― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:27 (twenty years ago) link
We are free to screw you over.
― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:33 (twenty years ago) link
I wish I wasn't weak and helped people.
― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:40 (twenty years ago) link
― isadora (isadora), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:42 (twenty years ago) link
― nabiscothingy, Monday, 15 December 2003 01:52 (twenty years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:58 (twenty years ago) link
― man, Monday, 15 December 2003 01:59 (twenty years ago) link
I remember reading about that one that says altruism debases a human being (the Virtue Of Selfishness, or something) and being mildly interested.
― Fug (Ferg), Monday, 15 December 2003 02:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Vic (Vic), Monday, 15 December 2003 02:14 (twenty years ago) link
her appeal nowadays is sorta like rage against the machine, only for young republicans.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 15 December 2003 02:17 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 15 December 2003 02:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 15 December 2003 02:20 (twenty years ago) link
did anyone see that hbo movie with helen mirren as rand?
― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 15 December 2003 02:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan I., Monday, 15 December 2003 03:16 (twenty years ago) link
If you want to read her fiction, try Anthem, a short book that can be read in 45 minutes. Should be enough.
― fletrejet, Monday, 15 December 2003 03:32 (twenty years ago) link
Then, I say, "Keep looking up... DEEZ NUTZ!!!"
― Star Hustler, Monday, 15 December 2003 04:56 (twenty years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 15 December 2003 05:25 (twenty years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 15 December 2003 05:26 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 15 December 2003 05:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 15 December 2003 05:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Cold Cobra, Monday, 15 December 2003 05:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 15 December 2003 06:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Prude (Prude), Monday, 15 December 2003 06:20 (twenty years ago) link
ok, for books to read, i like we the living because it was from a point when she wasn't like "raawr compassion is evil", and atlas shrugged because it has a random pirate.
― Maria (Maria), Monday, 15 December 2003 08:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 15 December 2003 08:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 15 December 2003 12:36 (twenty years ago) link
It worked!
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 15 December 2003 12:46 (twenty years ago) link
― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Monday, 15 December 2003 12:49 (twenty years ago) link
Had a longtime amphetamine prescription for "weight control"; it is believed that this may have influenced some of her later behavior and decision-making.
Does anyone know what the latter is a reference to? I'm having a Monday Morning, and could do with stories of Objectivists inviting Ayn to fancy dinners, and her doing the hokey-cokey on the table.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 15 December 2003 12:54 (twenty years ago) link
― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 15 December 2003 12:56 (twenty years ago) link
― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Monday, 15 December 2003 12:57 (twenty years ago) link
If I want to read fiction by swivel-eyed maniacs, I'll stick w/Wyndham Lewis, thx. One of the few times I actually got scared on teh intarweb was when I looked at this deranged robotick rand fansite, and got the ph34r. What if these people find out I'm looking at their site? Can they find me, and hunt my ass down? It was like the pod-people in "...er argc, that film. The one where people come out of pods, and take over. Anyway, I suppose her whole life story & stuff in kind of interesting, but her followers - ick. God help us all if this thread gets googled pt 217.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 15 December 2003 13:04 (twenty years ago) link
(and of course let me know if anyone googles for "Ayn Rand porn")
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 15 December 2003 13:16 (twenty years ago) link
Kate, we had this at our school too! Even though I thought a lot of the ideas in the book were pretty repulsive I entered anyway because I was desperate for money -- I wasn't exactly surprised I didn't win because it was torture just writing the essay.
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 15 December 2003 13:44 (twenty years ago) link
― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Monday, 15 December 2003 13:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 15 December 2003 13:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 December 2003 14:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 15 December 2003 14:55 (twenty years ago) link
When I was in college, my roommate dated a Randian goth who called his band "We the Living".
― Kerry (dymaxia), Monday, 15 December 2003 15:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 15 December 2003 15:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 15 December 2003 15:43 (twenty years ago) link
I hate to generalize, but Objectivism seems to appeal to mousy women and geeky men, NOT "alpha" men and women.
This is not so much a philosophy as it is a cult .
x-post : I know, "Randian goth" - it's just ridiculous.
― Kerry (dymaxia), Monday, 15 December 2003 15:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 15 December 2003 15:51 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 15 December 2003 16:36 (twenty years ago) link
Hokey Cokey.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 15 December 2003 17:54 (twenty years ago) link
― don weiner, Monday, 15 December 2003 18:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Kerry (dymaxia), Monday, 15 December 2003 18:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Neil Willett (Neil Willett), Monday, 15 December 2003 19:11 (twenty years ago) link
Thought it funny that I saw that just after having read through this thread, since it was a couple days after when i came across the paragraph concerned.
― Stevolende, Friday, 27 September 2013 10:48 (ten years ago) link
Ex-army sergeant Daniel McEvoy is ready to say goodbye New Jersey's lawless underworld and concentrate on his new life as club owner and bona fide boyfriend. But when he's abducted and driven into the Hudson by a vengeful crime boss, he realises that the New Jersey underworld isn't ready to say goodbye to him.
If Dan is to survive, he will have to evade bad guys on both sides of the law and find the missing aunt who once taught him how to handle boobs.
i have no idea but on reading this blurb i wdn't necessarily take the protagonist's thoughts as authorial endorsement
― how do i shot cwmbran? (Noodle Vague), Friday, 27 September 2013 12:33 (ten years ago) link
if Rand wd appeal to anybody it wd be lunk-headed rugged individual action heroes
― how do i shot cwmbran? (Noodle Vague), Friday, 27 September 2013 12:34 (ten years ago) link
thisfuckingguy.jpg
http://www.forbes.com/sites/harrybinswanger/2013/09/17/give-back-yes-its-time-for-the-99-to-give-back-to-the-1/
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 8 November 2013 22:12 (ten years ago) link
harry binswanger
― durianlychee (imago), Friday, 8 November 2013 22:18 (ten years ago) link
binswanger
― durianlychee (imago), Friday, 8 November 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link
bins wanger
harry 'the bins wanger' binswanger
A+ trolling Harry "I defend laissez-faire capitalism, using Ayn Rand's Objectivism" Binswanger
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Friday, 8 November 2013 22:22 (ten years ago) link
so p much trolling is just this guy's thing?
Insider Trading Is A Right: Don't Shackle The Knowledge-Seekers
― JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 8 November 2013 22:35 (ten years ago) link
trolling is his Randian objectivist right PS. there's no such thing as society u dummies
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Friday, 8 November 2013 22:41 (ten years ago) link
lmao @ Don't Shackle The Knowledge-Seekers
― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Friday, 8 November 2013 22:52 (ten years ago) link
sounds like a Rush song title
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 8 November 2013 22:54 (ten years ago) link
By-Tor and the Knowledge Seekers
for god's sake won't someone please think of the knowledge seekers
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Friday, 8 November 2013 23:00 (ten years ago) link
Hah before I was forwarded to that Forbes article I had to read a quote from Che Guevara.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 9 November 2013 04:03 (ten years ago) link
i was just sitting in a restaurant with some people i didn't know, and the girl next to me started spouting some shite, and I said 'That sounds like some serious Ayn Rand shite to me' and she said 'OMG SHE'S ONE OF MY HEROES'. Later she said with a beam on her face 'I'm one of Cameron's babes.'
― Fizzles, Saturday, 14 December 2013 21:31 (ten years ago) link
dinner voyage into abjection
― veneer timber (imago), Saturday, 14 December 2013 21:42 (ten years ago) link
Salient thread 4 U, Fizz:
Popular delusions and our duty to dispel them
― Branwell Bell, Saturday, 14 December 2013 21:44 (ten years ago) link
it wasn't great, imago.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 14 December 2013 21:46 (ten years ago) link
oh wait, bb (gr8 display name btw) i need to see this thread.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 14 December 2013 21:47 (ten years ago) link
You are the only person who's got the reference so far. :-/
― Branwell Bell, Saturday, 14 December 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
lol I was just reading this piece on Rand yesterday.
It doesn't mock the whole thing as much as I'd like it to.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 14 December 2013 21:51 (ten years ago) link
he's a really interesting character. not all unsympathetic iirr. (became mildly obsessed when I was abt 20).
― Fizzles, Saturday, 14 December 2013 22:48 (ten years ago) link
Half Cornish, you know! Also ginger. Patron saint of talented youths who squandered their vast potential!
Was gonna start a Pick A Bronte: Poll! thread on ILB but, um, apparently this is the ILX Bronte thread:
the Bronte sisters Porn book
Hmmm.
― Branwell Bell, Saturday, 14 December 2013 23:08 (ten years ago) link
AR and megan mccardle are the two chicks libertarians dig. see, they're not sexist
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
oh and veronique de rugy. tax cuts pay for themselves
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:04 (ten years ago) link
http://www.arpanetdialogues.net/vol-iv/
― Mordy , Friday, 10 January 2014 21:56 (ten years ago) link
I am surprised to be in such a conversation. It feels like a deliberate test.
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:59 (ten years ago) link
It's not real.
― everything, Friday, 10 January 2014 22:04 (ten years ago) link
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/04/so-reagan-signs-into-this-chatroom.html
― everything, Friday, 10 January 2014 22:07 (ten years ago) link
nothing is real but john galt
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 10 January 2014 22:12 (ten years ago) link
well known, from wikipedia:
Rand underwent surgery for lung cancer in 1974 after decades of heavy smoking.[88] In 1976, she retired from writing her newsletter and, despite her initial objections, was persuaded to allow Evva Pryor, a consultant from her attorney's office, to sign her up for Social Security and Medicare.[89] During the late 1970s her activities within the Objectivist movement declined, especially after the death of her husband on November 9, 1979.[90] One of her final projects was work on a never-completed television adaptation of Atlas Shrugged.[91]Rand died of heart failure on March 6, 1982, at her home in New York City,[92] and was interred in the Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York.[93] Rand's funeral was attended by some of her prominent followers, including Alan Greenspan. A six-foot floral arrangement in the shape of a dollar sign was placed near her casket
Rand died of heart failure on March 6, 1982, at her home in New York City,[92] and was interred in the Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York.[93] Rand's funeral was attended by some of her prominent followers, including Alan Greenspan. A six-foot floral arrangement in the shape of a dollar sign was placed near her casket
question: you would think that she, of all people, would have the motivation to not accept social security or medicare. so she must have been broke? i always just assumed she was rich because she wrote best selling books and traveled widely and hung out with a bunch of rich assholes. did she really whittle away her life savings so much that she had to accept help from the evil altruistic govt?
― Karl Malone, Friday, 14 March 2014 22:34 (ten years ago) link
A six-foot floral arrangement in the shape of a dollar sign was placed near her casket
gangsta
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 14 March 2014 23:01 (ten years ago) link
A broke ass person memorialized by a giant dollar sign floral arrangement vs a richass mofo with a giant floral cross in a church, we live in a crazy place
― actually high comedy (Hunt3r), Friday, 14 March 2014 23:08 (ten years ago) link
Rand's funeral was attended by some of her prominent followers, including Alan Greenspan
http://www.internetweekly.org/images/alan_greenspan_poster.jpg
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 14 March 2014 23:12 (ten years ago) link
Needs a Sgt. Pepper parody
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 14 March 2014 23:24 (ten years ago) link
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/11825700_10153099759181475_682204531232852883_n.jpg?oh=fab9d63f7fef8d1ec06fcf9f73cfbeb1&oe=564D470D
― five six and (man alive), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 01:24 (nine years ago) link
http://billmoyers.com/story/media-morality-neighbors-cow/
neal gabler otm
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 16 December 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-galton-wanted-libertarian-paradise-in-anarchapulco-he-got-bullets-instead
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 05:20 (five years ago) link
would crosspost to bitcoins thread if I could find it
john galton
― adam the (abanana), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 05:29 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAq-VzeXoAAsWX-?format=jpg
― hedonic treadmill class action (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link