justification. The individual only wishes to own himself, and his creations, work. Mans human right to live for himself, his ideals. Not to be overidden/stolen as if your right to live, think, choose, exist, is owed for another's sake. "There is no collective brain".
Just "two people"? Wow. You SOOO didn't read the book. Once again... I mean... not to be a jerk... but wow. You can't firm strong opinions about something you didn't read, and it's clear you've made up your mind before you've read it... so reading it would be a waste of time for you anyway.
Ayn Rand has a problem with taking what could have been an OK 10 page story and inflating it to unholy proportions.
The only thing she got right (and what many other people had gone right long before her) is God is a REALLY good excuse for people who want to take advantage of you.
By the way, ubermensch in Nietzsche's eyes can sacrifice innocent men, if it suits them, which Rand rejects - the world collapses because it tries to mooch off the Strikers.
For the record, Rand admitted Nietzsche and she had man-worship in common, but Nietzsche was a big emotion/collectivist (Nazis LOVE HIM) and Rand was reason/individualist. [p.s. Ayn rhymes with Mine]
My comment had no intellectual value, so disregard it and let me say this:
Dagny Taggart (the heroine of AS) is a railroad magnate. If she shuts down her company, there can be no one to take her place, at least not for a while; she presumably is not manually ripping up train tracks, nor is she allowing anyone else to run on her tracks. While it's true no one railraod has ever stretched across the United States, it's a novel, and it's written, in Aristotle's words, how things could or should be.
I enjoyed it. I have a friend who, when I met her in 1971, was reading Fountain Head or Atlas Shrugged, I forget which. My friend was on the verge of falling for Rand's Objectivist Philosophy. I did a little research, a lot harder before the Internet, and after one conversation, my friend dropped Rand like a hot rock. In my book she is right up there with Scientology. Not quite so weird but certainly as objectionable. Your analysis is right on.
This is not worth watching. Criticism needs to be better formatted than just calling people assholes.
AEFic 8 months ago
Pronunciation: ine
tweekin001 1 year ago
... this is why i've never done drugs
luthierjustin1 2 years ago
Wow! Are you really educated? That's scary.
Did you even the read book "Atlas Shrugged"? Or more to the point have you ever read a book without pictures? I don't think so.
Although I suppose you could just be stupid.
Ayn Rand thinks individuals should earn their wealth and not waste it supporting those who can't, unless they personally feel compelled to do so. Is that so difficult to comprehend.
Please research the next subject you choose to comment on you over educated loser.
patraby19 3 years ago
"asshole for a month" THAT is SO true...I remember in college there where two moments when the guys - went of the rails for a while.. 2 books, The Fountainhead and On the Road...and SO predictably the weak minded among them became total douchebags for a while after...until they got over it. It didn't happen to the women...I think partially because for most of us the myth of the totally atomistic disconnected person is a JOKE. Good vlog!
CityzenJane 3 years ago
Isn't Camus an existentialist?
At any rate, In The Fountainhead, Howard Roark GIVES Peter Keating plans for his most sufficient apartment building becuase Peter has a commission. Howard demands that Peter have it built strictly to the plans, but Peter's bosses - more concerned with useless trimmings - diminish the value and efficiency of the building. That's when Howard blows it up, and gives a wonderful speech about how uselessness is diminishing the raw values of society.
piargno 3 years ago
How is this related to Conlon Nancarrow?
MLAOTNMCC 3 years ago
I use pieces of music I enjoy for the intro graphics regardless of how they relate to the subject matter. I would have used Ayn Rand's "Symphony no. 2", but it doesn't exist. If you really want the full version of the Nancarrow piece, send me a pm and I'll see if I can arrange something.
RunDX7 3 years ago
Ok, i didn't know that was Nancarrow. Didn't sound like him. I just saw this as a "related to" when watching a Nancarrow video and wondered how it got there. I'm not flaming :)
MLAOTNMCC 3 years ago
fuck ayn rand, i read atlas shrugged and fucking hated it. bunch of fucking self righteous elite fuckers with their digusting sense of entitlement viewing any attempt to level the playing field as an attempt to impede the fucking greatness they are destined to achieve. i agree with some of the tenets of objectivism, especially on individualism, but why present a bunch of fuckers with all the resources imaginable as the only people capable of achievement.
sbrian28 3 years ago
1) self-righteous? is there any other kind of moral apparatus other than ourselves?
2) entitlement? having read the book, you remember that it was entitlements which the heroes were against, not for.
3) level playing field? it is gov't intervention that "UNlevels" the marketplace.
4) destined to achieve? there is nothing destined in a universe of free will and choice.
5) well, if they had all of the resources imaginable, they would be the only ones capable - but they do not have it all.
read.
Deweyforth 3 years ago
1) there is a moral apparatus other than ourselves, i am faith and confidence in the individual, but lets not kid ourselves, anyone not born with millions upon millions of inherited wealth ( dagny taggart), needs people to open doors for them. anyone with the resources of dagny could have built a railroad if they chose to do so, but her character made the comment "as long as they remember that i can drive a train but they cannot build a railroad", that is false.
butterflymagic123 3 years ago
everyone has a stake in the use of natural resources but yet they acted as if they alone owned them, that is a sense of fucking entitlement.
3. i stand corrected.
4. the characters dagny, francisco, eddie, they are the ones who spoke of destiny in the begining of the novel.
5. they didnt have it all but they had enough at their disposal to do the things they did, why didnt eddie become great, because he didnt have millions of inherited wealth.
butterflymagic123 3 years ago
Have you ever noticed that objectivists always argue their philosophy by simply yelling at people to read her books?
O, yeah...
HegAndCapGood 3 years ago
By "research," I get the feeling you mean "what I either heard on other YouTube videos or what I barely glimpsed at on Wikipedia."
Your admission that you have not read 'Atlas Shrugged' explains your incorrect speculation as to what the book - and by extension Rand - is all about, and more importantly, how it in no moral way is relatable to Nietzsche.
Deweyforth 3 years ago 2
I agree, Though I believe the only time you can use "Philosopher" to describe Ayn Rand is when your describing what she is not.
Vercingetorix2736 3 years ago
You are not annoying. This is likely because you appear to be harmless. So, it is my ignorance. Ayn Rand is an abstraction, a source for humor and entertainment. A wave of pettiness that can't even be gagged upon without arrogance. Natural reactions are fantasy and she loved to laugh at that most. Achieving justice is her goal because revenge is what burns in her soul. She has refined Paulism into an absurdity that is no more useful than lizard dung. Funny.
ax4523 3 years ago
My feelings exactly. Chapeau bas!
vortex8612 3 years ago
ayn could have just kept the name she was given;alisa. whenever there is a disruption in the economy and people are hurting, many look for something different to solve the problem. ayn rands vision is very naiive and would be unworkable.
jnycnuk 4 years ago
Ayn Rand had a cult following way back when. People now want to start it up again. Your video was very good and I agree with your philosophy of life as well. I just feel sorry for people tearing one another down on youtube. A nicely written book on Rand is "Ayn Rand the Russsian Radical" by Chris Matthew Sciabarra.
paradirob 4 years ago
Another idiot talking shit out of his ass!
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magicnmusicdgurl 4 years ago
I like how you admitted to not reading AS and immediately afterwards you were kind enough to give us your well informed opinion - that her literature isn't great, buuut worth reading. then you spent the rest of the video discrediting your own false understanding of her philosophy. You missed the point of AS, which isn't a surprise becuae you didn't read it. and I don't believe you even read the fountainhead. Non A in this case.
12Project 4 years ago
what is the point of atlas shrugged
butterflymagic123 3 years ago
the point of atlas shrugged is that you have the inherent right as a human being not to sacrifice yourself for nor live at the mercy of others.
sbrian28 3 years ago
But... but... Ayn Rand was a Genius!!1one!
The same people who subscribe Ayn Rand's philosophy are the same ones who believe that the top 1% of America is taxed too much. They are fucking cartoons.
I'd like to see a society of "rugged individualists" create an effective society that can supply education, transportation, police protection, health care, electricity, and the like to the majority of the populace.
yarragril 4 years ago
"Rugged (or not) individualists" are already doing it. As the Amazing Atheist observed, the people running his country (i.e. the government) are dicks. They're not smart enough to provide or run these kind of services by themselves, which is why the services they do provide are usually shite of the first order. The same is probably true in your country also.
Guncriminal 4 years ago
No.1) Ubermensch is an OBSCURE QUOTE out of Nietzsche's work. It is not an "ideal" nor even a larger "thesis" of Nietzsche.
No.2) I have absolutely no idea how two human beings can "run" a society. That sentence is meaningless! How do these two people get their food without a farmer growing it? How do they get their goods without a truck driver bringing it to them?
3) Is Ayn rand suggesting that capitalism could concentrate all power into the hands of two people?
otonanoC 4 years ago
Haleluja! Someone who'd actually read Neitzsche and understood it.
Guncriminal 4 years ago
Ayn Rand was definitely an asshole in her personal life, and I think her philosophy is flawed. You seem to be taking the premise of the book a little too literally though-of course the free market would not have just two people responsible for the whole thing, but Atlas Shrugged is a work of art (of whatever merit), so it is not supposed to be taken literally. The people 'shrugging' are not supposed to be taken as what it would look like, but the free market itself.
Nasikabatrachus 4 years ago
Well, not really the free market, but big business. Rand made the mistake of thinking big business was the source of prosperity on the market - but it isn't. Entrepreneurs of all sorts are.
Elhan2005 4 years ago
Apparently, "Ayn" is supposed to rhyme with "mine".
jiffy2001 4 years ago
The point of "The Fountainhead", was to reveal how the collective wishes to control and own man and his creations, and claim justification. The individual only wishes to own himself, and his creations, work. Mans human right to live for himself, his ideals. Not to be overidden/stolen as if your right to live, think, choose, exist, is owed for another's sake. "There is no collective brain".
zippitybop 4 years ago
You are a fool.
SBX1987 4 years ago
Psalms 14:1 - The fool has said in his heart, "There is no god."
Guess I am a fool.
RunDX7 4 years ago
Foolish, but cute.
Elhan2005 4 years ago
It seems kind of thick(inches) but I guess I'll have to read AS to see what this is all about.
lrgpp 4 years ago
Who are the people who are already in place who are keeping it (the world) going?At 5:45. They are keeping 10 others who could do it better? what?
lrgpp 4 years ago
Kailoa and Socrates, thanks. With all the noise the Randists make, it feels like I am the only skeptic sometimes.
RunDX7 4 years ago
I'm "more or less" a libertarian.
I'm more of a Kropotkinist than a Randist.
Oh, fuck it, I'm really a Chomskian anarchist.
socratesone 4 years ago
Awesome! I think you pretty much nailed Ayn Rand.
... eh, now there's a thought.
socratesone 4 years ago
Just "two people"? Wow. You SOOO didn't read the book. Once again... I mean... not to be a jerk... but wow. You can't firm strong opinions about something you didn't read, and it's clear you've made up your mind before you've read it... so reading it would be a waste of time for you anyway.
LinzerDinzer 4 years ago
I've read the book RunDX7.
Ayn Rand has a problem with taking what could have been an OK 10 page story and inflating it to unholy proportions.
The only thing she got right (and what many other people had gone right long before her) is God is a REALLY good excuse for people who want to take advantage of you.
yarragril 4 years ago
By the way, ubermensch in Nietzsche's eyes can sacrifice innocent men, if it suits them, which Rand rejects - the world collapses because it tries to mooch off the Strikers.
For the record, Rand admitted Nietzsche and she had man-worship in common, but Nietzsche was a big emotion/collectivist (Nazis LOVE HIM) and Rand was reason/individualist. [p.s. Ayn rhymes with Mine]
xdarkentries 4 years ago
My comment had no intellectual value, so disregard it and let me say this:
Dagny Taggart (the heroine of AS) is a railroad magnate. If she shuts down her company, there can be no one to take her place, at least not for a while; she presumably is not manually ripping up train tracks, nor is she allowing anyone else to run on her tracks. While it's true no one railraod has ever stretched across the United States, it's a novel, and it's written, in Aristotle's words, how things could or should be.
xdarkentries 4 years ago
Someone who uses the phrase "the shit" and can't pronounce "Ayn" shouldn't throw stones.
xdarkentries 4 years ago
word
charliemaine01 4 years ago
I enjoyed it. I have a friend who, when I met her in 1971, was reading Fountain Head or Atlas Shrugged, I forget which. My friend was on the verge of falling for Rand's Objectivist Philosophy. I did a little research, a lot harder before the Internet, and after one conversation, my friend dropped Rand like a hot rock. In my book she is right up there with Scientology. Not quite so weird but certainly as objectionable. Your analysis is right on.
Kailoa36 4 years ago
Give a taste of the research you did that caused your friend to drop Rand like a hot rock if you would.
lrgpp 4 years ago