― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link
http://thumb2.shutterstock.com/photos3/thumb_small/10087/10087,1132560086,1.jpg
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark Co (Markco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link
US view on rand seems to = omg this is serious philosophy!!!
― Mark Co (Markco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link
enough undergraduates do to make it rather disturbing.
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link
Atlas!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
yeah the few rand fans i knew in high school and college all came to her via 2112.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link
-- 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.
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― ath (ath), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Paul Eater (eater), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link
x-post
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link
(xx-post)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Coach Dave (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link
The Atlasphere: Ayn Rand Dating & Networking
― ath (ath), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― ath (ath), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
OTM. I've a few objectivist friends and in each of their cases they were already predisposed to a high degree of self-centeredness and isolation. Sara has done this frightening self-indoctrination thing where she's read Atlas & Fountainhead twice a year for the last 8 years.
Her political philosophy is "as long as the government let's me close the door to my house and leaves me the fuck alone, I don't care what else it does (to you or anyone else)."
― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link
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 :(
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 12:54 (five years ago) link
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
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 12:56 (five years ago) link
Don't know if Zack's looking for notes but Tom Cruise was born to play Roark
― Karius whisper (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 12:57 (five years ago) link
nailed it
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 12:58 (five years ago) link
Arm0nd's review is legitimately going to be a masterpiece and is actually already written.
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 12:59 (five years ago) link
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
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 13:01 (five years ago) link
isn't vince vaughn a big libertarian shithead? he'd probably kill to play roark
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 13:03 (five years ago) link
Surely Snyder could have a Dr. Parnassus-esque rotating cast of alpha dudes playing the role.
― I really like the acting, dialogue and especially the scenes (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 13:08 (five years ago) link
I wonder if Jon Hamm would do it.
― jmm, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link
Gary Cooper will be tough to beat
― Karius whisper (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 13:50 (five years ago) link
It'll almost certainly be Cavill, won't it. I can feel it.
― I really like the acting, dialogue and especially the scenes (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 13:52 (five years ago) link
John Cena
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link
I could never hack the Cooper version w/out MST3K, let alone reading Rand
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
but the man was born to play fascists tbf
― Karius whisper (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 13:57 (five years ago) link
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.
― jmm, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link
― 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.
― I really like the acting, dialogue and especially the scenes (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
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.
― I really like the acting, dialogue and especially the scenes (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
Or, at the very least, a dog-eared copy of the book with many instances of 'Roark Ryan' throughout.
― I really like the acting, dialogue and especially the scenes (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 15:39 (five years ago) link
― 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.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 12 August 2018 03:35 (five years ago) link
Strangely, there was only one in that group of a couple dozen youtubes that featured a person of color, at least that I noticed.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 12 August 2018 03:51 (five years ago) link