The 1959 Mike Wallace Ayn Rand Interview

"In an effort to publicize [Atlas Shrugged], Ayn agreed to an interview with Mike Wallace, on his New York television show, 'Night Beat,' the hard-driving program that began his rise to prominence. They liked each other immediately, and were to visit together on a number of occasions over the following years. 'She was perfect grist for the mill of Night Beat,' Mike later said. 'She voiced provocative opinions, she was anti-establishment and utterly unexpected, with a kind of close reasoning and a clarity that one had to admire; it was a remarkable interview. And the calls and letters that poured in about it shook the rafters."

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[valhala56]

Justin are you for or again this heartless bitch, the goddess of Libertarians?

[justintempler]

@valhala56 If you just came here to troll, don't expect a response from me. I'm not going to waste time trading insults.

[fridaytieday]

@valhala56

She's no heartless bitch or goddess of libertarianism but rather a very intelligent visionary who predicted what was coming our way .... dictatorship. Collectivism enables the absolute control over others. She's asking that people be responsible for their own actions/lives....what's heartless about that? People need to grow up and be big grown up people without the nanny state dictating every aspect of their lives.

[valhala56]

@johnnibarger Well since there is no such thing as a selfless man that pretty much makes Jesus a myth.

[dillinger9999]

basing morality on logic and reason makes more sense than basing it on faith and belief, and any intelligent human being should know that faith and belief is an absence of truth.

[Task5003]

Crazy bitch.

[johnnibarger]

@valhala56 All actions are in self interest, even if we do not admit it. Those who believe in God and Heaven do "the right thing" for the rewards of God and Heaven.

Those who serve their fellow man, do so because it serves their own sense of happiness and contribution (shall we say an enjoyable hobby for lack of better term).

Christians are taught God's 1st commandment is to "love God" and the 2nd is love they neighbor AS THY SELF.

There is no such thing as a selfless mortal man in reality.

[fridaytieday]

@MOONDOGGIESWTF

Was this comment supposed to go to me? It would seem better addressed to yourself. I put it to you that it is in fact "you" who is "butt-hurt" because all you can muster up is ad hominem arguments...not scientific but nevertheless still very left-brained.

Will you ever break out of that prison I wonder?

[MOONDOGGIESWTF]

@fridaytieday and your inability to address any of the points i brought up outside being butt-hurt over being justifiably called stupid demonstrates that there isn't more to your position than nonsensical high-minded rhetoric.

[fridaytieday]

@MOONDOGGIESWTF

....it's you who is "making shit up". It's you who created the Thought Experiment on airplanes, it's you who created your own rules, so why get all sulky with me if your argument fails?

Do you want me to bake you a cake, with tools inside it, and send it to you in your left-brained prison, so maybe you can break your way out and come and join the free thinkers?

[fridaytieday]

@MOONDOGGIESWTF

Your ad hominem argument demonstrates that you are being confronted by 'thoughts' that have not been programmed into your left-brained prison.

[MOONDOGGIESWTF]

@fridaytieday and I never implied knowledge is exclusive to science you're just making shit up.

[MOONDOGGIESWTF]

@fridaytieday there are scientific principles engineers rely on so it's perfectly relevant. i didn't say man doesn't build airplanes; what you're too dense to understand is that the man who applies science will be successful not the religious ones. THIS makes the beliefs qualitatively different in there utility which why again I'll restate it since you ignored it; you're retarded for conflating and consequently dismissing them both as simply "just beliefs".