― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Now that's how Rand makes in-roads in education. Every English class from seventh grade on had a poster for their essay contest. I never could bring myself to enter.
(I never had a Rand phase - I had an Orwell/Hemingway/pine-for-the-glorious-Spanish Republic phase. I call that phase "my teenage years.")
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link
And Nietzsche had plenty of problem, mainly involving women. Either in his take on them("Everything Nietzsche ever knew about women was second-hand and third-rate" -Walter Kaufman) or his nutzoid sister who shacked up with a proto-nazi husband and put out a random blather of N's notes and called it "Will to Power."
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't remember Marxist boy's opinion on Kant, but I know he's read him and a ton of other philosophers. (He and another friend of mine are in a Facebook group called "Let the General Will Be Sovereign" where argue about Rousseau.)
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Eppy (epp...) (webmail), Today 5:47 PM. (Eppy) (link)
EH?
I've only read half of Twilight of the Idols and am in the process of reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra but I wouldn't call him a political philosopher. He seems like more of a moral philosopher determined to tear down rationalist and Christian tradition
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 19 October 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Kiwi (Kiwi), Thursday, 19 October 2006 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Kiwi (Kiwi), Thursday, 19 October 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Kiwi (Kiwi), Thursday, 19 October 2006 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Rush and Joy Division dude!
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Kiwi (Kiwi), Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Zwan (anthonyisrigh...), October 19th, 2006.
U&K.
(I have a friend who was required to read Anthem in hs FWIW. It is only since coming to the US that I've realized people actually think of AR as a serious philosopher on par with Nietzsche [whom I've never read]. Not to say it doesn't happen in Canada, just I never really noticed it so much. [I don't really think Peart did before anyone gets to that.] She's not without her merits, as extracurricular high school reading goes. Can't have been that much worse than Brave New World.)
― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pork Cheops (willpie), Friday, 20 October 2006 01:19 (seventeen years ago) link
ha, i know what you mean, but yeah, that's unfair. lars is a humanist. he just doesn't like people very much. but dogville is really kind of an anti-anthem.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Re: LOWENDBRO & "mutally exclusivism," Nietzsche & Marxism can coexist quite easily if you follow the literature into the Nietzsche-influenced post-Marxists like Louis Althusser & Alain Badiou (the fucking MAN).
― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Friday, 20 October 2006 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link
http://common.swankmp.com/movie_titles/images/incredibles.jpg
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link
I bet this film totally blows, but in a non-entertaining manner. Rand was a crashing bore.
They should make a film based on that steve ditko objectivist superhero comic - Mr A, was it? That would be hilarious.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, it must be noted that Rand's influence is far more keenly felt on the Internet than it is IRL. Randians do love to post on message boards and blog threads.
― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― mh. (mike h.), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
zaxxon25, I totally agree with you. The Incredibles creaped me out.
WHY DOES OUR SOCIETY CRUSH EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE?!?! OMG, THERE'S NO WHERE FOR PEOPLE WITH TALLENT AND WILL TO GO. DAMN THE COMMON HERD! DAMN THE SOCIALISTS RUNNING THIS COUNTRY!
Why do so many people identify with this movie?
― Coach Dave (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link
I find the idea that these books are thrilling far more ridiculous than that they have anything in common with Nietzsche.
― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/102306/ayn-rand.gif
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer: Veteran of the Mai Tai Massacre (latebloomer), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117971319.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
Vadim Perelman to direct 'Atlas' Jolie to star in Lionsgate's Ayn Rand adaptation By MICHAEL FLEMING
Lionsgate has brought on Vadim Perelman to rewrite "Atlas Shrugged" and direct Angelina Jolie in the starring role.
While Lionsgate needs to get a final script before formally committing to a start date with Perelman at the helm, the move puts the company in a strong position for an early 2008 production start, just a shade over 50 years after Ayn Rand's famed novel was first published in 1957.
Pic will be produced by Howard and Karen Baldwin and Media Talent Group's Geyer Kosinski.
Perelman will work from a draft of the script penned by "Braveheart" scribe Randall Wallace, who managed to boil down the Rand manifesto of 1,100-plus pages into a 127-page script. The drama revolves around what happens when great industrialists and thinkers go on strike and the world grinds to a halt.
Wallace will remain involved, and in a recent meeting with Perelman, the pair traded Russian dialogue. Perelman was born in Kiev, while Wallace has picked up the language researching his Catherine the Great pic "The Mercenary"; Rand was born in Russia. Perelman has brought his own take that will be incorporated into Wallace's script.
Perelman's latest film, the Uma Thurman-Evan Rachel Wood starrer "In Bloom," premieres at the Toronto Film Festival. It's his first since his 2003 breakthrough, "House of Sand and Fog."
Jolie starts work in early fall on the Clint Eastwood-directed "The Changeling" for Universal, Imagine and Malpaso. She would like to follow with "Atlas Shrugged," long a passion project for her.
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 11:08 (sixteen years ago) link
this is madness. i haven't read it, just the wiki entry, but it sounds no less insane than that l ron hubbard book john travolta did.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 11:22 (sixteen years ago) link
"this is why i make the blockbusters," said jolie, "so that i can do important work like this"
actually she didn't say that but i bet that's what she thinks
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 12:09 (sixteen years ago) link
she's also doing that daniel pearl movie with the awful title
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 12:11 (sixteen years ago) link
more like "Atlas Sucked" amirite?
― Heave Ho, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 12:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I can't wait until she finishes doing that movie that came out two months ago.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 12:14 (sixteen years ago) link
not out in uk yet
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link
we're counting the hours
As you should be.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 12:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't wait for this! The thing I love about Atlas Shrugged is that it's so over-the-top and ridiculous. Therefore the movie will be hilarious and awesome.
Something bothers me about this sentence: "Perelman's latest film, the Uma Thurman-Evan Rachel Wood starrer "In Bloom," premieres at the Toronto Film Festival." That something is the phrase "the Uma Thurman-Evan Rachel Wood starrer." How hard is it to use real words?
― Maria, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:22 (sixteen years ago) link
well you know, it's Variety
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:25 (sixteen years ago) link
"I was fascinated by Rand's Hitler's book. It was original and provocative," Wallace told Daily Variety.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i love var-speak
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:27 (sixteen years ago) link
yes, maria! that sent. bothered me so much i didn't read teh rest of the article.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:36 (sixteen years ago) link
lol varnacular xpost
― tehresa, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought Angelina wanted to help the world :(
― humansuit, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link