Sure ATLAS SHRUGGED was a BORING movie and the acting was LAME .... BUT the message it carried is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT !!!
That message is : that this world has only a FEW VERY TALENTED PEOPLE (the elites) ... and we must exempt them from taxes.... otherwise: if they leave us ... our economy will grind to a halt !!!!
For supposed rationalized people, it is amazing that no one can see that the new trinity of Me, Myself and I is what is being heralded. We cannot love without giving ourselves as a gift to others and this book seeks to distort and destroy this truth.
@ChristinaShawn Love is giving our respect, admiration, and joy as payment for the receipt of the same values from another. Love is not sacrifice, it is a mutual exchange, whose bond is only as strong as the self-interest of the people involved. If you are not looking for respect of your self, admiration of your work, and joy of your being from another, then for what purpose are you in a relationship?
@ChristinaShawn When two rationally self-interested people are in love, they are with each other because they find that ultimate recognition of themselves in the significant other - a mirror of sorts. You are in love with the fact that someone else recognizes the values that make life possible, and you endeavour to highlight your life by being with that person. But the key word here - YOUR life. It has to be Me, Myself, and I.
For all her lip service to Aristotle, Ayn Rand NEVER understood his economics (oikoinomia).
Atlas Shrugged is a paean to gold currency. But Aristotle's NOMISMA holds to the opposite:
"....but money has become by convention a sort of representative of demand; & this is why it has the name 'money' (nomisma) because it exists not by nature but by law (nomos) and it is in our power to change it & make it useless."
Aristotle would have "gold plated" Atlas Shrugged by wiping his ass with it.
This is hilarious. This is how stupid you people are "innovation crumbling under the weight of government and collectivism" Collective intelligence made you able to read this now, He didn't even come up with that video technique, so that was collective also. "Ironically, it was in philosophy that I encountered some of reasons harshest critics" - Yeah, em.. that's what philosophy is about. "Atlas Shrugged blew me away" are you kidding me? is this video a joke? It can't be OMG you're idiots
Individualism is something we have to earn not to append to our self. The book was one of the worst i have read (poorly written and not worth the paper money). Character were empty shells of humans and completely biased. Only very unmotivated people can find inspiration from this crap. I have work since 14, i am in college pursuing accelerated MS electrical engineering degree, research and work full time. I don't work for my self but for my loved ones. Selfishness is childish and unwise.
Selfishness help you (your genes) survive and procreate. Altruism on the other hand is an aberration. If it has no profit (material and non-material) than there is no logical reason to exist. However it proves that we can do action beyond simple logic. We have the power to make choices. We can choose what good and bad. Than why not make the most logical choices. We try to survive rather than try to live. We try to be individual by doing what other do. Individualism is not a way of being...
Rational Selfishness or rational Happiness are two simplistic concepts that are very distant reality. Selfishness and happiness are recursive concepts. Happiness is the state in which we want to be. Selfish is supporting our own existence. These are mass-less ideas that are created by our conscience (which is a recursive simulation of itself ). These ideas are stable because they support they own existence (not ours). Living for your own self is the same as being a slave of your genes.
In hindsight, my left-leaning professors were just professional students still clinging to the government teat. Their 'real-world' experience consisted of a taxpayer subsidized bubble in which beliefs are never effectively tested and forced to mature; so what else could they conclude other than their perspective is 'rewarding'?...I'll be picking up Atlas Shrugged today...Nice job on the video, creative and pleasing, makes the message fresh, contemporary, and relevant to a new audience. Congrats.
Really enjoyed this. Long ago fresh from under my parents roof and still floating on student loans I thought socialism was utopian and cool. Part of the charm was affirmation and acceptance of professors for being 'open-minded' - like them! Enter hard life lessons about finding strength of character to stand up for fairness and personal responsibility, the unreliability of human nature, lack of accountability, and how rewarding sloth and enabling dependency are the worst gifts to my fellow man.
Amazing video. Extremely often, it disappoints me how irrational people can be towards individualism, capitalism, and Objectivism. I always love to see people contrary to this. Much like how in The Fountainhead Dominique had to know that Howard Roark merely existed, I have to know that rational individuals, such as the maker of this video, exist.
If you have the will to do well and act on it, you do not need government for anything. Unfortunately, the American public are easily swayed by the show biz crowd and leftists who want to "take care of us."
I really like the video. Ayn Rand endorsed Austrian Economics. I would encourage everyone to go to mises.org and check it out. If you liked this video you will like the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Is there real reason? why did he put Kant's picture up as a critic of reason? Kant wrote the book Critique of Pure Reason, but he himself actually fully believed in the legitamacy of reason and a truthful life... I will say this; even if you pursue reason as your prime motive, you are still an irrational being, as nature commands of everything. Reason is a construct of the mind to explain the inexplicable world around us, just like how god is often criticized.
You see, I can't believe anyone actually got anything positive from a book that espouses the philosophy of, "Me first, fuck everyone else," and was written by a woman spent her whole life deploring the New Deal, Social Security, the Great Society and every other form of government aid to the poor and elderly ended up taking *GASP* government “handouts” herself in the form of Social Security and Medicare when she got cancer.
Funny, when listening to this promotion, I can't help but notice how much it sounds like the various Christians who have tried to convert me to Jesus. If I just give my life to reason... well, Rand's reasoning... I will be happy and joyous forever after.
So, without the use of any actual philosophy or reasoning here to make your point, this is pretty much the same as any snake oil salesman selling me a miracle...
LOL: A cartoon depicting Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., finding simple solutions to problems too complicated for President George W. Bush won Reggie Schickel '09 the "Most Original Ad" award in MoveOn.org's "Obama in 30 Seconds" video competition on Monday.
I absolutely loved this vid. When I read AS the first time I just couldn't make sense of so many things and this book helped clear my mind and focus on everything that is crucial. You got to the heart of the book and I really hope that those who watch this and haven't yet read it will go and get a copy.
Man, I'm reading this book right now and the comparison with the current world situation is inevitable!!! Excellent video! I'll use it when trying to explain to my friends what AR is all about! Thank U!
Excellent! When you're right, you're right. To everyone else: tired of the same old irrationalist appeals to authority, emotion, mysticism and tradition? How about an appeal to reason instead? Read Ayn Rand and decide for yourself. I can say, without a shred of doubt, any critique I've read of Rand is either hilarious, deliberate misinterpretation or an attack on the woman herself, never her ideas. Woman hating, in the philosophy world, is unfortunately still alive and well.
Youre all a bunch of cunts if you believe in this shit. Heard one of these clowns speak the other day and was astounded by how much of an intellectual faker he was.
The housing bubble was without a doubt a product of misalocated regulation (notice i didnt say too little for its not a matter of how much but rather how effectively apllied the reg. is).
Good video. I wonder why it is, though, that no philosophers today take Rand seriously? Most consider her something of a thoughtless, self-important hack. I think, as a philosophy PhD student, I tend to agree.
I voted for your video in the contest. It was my favorite one by far! Ironically, my 2nd favorite one, Lemonaid, earned 2nd place. I look forward to seeing the movies you'll make in the future.
That was GREAT! As a former thief, drug abuser, street-fighting trouble-maker, I was on my way to doing great harm to society. However, once I was introduced to the idea's of Ayn Rand, it changed my life forever. If fact, I spent 15 years studying Ethics, History, Philosophy...etc, and had my first book published last year ('The Common Sense Ethics of a Blue Collar Philosopher').
She wasn't perfect, but she was DEAD ON when it came to basics, and her ideas ARE beginning to change the world!
"The highest tribute to Ayn Rand, abundantly in evidence, is that her critics must distort everything she stood for in order to attack her. She advocated reason, not force; the individual's rights to freedom of action, speech, and association; self-responsibility, NOT self-indulgence; and a live-and-let-live society in which each individual is treated as an END, not the MEANS of others' ends. How many critics would dare honestly state these ideas and say, " . . .and that's what I reject"?
This is wonderful. Thank you for the free service. Hope to see your flicks on the big screen one day, though i don't go to the movies because they all suck i would go for one of yours.
Since I've become an autodidact developing my own ethics I've realized that the government is no different than a parasite that seeks to undermine and destroy individuality.
Funny enough I haven't read Atlas Shrugged but I started on her philosophical works first and then worked towards her fictional writings; personally I find the hardcore focus on philosophy as found in her non-fiction books a lot more appealing especially the books being released that are a collection of her essays.
I just finished reading this book yesterday. I feel like the ideas and philosophy from the story are still germinating inside my mind, but I feel so enriched after reading it. It's shown me some ugly truths about the world around me, but it also seems to suggest at a limitless possibility for what the world could be. I also realized why I always felt compelled to pay people back after they offered me money.
@SuperSneakySteve Haha someone else had mentioned that. Fortunately one of the perks of being an entrant is that they give you a free copy! (And you've always gotta have more than one copy to give to friends).
Nice work! I had a similar experience at Dartmouth in the mid-nineties. My econ courses by Keynes. My government courses by Marx. Despite it's undeserved reputation as the Ivy for rugged individualists, it was and is a collectivist incubator.
@famemolto I hear ya. I'm very grateful for the exposure to a broad spectrum of philosophical schools of thought during my time there but perhaps the individualist perspective is underrepresented.
Phillip Rothschild ordered one of his mistresses to write an 1100 pg book that would describe to all witches how they would take control of the World through the Illuminati: It's called Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand). She spent a third of the book describing how they would raise the oil prices and then later destroy the oil fields, completely shut down the coal, BLOW UP GRAIN MILLS & derail trains. To bankrupt & destroy their own companies until they destroyed the currency of the world -John Todd
@Phalystrix He had psychological crutches. There was something wrong with his frame of mind, he raped children, women and practiced wiccan. You're going to take this guys word? Ayn Rand knew what America was going to suffer because of the direction the federal government was taking. It was taking a centralist role in the 40's and 50's with the philosophy of "progressives." She grew up in a communist Russia so you can imagine some of the things she observed and warned Americans about in her books
I must say this is one of the best overall videos I've seen. It summarizes many of the ills of our society very clearly, and better yet, does so relative to this wonderful book. Kudos!
I must say this is one of the best overall videos I've seen. It summarizes many of the ills of our society very clearly, and better yet, does so relative to this wonderful book. Kudos!
The one irrational force around us that we CAN'T ignore is property taxes and when the government comes knockin'. This is what always made me sometimes wish I were a good little Socialist, so I wouldn't be so miserable in a world that thrives on rights violations.
Ignore the irrationalism around you? Sounds like you are evading evidence or relying on confrimation bias. I know that's not what objectivism is about but that is how it came off sounding in this video. Just letting you know.
@lashkaretoiba What's a college student to do? Walk in to a Social Studies lecture and tell a "professor" that he/she's talking nonsense? You have to get yourself in order before you can really help anyone else - whether it's physically, emotionally, or philosophically. It's like an aircraft safety briefing: if the oxygen masks drop from the panel, secure your own mask first before trying to help anyone else. This is the difference between altruism and philanthropy.
@stereoroid College student is to debate/confront the irrationalism around him. Teachers don't allow debates these days? Strange, they did when I went to college. Everything else you said was irrelvent to what I said.
It is a pity that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing and that the axiomatic nature of rational thought extends even to the fulcrum: human thinking consists of both the rational and the irrational, not one at the expense of the other. Nor is it aught but sad that a few facts, well picked or otherwise ad hoc, may serve to bolster others towards an opinion ill informed. For example, to think that there is indeed a free market system that serves aught but mercantile interests which we all share
@MorningThief83 Only own ONE copy? Heck no, you have to own several. They're for loaning out. When they like it, tell them to keep it so they can loan it to someone else. :D
Very good video. I think your video is a worthy competitor to our own video submission to the contest called "The Sixth Sense." It is currently ranked 2nd most voted.
I voted for your video and also shared it on my Facebook wall.
it is both brilliantly simple (the ideas expounded upon in your video) and yet, because you can see those ideas and so clearly express their importance, the video is simply brilliant!
@boocfuss thanks I'm glad you like the video! Conveying the ideas in a simple way while maintaining their significance is what I was going for so I'm glad you appreciate that aspect.
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Ayn Rand is a GREAT CONSERVATIVE PHILOSOPHER !!!
Sure ATLAS SHRUGGED was a BORING movie and the acting was LAME .... BUT the message it carried is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT !!!
That message is : that this world has only a FEW VERY TALENTED PEOPLE (the elites) ... and we must exempt them from taxes.... otherwise: if they leave us ... our economy will grind to a halt !!!!
Make the FLAT-TAX a reality now !!!!
MrSuperneocon 2 days ago
Well done Sir. Well done.
jarheadzader 1 week ago
I saw many of these contest entries when the contest was in full-play. Early on, I knew this one would win.
reardenmedals 1 month ago
Brilliant!!
Mike82ARP 2 months ago
libertarian bull honkey
TheMonkeybutler20 3 months ago
Great video.
mjaxdes 4 months ago
For supposed rationalized people, it is amazing that no one can see that the new trinity of Me, Myself and I is what is being heralded. We cannot love without giving ourselves as a gift to others and this book seeks to distort and destroy this truth.
ChristinaShawn 4 months ago
@ChristinaShawn Love is giving our respect, admiration, and joy as payment for the receipt of the same values from another. Love is not sacrifice, it is a mutual exchange, whose bond is only as strong as the self-interest of the people involved. If you are not looking for respect of your self, admiration of your work, and joy of your being from another, then for what purpose are you in a relationship?
AashiquiTheri 3 months ago
@ChristinaShawn When two rationally self-interested people are in love, they are with each other because they find that ultimate recognition of themselves in the significant other - a mirror of sorts. You are in love with the fact that someone else recognizes the values that make life possible, and you endeavour to highlight your life by being with that person. But the key word here - YOUR life. It has to be Me, Myself, and I.
AashiquiTheri 3 months ago 3
@AashiquiTheri Your comments are very insightfull. They made me think. Thanks
jarheadzader 1 week ago
Great job, I hope every American sees it! We really need to great this country back on track :)
KristinaJulia1 4 months ago
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For all her lip service to Aristotle, Ayn Rand NEVER understood his economics (oikoinomia).
Atlas Shrugged is a paean to gold currency. But Aristotle's NOMISMA holds to the opposite:
"....but money has become by convention a sort of representative of demand; & this is why it has the name 'money' (nomisma) because it exists not by nature but by law (nomos) and it is in our power to change it & make it useless."
Aristotle would have "gold plated" Atlas Shrugged by wiping his ass with it.
bondurango 5 months ago
Great job, I love Atlas Shrugged too!
Also could you tell me what song you used?
nom1nator 5 months ago
Great work Reggie. Keep it up, although I know I don't have to tell someone like you that.
Congratulations
TyrantBoxer 6 months ago
This makes me cry :'( Let's create Rapture
RichtoffenRoach 6 months ago
This is hilarious. This is how stupid you people are "innovation crumbling under the weight of government and collectivism" Collective intelligence made you able to read this now, He didn't even come up with that video technique, so that was collective also. "Ironically, it was in philosophy that I encountered some of reasons harshest critics" - Yeah, em.. that's what philosophy is about. "Atlas Shrugged blew me away" are you kidding me? is this video a joke? It can't be OMG you're idiots
THEINVENTABLETHREAT 6 months ago
That was a great video. It seems you need to be making documentaries. I hope to see more from you in the future.
SpencerFamily1 7 months ago
Individualism is something we have to earn not to append to our self. The book was one of the worst i have read (poorly written and not worth the paper money). Character were empty shells of humans and completely biased. Only very unmotivated people can find inspiration from this crap. I have work since 14, i am in college pursuing accelerated MS electrical engineering degree, research and work full time. I don't work for my self but for my loved ones. Selfishness is childish and unwise.
gjergjik 7 months ago
Selfishness help you (your genes) survive and procreate. Altruism on the other hand is an aberration. If it has no profit (material and non-material) than there is no logical reason to exist. However it proves that we can do action beyond simple logic. We have the power to make choices. We can choose what good and bad. Than why not make the most logical choices. We try to survive rather than try to live. We try to be individual by doing what other do. Individualism is not a way of being...
gjergjik 7 months ago
Rational Selfishness or rational Happiness are two simplistic concepts that are very distant reality. Selfishness and happiness are recursive concepts. Happiness is the state in which we want to be. Selfish is supporting our own existence. These are mass-less ideas that are created by our conscience (which is a recursive simulation of itself ). These ideas are stable because they support they own existence (not ours). Living for your own self is the same as being a slave of your genes.
gjergjik 7 months ago
@gjergjik Sofia Lamb's Philosophy has taken you mind XD
RichtoffenRoach 6 months ago
OK, the two harsh critics of Reason? I know one was Karl Marx, but who was the other one?
D4N009 7 months ago
@D4N009 Immanuel Kant
clockworkapple42 7 months ago
Amazing!!!!!!
parastimuli 7 months ago
In hindsight, my left-leaning professors were just professional students still clinging to the government teat. Their 'real-world' experience consisted of a taxpayer subsidized bubble in which beliefs are never effectively tested and forced to mature; so what else could they conclude other than their perspective is 'rewarding'?...I'll be picking up Atlas Shrugged today...Nice job on the video, creative and pleasing, makes the message fresh, contemporary, and relevant to a new audience. Congrats.
Tipjar333 7 months ago
Really enjoyed this. Long ago fresh from under my parents roof and still floating on student loans I thought socialism was utopian and cool. Part of the charm was affirmation and acceptance of professors for being 'open-minded' - like them! Enter hard life lessons about finding strength of character to stand up for fairness and personal responsibility, the unreliability of human nature, lack of accountability, and how rewarding sloth and enabling dependency are the worst gifts to my fellow man.
Tipjar333 7 months ago
Amazing video. Extremely often, it disappoints me how irrational people can be towards individualism, capitalism, and Objectivism. I always love to see people contrary to this. Much like how in The Fountainhead Dominique had to know that Howard Roark merely existed, I have to know that rational individuals, such as the maker of this video, exist.
BACUS666 8 months ago
Awesome.
JeremiahLawrenceTV 8 months ago
well done!
thank you!
vtrestrail 9 months ago
Excellent.
If you have the will to do well and act on it, you do not need government for anything. Unfortunately, the American public are easily swayed by the show biz crowd and leftists who want to "take care of us."
Vote carefully.
Do NOT vote if you do not know what's going on.
mjp621 9 months ago
Well done.
KimiAvary 9 months ago
I really like the video. Ayn Rand endorsed Austrian Economics. I would encourage everyone to go to mises.org and check it out. If you liked this video you will like the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
RockswithVox 9 months ago 4
Good luck for all your future, hopefully successful, endeavors.
Just don't follow in the footsteps of 'Jabba the Filmmaker', that donut-devouring dirty socialist Michael Moore. Tread Right, never Left.
Best,
Serr8d 9 months ago
Is there real reason? why did he put Kant's picture up as a critic of reason? Kant wrote the book Critique of Pure Reason, but he himself actually fully believed in the legitamacy of reason and a truthful life... I will say this; even if you pursue reason as your prime motive, you are still an irrational being, as nature commands of everything. Reason is a construct of the mind to explain the inexplicable world around us, just like how god is often criticized.
MaskFaceDude 9 months ago
@MaskFaceDude You said it yourself, reason explains the world around us. Use it, trust it.
klarkolofsson 7 months ago
This is fucking epic. Although i must say Hank's dating tips didn't work so well for me.
vulpesinculta51 9 months ago
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This is the Truth. Can you handle it?
vidkidxyz 9 months ago
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You see, I can't believe anyone actually got anything positive from a book that espouses the philosophy of, "Me first, fuck everyone else," and was written by a woman spent her whole life deploring the New Deal, Social Security, the Great Society and every other form of government aid to the poor and elderly ended up taking *GASP* government “handouts” herself in the form of Social Security and Medicare when she got cancer.
Dragonson145 10 months ago
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Dragonson145 10 months ago
Funny, when listening to this promotion, I can't help but notice how much it sounds like the various Christians who have tried to convert me to Jesus. If I just give my life to reason... well, Rand's reasoning... I will be happy and joyous forever after.
So, without the use of any actual philosophy or reasoning here to make your point, this is pretty much the same as any snake oil salesman selling me a miracle...
dafedge2007 10 months ago
@dafedge2007 Now you're thinking! Don't just accept anything someone tells you, good or bad, without checking it out for yourself.
Solverwiz 10 months ago
LOL: A cartoon depicting Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., finding simple solutions to problems too complicated for President George W. Bush won Reggie Schickel '09 the "Most Original Ad" award in MoveOn.org's "Obama in 30 Seconds" video competition on Monday.
kasyapa 10 months ago
Brilliant video. Thanks! Sharing.
devildogmre 10 months ago
"Entrepreneus" at 2:15 should be "entrepreneurs"
trailerparkprince 10 months ago
I am glad you found a book that changed your life, do you like other books? You should also try Scientology!
freebasedog 10 months ago
Glad to see that other people have experienced the mental sunrise that I did after reading Atlas Shrugged!
iamthemudkip 10 months ago
Absolutely GREAT video!!!
freethoughtmusic 11 months ago
I absolutely loved this vid. When I read AS the first time I just couldn't make sense of so many things and this book helped clear my mind and focus on everything that is crucial. You got to the heart of the book and I really hope that those who watch this and haven't yet read it will go and get a copy.
bellus 11 months ago
Great video. I am amazed how many minds are against freedom, free choice and the free market. What can cause such irrational thinking?
mustang607 11 months ago
Man, I'm reading this book right now and the comparison with the current world situation is inevitable!!! Excellent video! I'll use it when trying to explain to my friends what AR is all about! Thank U!
betogomez 11 months ago 2
Excellent! When you're right, you're right. To everyone else: tired of the same old irrationalist appeals to authority, emotion, mysticism and tradition? How about an appeal to reason instead? Read Ayn Rand and decide for yourself. I can say, without a shred of doubt, any critique I've read of Rand is either hilarious, deliberate misinterpretation or an attack on the woman herself, never her ideas. Woman hating, in the philosophy world, is unfortunately still alive and well.
Rockhorns76 11 months ago 6
Awesome stop-motion!
jaimekid2 11 months ago
It is so simplistic and insightful-- that it's brilliant! Great job!
54nomore 11 months ago
Youre all a bunch of cunts if you believe in this shit. Heard one of these clowns speak the other day and was astounded by how much of an intellectual faker he was.
The housing bubble was without a doubt a product of misalocated regulation (notice i didnt say too little for its not a matter of how much but rather how effectively apllied the reg. is).
tjduke1985 11 months ago
Good video. I wonder why it is, though, that no philosophers today take Rand seriously? Most consider her something of a thoughtless, self-important hack. I think, as a philosophy PhD student, I tend to agree.
gmglawson 11 months ago
NICE!!! Rand was right!
Zander4020 11 months ago 2
I can also say that my life was changed for the better after reading Atlas Shrugged in high school.
scarlett156 11 months ago 3
Brilliant.
pouzeot 1 year ago
I voted for your video in the contest. It was my favorite one by far! Ironically, my 2nd favorite one, Lemonaid, earned 2nd place. I look forward to seeing the movies you'll make in the future.
Dagny1978 1 year ago 4
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SmartCookieHere 1 year ago
Great Job.
capefearconstitution 1 year ago
well done
I'll see you on April 15
SoundEmbers 1 year ago
That was GREAT! As a former thief, drug abuser, street-fighting trouble-maker, I was on my way to doing great harm to society. However, once I was introduced to the idea's of Ayn Rand, it changed my life forever. If fact, I spent 15 years studying Ethics, History, Philosophy...etc, and had my first book published last year ('The Common Sense Ethics of a Blue Collar Philosopher').
She wasn't perfect, but she was DEAD ON when it came to basics, and her ideas ARE beginning to change the world!
sgapplebee 1 year ago 15
"The highest tribute to Ayn Rand, abundantly in evidence, is that her critics must distort everything she stood for in order to attack her. She advocated reason, not force; the individual's rights to freedom of action, speech, and association; self-responsibility, NOT self-indulgence; and a live-and-let-live society in which each individual is treated as an END, not the MEANS of others' ends. How many critics would dare honestly state these ideas and say, " . . .and that's what I reject"?
notbestfriends 1 year ago
If you think that Kant was a champion of irrationality, you failed as a philosophy student.
Vree0387 1 year ago 3
@Vree0387
Kant was a champion of Subjectivity, and anyone who champions subjectivity is pretty irrational.
sgapplebee 1 year ago
This is wonderful. Thank you for the free service. Hope to see your flicks on the big screen one day, though i don't go to the movies because they all suck i would go for one of yours.
chaserehn 1 year ago
Since I've become an autodidact developing my own ethics I've realized that the government is no different than a parasite that seeks to undermine and destroy individuality.
Swampymcswamp 1 year ago
I am glad you are seeing this world in a different way for your life long benefit.
Swampymcswamp 1 year ago
Immigrants are the reason for social decline in the west.
Whatever4690 1 year ago
Funny enough I haven't read Atlas Shrugged but I started on her philosophical works first and then worked towards her fictional writings; personally I find the hardcore focus on philosophy as found in her non-fiction books a lot more appealing especially the books being released that are a collection of her essays.
kawaiigardiner 1 year ago
@kawaiigardiner Try listening to the Audio Books, it makes it a lot more fun.
MyITRcom 11 months ago
Mmmmh, really really good.
Good thing that you read Atlas Shrugged and that it motivated you to make videos like this.
FabioCalcinelli 1 year ago
Has Obama seen (and scoffed at) this video yet?
THINKfutureShow 1 year ago
I just finished reading this book yesterday. I feel like the ideas and philosophy from the story are still germinating inside my mind, but I feel so enriched after reading it. It's shown me some ugly truths about the world around me, but it also seems to suggest at a limitless possibility for what the world could be. I also realized why I always felt compelled to pay people back after they offered me money.
Talodus 1 year ago 2
That was bad ass man!! Good job!!
amse 1 year ago 13
@amse Thanks man.
RobotFootAnimation 1 year ago
very very well done
maxisttot 1 year ago 2
GREAt!
vincentrand100 1 year ago
Unfortunately for me, my following a path of morality is going to send me to prison for being unwilling to comply with immoral acts.
TheKaffeeKlatsch 1 year ago
Amazing :) I love it. Good job.
36libertad 1 year ago
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Goosebumps....
That's the only way I can describe it.
rtj3184 1 year ago
The only part I didn't like is when you drew on the cover with a marker! What a waste of a good book!
SuperSneakySteve 1 year ago
@SuperSneakySteve Haha someone else had mentioned that. Fortunately one of the perks of being an entrant is that they give you a free copy! (And you've always gotta have more than one copy to give to friends).
RobotFootAnimation 1 year ago
Nice work! I had a similar experience at Dartmouth in the mid-nineties. My econ courses by Keynes. My government courses by Marx. Despite it's undeserved reputation as the Ivy for rugged individualists, it was and is a collectivist incubator.
famemolto 1 year ago 8
@famemolto I hear ya. I'm very grateful for the exposure to a broad spectrum of philosophical schools of thought during my time there but perhaps the individualist perspective is underrepresented.
RobotFootAnimation 1 year ago 2
Excellent video. Extremely well done.
kev3d 1 year ago
Very well done.
shilyte 1 year ago
kick ass!!! good luck
i hope you make (SEVERAL) pro-freedom movies!!!!!
ugotpimp 1 year ago
Excellent. Can i do subtitles in portuguese?
Felapa999 1 year ago
@Felapa999 of course! Thanks for sharing it.
RobotFootAnimation 1 year ago
great job.
AlreadyGalt 1 year ago
Phillip Rothschild ordered one of his mistresses to write an 1100 pg book that would describe to all witches how they would take control of the World through the Illuminati: It's called Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand). She spent a third of the book describing how they would raise the oil prices and then later destroy the oil fields, completely shut down the coal, BLOW UP GRAIN MILLS & derail trains. To bankrupt & destroy their own companies until they destroyed the currency of the world -John Todd
Phalystrix 1 year ago
@Phalystrix He had psychological crutches. There was something wrong with his frame of mind, he raped children, women and practiced wiccan. You're going to take this guys word? Ayn Rand knew what America was going to suffer because of the direction the federal government was taking. It was taking a centralist role in the 40's and 50's with the philosophy of "progressives." She grew up in a communist Russia so you can imagine some of the things she observed and warned Americans about in her books
pSychOAtDawn 1 year ago
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I must say this is one of the best overall videos I've seen. It summarizes many of the ills of our society very clearly, and better yet, does so relative to this wonderful book. Kudos!
Rickysa0 1 year ago
I must say this is one of the best overall videos I've seen. It summarizes many of the ills of our society very clearly, and better yet, does so relative to this wonderful book. Kudos!
Rickysa0 1 year ago
well done!
gta405421 1 year ago
Absolutely amazing. Great job and hope to see more from you! Subscribed!
mkloppel 1 year ago
Inspiring and Outstanding animation ! Well Done, Well Lived !
jami0070 1 year ago
The one irrational force around us that we CAN'T ignore is property taxes and when the government comes knockin'. This is what always made me sometimes wish I were a good little Socialist, so I wouldn't be so miserable in a world that thrives on rights violations.
basspig 1 year ago
Interesting how what is described in this video parallels religious conversion experiences.
ShadowPa1adin 1 year ago
nice video I agree , but sometimes mindless activities - playing - are essential for creativeness and well being.
ohffsjustgivemeauser 1 year ago
bravo! excellent job, worth spreading it! Greetings from Greece!
TOUTOUOLE 1 year ago
My compliments to you, sir.
This is an excellent piece.
WHO15JOHNGALT 1 year ago
Ignore the irrationalism around you? Sounds like you are evading evidence or relying on confrimation bias. I know that's not what objectivism is about but that is how it came off sounding in this video. Just letting you know.
lashkaretoiba 1 year ago
@lashkaretoiba What's a college student to do? Walk in to a Social Studies lecture and tell a "professor" that he/she's talking nonsense? You have to get yourself in order before you can really help anyone else - whether it's physically, emotionally, or philosophically. It's like an aircraft safety briefing: if the oxygen masks drop from the panel, secure your own mask first before trying to help anyone else. This is the difference between altruism and philanthropy.
stereoroid 1 year ago
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lashkaretoiba 1 year ago
@stereoroid College student is to debate/confront the irrationalism around him. Teachers don't allow debates these days? Strange, they did when I went to college. Everything else you said was irrelvent to what I said.
lashkaretoiba 1 year ago
could of done without the flag waving.
lashkaretoiba 1 year ago
@lashkaretoiba of != have....
HelgeBuk 1 year ago
I went to vote, and I see you have already won. Thank you for this brilliant video
ramsam70 1 year ago
It is a pity that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing and that the axiomatic nature of rational thought extends even to the fulcrum: human thinking consists of both the rational and the irrational, not one at the expense of the other. Nor is it aught but sad that a few facts, well picked or otherwise ad hoc, may serve to bolster others towards an opinion ill informed. For example, to think that there is indeed a free market system that serves aught but mercantile interests which we all share
Lieu3C4 1 year ago
Best one!
BlondBomber106 1 year ago
@2:11 collectism? is that intentionally mispelled?
jimipatterson 1 year ago
Bravo!
aprilbaby64 1 year ago
Sweet! Good work.
TheThirdEdge 1 year ago
Well done: positive, engaging, and entertaining. Congratulations.
ElleBeeTV 1 year ago
Awesome job!!!! I am going to show everyone
Metew2 1 year ago
Excellent! Congrats
christerryatl 1 year ago
i hope you didn't mess up your copy of Atlas Shrugged by drawing those devil horns on it...
MorningThief83 1 year ago 2
@MorningThief83 Only own ONE copy? Heck no, you have to own several. They're for loaning out. When they like it, tell them to keep it so they can loan it to someone else. :D
immikeurnot 1 year ago
@immikeurnot hahaha. yes, i suppose i could own another copy. perhaps a hard cover version. that & The Fountainhead.
MorningThief83 1 year ago
Thanks for reminding us all of some powerful truths. Inspiring.
bwood21390 1 year ago 2
right on
paulgruber 1 year ago
Got my vote!
ZigzagHag 1 year ago
Nice work mate - you kept it simple and fresh, less is more :) U got my vote.
Gemly 1 year ago 3
this is the best one yet, by far. fantastic job.
i can definitely see this being used as a marketing tool.
gallows888 1 year ago 13
@gallows888 actually... i just saw the Sixth Sense video. also fantastic. i guess i need to catch up.
gallows888 1 year ago
@gallows888 Thanks!
RobotFootAnimation 1 year ago
Very well done! The style is aesthetically pleasing and the message is delivered clearly and succinctly. It gets my vote. Hope you win!
paulk314 1 year ago
@paulk314 Thanks! I hope it wins too.
RobotFootAnimation 1 year ago
I like it--you might also enjoy my channel.
ObjectivistAesthetic 1 year ago
Well done! Voted.
FilipinoObjectivist 1 year ago
Very good video. I think your video is a worthy competitor to our own video submission to the contest called "The Sixth Sense." It is currently ranked 2nd most voted.
I voted for your video and also shared it on my Facebook wall.
ergosum 1 year ago
@ergosum Thanks! I had the pleasure of watching your video and am very impressed. It is a very strong piece.
RobotFootAnimation 1 year ago
yeah man you did a great job with this. putting the concepts into a personal story and a visual story makes the presentation cohesive and engaging
jsgree5 1 year ago 2
@jsgree5 glad you liked it!
RobotFootAnimation 1 year ago
it is both brilliantly simple (the ideas expounded upon in your video) and yet, because you can see those ideas and so clearly express their importance, the video is simply brilliant!
boocfuss 1 year ago 11
@boocfuss thanks I'm glad you like the video! Conveying the ideas in a simple way while maintaining their significance is what I was going for so I'm glad you appreciate that aspect.
RobotFootAnimation 1 year ago
@boocfuss Thanks!
RobotFootAnimation 1 year ago
@boocfuss Thanks!
RobotFootAnimation 1 year ago
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