Ayn Rand wants you to find love.

looks like arpanet's servers might not have been ready to become a facebook meme

AYN RAND

Public institutions in society should exist only to support the individual not force it into abandoning its own private interest.

JIM HENSON

I think Ms. Rand and my character Oscar the Grouch would have a lot to talk about actually. I am laughing out loud at this idea.

AYN RAND

Why would I want to talk to him. What has he achieved or trying to achieve.

JIM HENSON

He has achieved what I think is the ultimate goal of your way of thinking.

YOKO ONO

But society is what makes our culture and is what makes a people different. I know the US is different to Japan. THe US should try to get on with societies it doesnt like. Vietnam was a catastrophe.

JIM HENSON

Isolation. Contempt for others. A hard heart. Yet even he can muster a bit of empathy every now and then.

SIDNEY NOLAN

When Ms. Rands idea of individualism is amplified to the extreme things like Vietnam happen.

AYN RAND

I am not isolated. I have no contempt for others. Millions of people read my books and find my thoughts inspirational. I hardly spend my time on the sidelines in a trash can grumping.

JIM HENSON

Not yet anyway.

AYN RAND (on the muppets)

To be honest I find it to be senseless entertainment. I prefer the celebration of men and what they can achieve.

Jim Henson would have made a great ILXor, it seems.

too bad it's fictional :(
http://www.arpanetdialogues.net/disclaimer/

thanks for finding that.

i was about to say, this doesn't scan as very real to me

http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2011/06/the-fountainhead-of-satanism

quite embarrassed to have been taken in -- but for some reason parts of the henson comments were just plausible enough given some of the other things that generally happen in silicon valley. once I actually started reading the reagan / said exchanges it was just too florid to accept

yeah i bought it too, where's my 21st century permanent scepticism? congrats to ayn rand for being such a ridiculous person that even a pretty extreme parody seems plausible, though.

Aw, bummed it's not real. Gave me a new screen name though.

did not seem at all real to me - for one thing, i assume that rand would be much more logically argumentative and long-winded in her responses

"grumping" did not seem like a Randian word to me.

Henson "laughing out loud" stuck out immediately.

Stephen Colbert ‏@StephenAtHome

I believe Ayn Rand's first love poem went: Roses are red/ violets are blue/ finish this poem yourself / you dependent parasite

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/ayn-rand-reviews-childrens-movies

“The Muppets Take Manhattan”

This movie was a disappointment. The Muppets do not take Manhattan at all. They merely visit it. —No stars.

A+

Yes, the first few are good as well.

Her fiction is much funnier, if unintentional.