― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 1 December 2003 15:49 (twenty years ago) link
1976: Ayn Rand / Jim Henson / Sidney Nolan / Yoko Ono online discussion forum
http://www.arpanetdialogues.net/vol-iv/
― Milton Parker, Monday, 5 March 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
the other ones are no less astounding btw
― Milton Parker, Monday, 5 March 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
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.
Why would I want to talk to him. What has he achieved or trying to achieve.
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.
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.
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.
Not yet anyway.
― Milton Parker, Monday, 5 March 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― brownie, Monday, 5 March 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
Jim Henson would have made a great ILXor, it seems.
― Flagpost Sitta (Phil D.), Monday, 5 March 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
too bad it's fictional :(http://www.arpanetdialogues.net/disclaimer/
― 1staethyr, Monday, 5 March 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
thanks for finding that.
― Milton Parker, Monday, 5 March 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
i was about to say, this doesn't scan as very real to me
― goole, Monday, 5 March 2012 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2011/06/the-fountainhead-of-satanism
― it's smdh time in America (will), Monday, 5 March 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Milton Parker, Monday, 5 March 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Boo-Yaa Too Rough International Boo-Yaa Empire (Merdeyeux), Monday, 5 March 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
Aw, bummed it's not real. Gave me a new screen name though.
― On the sidelines in a trash can grumping (Dan Peterson), Monday, 5 March 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Totes le Héros (contenderizer), Monday, 5 March 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
"grumping" did not seem like a Randian word to me.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 5 March 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
Henson "laughing out loud" stuck out immediately.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 5 March 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 January 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/ayn-rand-reviews-childrens-movies
― 龜, Thursday, 18 December 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
“The Muppets Take Manhattan”
This movie was a disappointment. The Muppets do not take Manhattan at all. They merely visit it. —No stars.
A+
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 18 December 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
Yes, the first few are good as well.
― Vic Perry, Thursday, 18 December 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
Her fiction is much funnier, if unintentional.
― Threat Assessment Division (I M Losted), Thursday, 18 December 2014 21:05 (nine years ago) link