We were warned 50 years ago, we did not listen.

An interview with Ayn Rand by Mike Wallace from 1959.

I do not remember ever seeing this posted here. I'm sure most of you have seen this video, just thought I would share it with the rest of you. Neal Boortz posted it up on his site this morning.






 

I saw these before on YouTube, in a more blurry, TV version, in which Mike Wallace's microphone over his tie was so blurry that I thought it was a large cross with which he was smugly and hypocritically trying to protect himself from Ayn's philosophy.

On the Cube we have a 5-part collection of her interviews with Phil Donahue. She tried to be respectful, but when he attacked her, she used Phil's head as a mop to wipe the floor with.

- http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=1060
 

Mike Wallace sure showed her, didn't he?
 

Where is Comrade Brain In Jar? One more prole for the Jar here. I don't think you comrades give Mike Wallace enough credit, he played devil's advocate quite well in light of his Revolutionary claims in the intro.

To clarify, he's no Don Lemon.

What a shame.
 

But Don Lemon does not chain smoke during interviews. Comrade Mike gave the whole scene a flim noir ambiance, non?
 

Randroid alert. Everyone to the bunker and don your tinfoil hats. Await further orders from Laika. This is not a test.
 

Room 101

But Don Lemon does not chain smoke during interviews. Comrade Mike gave the whole scene a flim noir ambiance, non?

Oh yes, film noir, we love film noir. And massive doses of "On The Waterfront".
 

Red Rooster

Oh yes, film noir, we love film noir. And massive doses of "On The Waterfront".

I DENOUNCE Elia Kazan for abandoning The Party!!
 

I'd had every good reason to believe The Party should be driven out of its many hiding places and into the light of scrutiny, but I'd never said anything because it would be called 'red-baiting.' The `horrible, immoral thing' that I did, I did out of my own true self.
 

Elia Kazan

The `horrible, immoral thing' that I did, I did out of my own true self.

Hopefully this is not intended to be any sort of justification for your turn-coat ways, as we know there is no "self" within the Party. "Driven into the light"....yes, "scrutiny"....never!
 

I DENOUNCE Elia Kazan for posting on The Cube! I DENOUNCE Ayn Rand for testifying along with Elia Kazan in front of the HUAC!!!
 

I denounce Chris Wallace who works for Faux News. I actually heard him ask some Made Progs some tough questions. Everyone knows that the media only lobs softballs to Made Progs and plays Gotcha with Rethuglicans.
 

I can't believe this thought criminal Yaron Brook is allowed to walk the streets?

There Is No Right to Health Care

Quote:

Washington, D.C.--President Obama’s health care reform is being driven by the idea that people have a right to health care and health insurance coverage. “This is wrong,” says Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Center.

“There can be no such thing as a ‘right’ to products or services created by the effort of others, and this most definitely includes medical products and services. Rights, as our Founding Fathers conceived them, are not claims to economic goods, but to freedoms of action.

“You are free to see a doctor and pay him for his services--no one may forcibly prevent you from doing so. But you do not have a ‘right’ to force the doctor to treat you without charge or to force others to pay for your treatment. The rights of some cannot require the coercion and sacrifice of others.

“A real and lasting solution to our health care problems requires a rejection of the entitlement mentality in favor of a proper conception of rights.”
 

Wow, I mean, just wow. I've heard of her objectivism before, and read about it, but hearing it from her mouth is a totally different thing.

The funny thing is, is this is the way I usually think about life, people have their own free will to choose what they want done with it. The worst part about this philosophy is though, is it must be realized, it is not instinct, ergo, this is why we have sheep in society, except the sheep I'm talking about don't produce a thing, not even wool.

On the title, you'd think we'd of taken heed of this, but as usual, history either destroyed the whistleblowers (live and die) or it destroys the message of the whistleblowers (no one listens). She said something like "This form of government, this Welfare state, will lead us to socialism", enter Obama, I think she is spinning in her grave, along with Orwell and Huxley.

The following is just philosophical notes, if you get bored by such things, please skip this part.

The first thing I thought of when she said objectivism is a duality of reality and man's mind, the first thing I thought of was Plato actually, not Aristotle, and while there are strong similarities amongst the two, I almost felt like, where as mind-ness is what our mind is, and reality-ness is reality. In essence, just as Plato described, the mind is but a preception of mind-ness, and reality is a preception of reality-ness, ergo, we precieve everything, or in other words, what is real, and what is preception?
 

Let me urge you to read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. I find the former to be more tractable and approachable and less didactic.

I cannot pretend to be a philosopher; for that go to ABCDariusRex. I can, however, smell bullshit, which is pretty much my modus operandi.

When I was 14 I read Rand and was bowled over by her. As time went on I heard, and to some extent, internalized the sneers. The sneers of people who found her uncomfortable. Even one of my best friends thinks that down deep inside she's insane, although he hasn't put his finger on it and I can't either. I think I have rejected the sneers.

Her books are romantic--they don't exist in the world as it exists today. But they are what she would like to see. Her heroes are all big and strong; her contempt is for people wallow in the squinty-eyed, jealous muck of collectivism. In one memorable phrase she heaps scorn on an art exhibition by a painter who paints a picture of a hag picking her toes in the gutter.

And we have the National Endowment of the Arts subsidizing Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ": a jar of his piss with a crucifix in it.

She was prescient. And optimistic.
 

Commissar Theocritus

Let me urge you to read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. I find the former to be more tractable and approachable and less didactic.

I cannot pretend to be a philosopher; for that go to ABCDariusRex. I can, however, smell bullshit, which is pretty much my modus operandi.

When I was 14 I read Rand and was bowled over by her. As time went on I heard, and to some extent, internalized the sneers. The sneers of people who found her uncomfortable. Even one of my best friends thinks that down deep inside she's insane, although he hasn't put his finger on it and I can't either. I think I have rejected the sneers.

Her books are romantic--they don't exist in the world as it exists today. But they are what she would like to see. Her heroes are all big and strong; her contempt is for people wallow in the squinty-eyed, jealous muck of collectivism. In one memorable phrase she heaps scorn on an art exhibition by a painter who paints a picture of a hag picking her toes in the gutter.

And we have the National Endowment of the Arts subsidizing Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ": a jar of his piss with a crucifix in it.

She was prescient. And optimistic.
I've been meaning to get to the library or book store to obtain either of these books.

I've found philosophy to open my eyes in ways I can not even imagine,even today, I still think of the most random things, this leads toother thoughts, and leads to enlightenment for me. I still thank my 12grade Humanities teacher for doing this to me, I probably would ofbecome like this eventually, but the longer I can enjoy this, thebetter :).

You talk about the sneers from friends and such, but I can summarize it up in one phrase, all that matters is what you think, but I know you know that. I just abhor it when other's find their opinion must be enforced upon others, much like what Rand and Objectivism despise.

You mentioned she wrote of her disdain of those who sit in a muck that is collectivism and a horrible case of, what can only be described as, a very boring, and perhaps even, an unknown monotony. All I can say is, yes, now, I enjoy routine as much as everyone else, but it must be questioned by you.

Now the NEArts (not to be confused with the other association) can have their Piss Christ, because they truly are helping in making the US a commie country (number 23). Leave them be.

Leave them be.
 

Rand's books are cheap on Amazon. Worth the $$$.
 

Thanks for the tip Theo.