hahahahahaha Atlas Shrugged is being made into a movie! with Angelina Jolie! [EDIT: actually not anymore! oh well!]

FFS, really? Paranoia over the Kennedy assasination and being cranky about Nixon was almost universal for his and subsiquent generations. How was Natural Born Killers a far-left movie?

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US view on rand seems to = omg this is serious philosophy!!!

but based on the number of people i know under 40 who call themselves libertarians, i won't be surprised if some form of libertarianism is the next big wave in american politics. it's what underlies a lot of the "western strategy" being considered by both parties right now. so a big rand revival could be in the offing.

enough undergraduates do to make it rather disturbing.

My high school loved the canon - two Shakespeares a year from 9th grade on, American novelists junior year (Hawthorne, Gatsby, et al.), European and 20th Century world senior year (Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Camus, et al. plus Milton and Dante). I can't imagine any of my teachers handing out Rand with a straight face (or finding time to teach a 1000-page novel).

xp - I knew a gay, Mormon Randroid. He moved to Manhattan a year ago, so he could be part of the Chelsea boy crew Morbs speaks of.

Atlas!

yeah the few rand fans i knew in high school and college all came to her via 2112.

-- A-ron Hubbard (Hurtingchie...), October 19th, 2006.

Not very extreme of her.

-- Laurel (sininspac...), October 19th, 2006.

Well, she got all set to do it but then called her brother to have him come "say goodbye." Obviously the brother realized what was going on and stopped it and she was briefly checked in to an institution, as she was on a few other occasions.

In my college freshman-year facebook (circa 1991) The Fountainhead was the most popular "favorite book" behind the Bible. I don't think the academy takes it, or any pop-dogma type book that seriously, but people sure seem to.

as far as i know that's already happening. there's a lot of suburban youths of voting age who are disconnected from the rest of society (or at least any social diversity one might find living in stripmall subdivisions that tend to homogenize class and race) that feel like their taxes are wasted on programs they don't have any use for, and they're burdened by RESTRICTIVE LAWS against drugs and guns and helmets. combine this (what i guess you could call a randian sense of independence) with an already growing athiest sentiment that severs any potential affiliation with the republican right, as well as a contempt for what they see as a "bullshit two party system," and the libertarians emerge as the new conservative party for an upper-middle class 18-25 generation further from the working poor than ever.

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The Atlasphere: Ayn Rand Dating & Networking

I was prepared to physically carry you to this thread if you didn't stumble upon it yourself.

As a fan of massive lulz this is great news

The original movie is pretty excellent if you've never seen it

It always irritates me to go to a bookstore and see Ayn Rand shelved with the "Classics". She's just so irretrievable bad.

Black cover Penguin classic :(

I was prepared to physically carry you to this thread if you didn't stumble upon it yourself.

i felt a great disturbance in the luminerferous aether and was irresistably compelled to investigate

Don't know if Zack's looking for notes but Tom Cruise was born to play Roark

nailed it

Arm0nd's review is legitimately going to be a masterpiece and is actually already written.

i just can't wait to see how snyder, who is perhaps second only to michael bay in the cinematic-adhd stakes, handles endless scenes of extremely tedious dialogue

isn't vince vaughn a big libertarian shithead? he'd probably kill to play roark

Surely Snyder could have a Dr. Parnassus-esque rotating cast of alpha dudes playing the role.

I wonder if Jon Hamm would do it.

Gary Cooper will be tough to beat

It'll almost certainly be Cavill, won't it. I can feel it.

John Cena

I could never hack the Cooper version w/out MST3K, let alone reading Rand

but the man was born to play fascists tbf

Courtroom scene: Roark monologues for two minutes before Zack gets bored. Cut to zoom-in shot of a jar of urine. Cut to Roark dynamiting the courthouse with all the socialists inside.

John Cena

― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Tuesday, May 29, 2018 8:53 AM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Misread this as 'Jon Secada' and nearly sprayed a mouthful of coffee across my monitor.

It'll almost certainly be Cavill, won't it. I can feel it.

I think I'd be willing to wager a good deal of money that there's a videotape in existence containing a homemade adaptation of The Fountainhead starring Paul Ryan.

Or, at the very least, a dog-eared copy of the book with many instances of 'Roark Ryan' throughout.

It always irritates me to go to a bookstore and see Ayn Rand shelved with the "Classics". She's just so irretrievable bad.

― A is for (Aimless), Monday, May 28, 2018 10:49 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Really she belongs in self-help. Self-help for complete assholes who want to feel ok about being assholes.

When the first Atlas Shrugged film came out they asked for fans to say "I am john galt" to add to a dvd extra. The results are some of the best, most strange youtube videos you'll ever see pic.twitter.com/lVoSSSyQ0h

— Cruiskeen Lawnmower Deth (@NoChorus) August 11, 2018

Strangely, there was only one in that group of a couple dozen youtubes that featured a person of color, at least that I noticed.