The Fountainhead Commercial (good one)

[AnubisEye009]

In the "Romantic Manifesto" she explains why she wrote the way she did.

[atchoo10]

I thought youtube buffered with that slam dunk scene!!! Ayn Rand would have been . . .

[spiritcatcher10]

I am shocked that you got an "A". It must have been for effort and completing the project on time.

keep trying though, you now have the basics of experience.

[spiritcatcher10]

I am shocked that you got an "A". It must have been for effort and completeing the project on time.

keep trying though, you now have the basics of experience.

[smujismuj]

A mediocre novel with a cast of two dimensional characters.

[autopolydidact]

@smujismuj Your'e right, two dimensional-characters; the rest were strictly non-dimensional.

[VALENTINEBEAMS]

lol the state of education in the US. I actually like the video, but some friends of mine did this for Macbeth after my hard-researched, four minute, in-depth analysis of some of the themes of Othello. Guess whose video beat whose slide-show to the chocolate prize? Still bitter, after all these years...

[swu880]

wow- ok thats plain wierd....

[braddjukich]

hahahaha...telling your mom to "shut up!" ...that part was so funny.

[PerennialLucidity]

whoever made this video is weak.

[Joeey]

except that if mom felt that way you wouldn't exist

[SteveBKNY]

just wasted 30 seconds of my life

[KnobsTheClown]

Paranoid, creepy cult.

[AeEgurl516]

"Mom, why don;t you like the Fountainhead?"

"I just couldnt get into the whole objectivism thing. It's all me me me."

"Shut up!"

LOLZ! and this book is deep. Really like it.

[monky999]

that part was seriously funny. ayn rand would have loved it.

[clearsky24]

Spectacular video, though maybe just a little too long on the slam dunk portion. Just a frame or two shorter might have made it better.

Okay.... no really ....way too long on the slam dunk part.

So overall I give it a 9.9

[BfSkinnerPunk]

The makers of this video...as silly as it is... are going to be alright in life.

[backlighting]

Rand rocks!

[PureLiberalRadio]

All that "me, me, me" is what life's all about, mom!

[MrUncomfortableTruth]

yeah mom... shut up. hey mom maybe if u were more focused on yourself in your 20s and 30s you could have been living in a much nicer house. instead you live in a shithole. when ayn rand comes back to earth on dooms day you will be sorry.

[gaymansfart]

okay, the fountainhead is the shit.... my is name rukmini-devi contreras. i live in houston, tx.... and hello fellow prime mover.. yea. okay, peace.

[whatwouldmattdo]

i hope they failed you for this piece of crap

[Bulacanos]

failed your school project

[jjmichael1]

Never tell your mom Shut up! Bad person! Your (ego) could not take another persons opinion which means your brain is still undeveloped. You contradict readin ayn rand and behaving in such a way. Your a kid but if i was caught saying that to my mom i would be in big trouble. Say it to your friends not someone who changned you poopy diapers

[Butterball197]

you guys = awesome

[jackthecripple]

Ayn Rand fans generally take themselves too seriously. then they try to show you how cool and relaxed they are and how they can wipe the floor with you in a philosophical debate without even trying, even if you had no intention to start one whatsoever.

that's because reading any one of Rand's works gives you an instant 100 point IQ boost, plus 50 more for each person you convert. and if you reach 1000, you gain the ability of transforming into Howard Roark.

[Talat112]

Holy cow, I thought that ability was unlocked at 10000 points!

I guess that was the ability to transform into John Galt.

[illumined1]

Philosophies and ideas are subject to survival. If one idea cannot hold up against another in debate or practice, it should be either modified or discarded. Why exempt your own beliefs from scrutiny? Fear? Anxiety? What is so bad about being wrong, as long as you fix it?

[th3dark3rsh33p]

There is a very good argument against what his mom said, he just didn't pull it out. He decided to be an idiot about it, and it was pretty funny.

and 10000 IQ points is the ability to turn into John Galt, not Roark.

[synkiore]

I agree.

[karnubawax]

SHUTUP!! LOL!!

[AshXQ]

lol

[freesk8]

Fountainhead is a great book.

Read it.

Then read Atlas Shrugged.

It'll change your life!

[ijustreview]

I haven't read Atlas Shrugged, but i have read the fountainhead, and it already changed my life....

Before i was relatively liberal

Now I'm a communist. If I could barely stomach 726 pages, i can't see how i could handle >1000

[freesk8]

A communist isn't so bad. At least you are not a socialist! True communism is voluntary, like a commune or a kibbutz. But socialism involves force. The USSR, Cuba, N. Korea and Nazi Germany are all examples of socialism, not communism.

I can handle a true communist.

Feel free to join one!

Just don't try to force communal living on others as the socialists do.

We Rand fans can live peacefully with communists.

But not socialists like Bush and Obama.

[synkiore]

Well said.

[errskin]

you commie

[freesk8]

I was a member of a coop in college. We rented the huge, old house and ran it ourselves. Is that a commune? If hippies buy a farm and run it like a family, is that a commune?

The USSR, Cuba and N. Korea are NOT communes by this definition. They are socialist nations. Communes are voluntary.

Socialism is evil. It requires force. True communism is not always evil.

I'm a minarchist libertarian. I'm a free market capitalist. This is more compatible with private communes than is socialism.

[errskin]

communism doesn't work, socialism doesn't work. they are both stupid and evil. if you want to live on a commune thats your choice, nobody cares about that, its when its forced upon others is where it gets bad. call it what you want, communism is stupid. did you hippie commune farm work out?

[freesk8]

Relax, my friend, I am on your side!

Here is what I am trying to do:

Liberals want socialism. But they try to say that they DON'T want what the USSR and Cuba et al had. THAT, they say, was not socialism, it was communism.

I'm pointing out that it was the same thing that they want: socialism. The USSR was NOT communism, it was socialism!

I have an unconventional, yet more accurate definition for communism, that is not the same as yours.

Voluntary, small group communism CAN work and did for me.

[errskin]

you say it worked for you, are you still in a commune?

[freesk8]

Nope. Got a nice house in the burbs. Haven't lived in the coop for 22 years.

But it made sense at the time, and it was totally free market! :)

I think that families are communes as well.

But I doubt communism can really work for a group of more than 40 people.

Love is required for communism to work.

[errskin]

lol, commie families!

[wrjamescom]

Socialism is a learning disorder. Those able to learn eventually, after enough failures and no sign of success, learn better and stop trying it. Liberals can't learn, they always think that no matter how many times it's failed before, it will work next time. But they do recognize that it can't support itself without robbing people. If the left wingers thought it could, they'd just make their socialist scams entirely voluntary and never demand tax dollars.

[freesk8]

Well put.

[wrjamescom]

You are almost totally correct. I take issue with only one point. Dictatorships are not nations, they are real estate infected by a thug holding the natives as slaves. Slaves are tools, not "people" in the sense that people have minds of their own and slaves serve the mind of their owner. Cuba is not a nation, it has no seat in the UN, it has no representation anywhere. Castro does, but no other cuban. The UN is evil because it treats dictators as if they are nations.

[freesk8]

Hmm. You have an interesting technical definition of "nation." I see what you mean, in terms of that definition.

I guess that I value nation status less than you do. Lysander Spooner had some very interesting arguments that de-legitimize even the best of nations. So I see the kind of thing that Castro is doing as on the same spectrum as what Bush and Obama are doing, just a bit worse.

And the UN has no legitimacy for me. Bunch of unelected bureaucrats with no real power or impact.

[wrjamescom]

We should leave the UN and bod their little begging dictator club off of our soil. Let them move it to Libya or Nigeria.

[hanniballecturer]

Lol, well said. I like Rand, but watching all these people discover her and turn her into some neocon idol is just pathetic. For every good point she makes, she commits two philosophical blunders or outright narcissitic conceits...

[JoeyDaytona]

5 stars, I laughed, I cried, then I laughed yet again...

[BruceTheStew]

i gotta say man the whole mom why dont you like the fountianhead *well you see its because.. SHUT UP lol thats deffinently fitting to this books idea lol love the book tho

[RichardRoy2]

Well, if I'd seen this 'commercial' for this book, I'd likely not want to see the movie or read the book. Glad they weren't around to infulence me prior to my intro to them. The book is not represented accurately, except by your misinterpretation, by this video. It's like anything that can be interpreted; it can also be misinterpreted.

[kelliebearS2]

SHUT UP

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[bonokicksbutt]

Ahh, you know some of us actually like this book.

Like me.

But whatever, I get how you don't really care lol, and the music made me want to dance.

[whites32]

FUCK YOU

[philosophyarchitect]

Oh, and er... having elaborate thoughts means you take yourself too seriously? Come on.

But people worked up about this silly video should still probably chill.

[philosophyarchitect]

I'm a huge Ayn Rand fan and I wasn't offended. I found it pretty funny except for the part with the basketball player which was just nothing.

I'd like to mention that to call Objectivism "me me me" misrepresents it, though. "Me me me" is meant to remind us of someone who wants every conversation and consideration a group makes to be about them. Which means you expect other people to serve you excessively. Which Objectivism would positively oppose.

[cute12but12strange]

I haven't finished The Fountainhead yet, I'm about halfway throught, but I absolutely love it. I've never read anything like it. It is amazing....... Ayn Rand has an exquisit way with words.

[xondragalvez]

I liked the video until I read your disclaimer. Sorry for being "serious business"

[royerood]

Socialism does seem logical, but it goes against the 8th commandment THOU SHALT NOT STEAL. As Bastiat pointed out, whenever the govt takes my money and gives it to another taxpayer (via the IRS), it's called STEALING. Rand was not opposed to your giving your own money to someone via your own free will. That's good see ya roy e rood, tampa

[reneekatz]

Did you get an A!?

[puddingvandal31]

I did in fact get an A. I'm suprised I did, becuase my teacher doesn't take too well to humor, I'm also surprised anyone else took this video seriously, I mean the last half of the whole thing is a slow motion slam dunk.

[reneekatz]

I thought it was funny.

[HowardFair]

You clearly have a better sense of humor than Ayn Rand. Probably more intelligent, too. My bet is you'll be less and less impressed by her as you get older. That's not the case for everyone, though.

[inflamesrgods]

Did you become less and less impressed? I haven't. I have become more and more impressed with her. Her ideas were not meant for younger people and they do not grow obsolete as you get older. They become more relevant and interesting.

[HowardFair]

Please! Rand never really grew up. Look at her personal life. Take a look at her fans. She is much more popular with younger people. Most of her ideas are recycled and the ones that aren't are laughable when you take a step back. When I read the Fountainhead I had to keep pinching myself to remind myself it wasn't a parody of itself.  Unlike L. Ron Hubbard, Rand wasn't playing a joke on her followers--she believed it!

[inflamesrgods]

what do you call growing up? Losing your self-esteem, your joy for the world, your desire to be heroic and be good? In that sense she never did grow up. She was a romantic.

[lapwiz]

Ayn Rand's "philosophy" is nearly perfect in its immorality. Your mom is right. Objectivism is the glorification of selfishness.

[nosavage25]

And what is the definition of selfishness? I'll tell you, it is "concern with one's own interests." Why should anyone live their life beholden to the needs of others? Her primary focus was on the *FREEDOM* of man, and if you *CHOOSE* to help others then you are free to do so; but they do *NOT* have any claim on you whatever, you are free.

[LittlePoopyJimmy]

flibbity floo! loooool

[lapwiz]

Ayn Rand's "philosophy" is nearly perfect in its immorality. Your mom is right. Objectivism is the glorification of selfiness.

[AirTylerFilms]

"if i could read, i would read the fountain head"

ha ha, nice

[prettynice68]

I think it's sweet that you liked this book enough to make a commercial for it. It deserves it! The FountainHead is Rocks.

It's inspiring and uplifting for lots of us who choose to have control over our own thoughts, ideas, and opinions and choose to live that way!

[theluscioussound]

Your mother is an idiot. Tell her I send my regards as she climbs the rungs of mediocraty.

[nosavage25]

Ad hominem attacks are illogical and irrelevant.

[LittlePoopyJimmy]

*farts*

[rachelb1965]

This is particularly for thelusciosusound and mountainviewguy. 1) My personal opinion on objectivism is accurate. It's something we had discussed when my son was reading it. (I'm a Buddhist and believe compassion was one of the most noble traits of people.)

2) Did it ever occur to you (or any other people reading this that this was something we rehearsed a couple times? He doesn't tell me to shut up. It was for the video which was a project he had to do back when he was in high school.

Namaste

[themountainviewguy]

Anyone who yells shut up at their mother on video and publishes it on Youtube is a piece of crap subhuman garbage trying to hide behind Ayn Rands even bigger piece of crap.

[accemekun]

I see the communists are out posting against everything right and good again.

No matter how much you love Stalin, communism failed because it forces individuals into an unnatural collective.

If you want to live in a collective of fools, just about any European country will do.

Of course, if Hilary "I want to TAKE those profits" Clinton is elected, you can watch the downfall of this great nation on TV. The commie bull dyke may even start the purge of evil capitalist enemies of the state.

[jalokim2002]

'If you want to live in a collective of fools, just about any European country will do.' Do you even know what the fuck you are talking about? because you know nothing about politics or europe

[nosavage25]

I know a great deal about politics and Europe. And you are almost all neo-socialist hippies. France is the epitome of the welfare state, nearly 30% of the country works for the state and their idea of economic expansion is to expand the state. I have seen your EU pamphlets, it is all socialist propaganda.

[haomani]

accemekun - EXCELLENT POST! WHO CAPITALISM! LONG LIVE ANTI-COMMUNISM!!!

I like the last paragraph, very well put.

[LittlePoopyJimmy]

me me me SHUT UP

aaahhhahhahahahahaha

[valeriebaby]

if you losers think the fountainhead is such a "slam dunk" why dont you tell us why? oh yea, you guys are retards who wouldnt know the philosophy or message of the fountainhead because you did NOT read it. go grow the fuck up

[LittlePoopyJimmy]

It's not a slam dunk, it's fucked shit, it's all about IM THE BADDEST and FUCK whoever gets in my way, and GOD I'm glad ayn rand is dead and I'm going to shit on her grave and post it on youtube

[accemekun]

LittlePoopyJimmy. What an appropriate name for a communist.

I guess you think government should steal from those who work and redistribute it to those lazy bastards who refuse to work.

Socialist/communist/democrat garbage has just about bankrupted this once great nation. Who will feed the lazy when all taxes go to pay the interest on the nanny state national debt?

Go ahead. Vote for Hilary or Obama. You can get a few more years of nanny state handouts before it crumbles like the USSR.

[rachelb1965]

What are you talking about??!! You got THAT out of this video??!!

[LittlePoopyJimmy]

That's what the video is about. You're not Buddhist. Buddhism and "objectivism" are mutually exclusive philosophies. That is, unless you think the drunken pukefests that constitute the majority of Chogyam Trungpa's writings are "Buddhism." Or the classic whiteboy "buddhist" fatal gay sex addiction of Osol Tenzin. Oh, wait a minute -- of course. You're white. Nevermind.

Compassion and objectivism are diametrically opposed.

I command silence from the maw of iniquity commonly known as your gob.

[sumfamousperson17]

That's a great piece of literature you're insulting there. I doubt you understood the concepts presented it.

[LittlePoopyJimmy]

Who gives a fuck? Moron.

[sumfamousperson17]

I do of course.

[accemekun]

sumfamousperson17, you are wasting your time trying to educate communists. They have been taught by the communist propagandists in public education to revile all ideas that praise individuals or capitalists.

The youth of today stand up and cheer when Hilary says she wants to TAKE profits and redistribute them to the proletariat.

God help us.

[nosavage25]

May all of us who know better stand up and blast their ideas off of the Earth forever!

[rbilkie]

I think the most logical interpretation of this video is:

You're a bunch of stupid, spoiled little brats, dying for attention and seeking it by mocking something brilliant and noble. There's nothing more disgusting than someone who is completely incapable of reverance for something that actually deserves it. Go to hell, you rotten little assholes. And everyone who sanctions this video and gives favorable comments to it gets a textual middle finger from me.

[drhymes27]

sweet video

[baggiobaggio1212]

Thank you for making this video. I laughed my ass off. This belongs on Adult Swim.

[wcduke]

Cheesy video, but hey, at least he's reading books, learning how to speak proper English, and not aspiring to be a rap star. P.s. - I agree with your mother about objectivism; it's stupid.

[LittlePoopyJimmy]

stupid and dangerous and sickeningly selfish, I was busy lambasting a Ron Paul video and saw a vid of him talking about atlas shrugged, and voila! I figured out one of my most despised dead enemies has a devoted youtube following. AKA- TROLL FOOD YUM YMU NUM NYUM YUM :-D

[adisdas]

mm..this is pretty terrible.

hollywood liberals have to compete with this trash?

better luck on the next video for everyone's sake.

[cleverloginname]

Awesome.

[myopicprude]

So so funny.... :D

[wsmith68]

Its you duty as a good altruist to send me money for anti-nausea pills. Because you make me want to fucking puke.

[HowardFair]

W(inston?)smith68, I'd send you anti nausea pills because it's in my rational self interest not to have you puking all over the place. Have a nice day!

[cqtaylor]

Young adult reads the Fountainhead and becomes deeply impressed! "Wow"... Didn't see that comin'

[liveshotnj]

perhaps when we are young we are more open-minded.

[kenrubes]

you're a strange dude, but you like the Fountainhead, so that's good. Plus, shutting the mom up was priceless.