Watching this in 2023. It may not have been so obvious how accurate she was in 1981 (or 1957). But, her forecast on how this would unfold with precision is remarkable. The warnings presented time and time again have become our reality.
Yeah, dog eat dog capitalism based on self interest. Unlike the Middle ages feudalism, the capitalists actually use socialism, paid for by the Middle Class, to become the masters of the world. Rand is a typical eastern logic Russian. They all think like her, me, me and me. She made a living by running down the needy on social and government funded programs. Then when the time came jumped on Social Security and Medicaid. She is nothing but a world class phony ( as most Godless people are in the end).
Within six months, she was gone. March 1982. She was in poor health here and frustrated by the picture taking. Bless her for standing up for the heroes.
@Henry Emrich I'd say she was not pathetic, but was trying to avoid being distracted by the photography. Saying, "I'm too old for that," was a politeness. The Nathaniel Branden affair is the least interesting aspect of her life. Her husband wasn't an innocent. He made his choices to stay, to be supported by her, and to move from California, where he had a happy life, to NYC where he did not. Choices, choices.
@Henry Emrich >> Frank O'Connor and Barbara Brandon would descend the elevator together while Rand and Nathaniel Brandon spent time alone together in her apt. She was age 50. He was 25. Rand herself had said that the urge to rationalize is more potent than the sexual urge. She rationalized the affair to make it acceptable. She was very angry when Brandon broke it off and she retaliated. It's a cautionary tail. Her ideas, in the main, will definitely make this a better world. She was human and made mistakes. But we should be admirers, not apostles. Many diehards objected to both Brandons' books. They had a 20 year relationship with her. That does give them some foothold.
Including being just as much of a hypocrite as everyone else. Like when she championed reason and then went out and had an affair that ended and then she decided she had to have him back after ruining both hers and his marriages and then when she was rejected by him to come back she cut him out of her will and then cut out the woman he was married too because of her butt hurt feelings. She was a very smart lady no doubt, but she didn't even live by her own principals because no one can live their lives devoid of emotions and ignoring your feelings.
It is so sad and tragic that her narrowly judgmental and self-justifying morality affected , and was apparently embraced by, so many. There are other and better rational views on integrating freedoms with fairness within enterprise.
@@fungalspore probably mostly because she exposed both the unworkability and hypocrisy of altruism - a disease which easily overwhelms the average sheeple who would sell their Mother, if need be, to be acknowledged as virtuous without having to actually BE virtuous.
@GMBCATASTROPHE Georgism is Marxist ideology and Ayn Rand has nothing to do with Israel. The Ayn Rand Institute is pro-Israel because it consists of morons who don't do their research. The times Rand spoke on the subject of Israel she openly made presumptions which are provably false and there's nothing wrong with doing that.
"The mystics are constantly crying appeals for your pity, your compassion, your help to the less fortunate yet they are condemning you for all the qualities of character that make you able to help them."
I wonder if 'The Mystics' don't represent her disowned, projected qualities of The Devouring Mother. Castration of The Hero, with simultaneous expectations of being served by them.
Rest in peace Ayn, your work changed my life and I'm a better person because of it. I only wish you were still with us so I could shake your hand and thank you in person!
As an obstensibly permanent member of the "Working Poor", I fully concur with all she says. I will probably never own a yacht, but I will be damned if I curse someone who does. Reality is what's up.
truth, she is burning forever tormented in hellfire. may The Almighty have mercy on her soul. we can know now that she realizes LOVE IN ALL IT'S FORMS IS EVERYTHING .
"It is only when and if a country establishes censorship, that the men of the mind should retire. But we're not in that stage, and I don't think we will reach it." (36:15) My dears, we're about there...
... the Spirit, incarnating into a body, is not only incorporated by the body, it is encapsulated and imprisoned by every demand, dictated by every adictive urge and impulse, which is everything and all that there is in existence. There is nothing else or any other reason to live for...
Ayn had a hate for communism and so do I. Her book, “ Capitalism the unknown ideal.” Is a favourite of mine. I believe honesty is the only way for capitalism to succeed, but communism no matter what you do with it, it will never be what truly works for the people and we can see it results, over the last 100 years. I don’t know why she is an atheist and why she feels the way she does about many things in her life. But she understood that the USA was built on a great system that lead the world and she could see the shift taking place in the U S. She lived in Russia and knew the effects of communism. I believe in God and understand that human nature is more evil then good. We will always take the easiest route and if we think we can get things for nothing, then offer something for free and watch the line form. A true Christian Society always works best for the people, that is when mankind realizes he is accountable for his deeds to God and God only. Sound like a sermon but it’s not.lol. But when I was a boy I truly think most men and women felt that way and knew where to go when they or we where facing a dilemma as a individual or as a nation. That the way I feel about it.
Ignorance of God is nearly perfect now in 2020, and ignorance of this fact is the most serious ignorance, but the wall of ignorance has been weaponized, to keep God out altogether. But only after tragedy after disaster after debacle will any minds open enough to look for The Answer. The conditions we are under are exactly those to enable us to build a paradise, btw.
Because she realizes that capitalism...while having many benefits ..at some point...inevitably produces situations that will meet as an opponent of Christian ideals.and morality. Because Jesus said " love thy neighbor as thyself"...and true capitalism...in her view..works best when we are not compelled to action for anyone else if it doesnt benefit ourselves in some direct way. This is an example of why she has no faith in any Judeo Christian God. But there are other examples
@@jimberlygridder183 What she has to say about free enterprise is so true, and yet the ruthless way many uncreative capitalists more or less rape nature doesn't look so good to me. But, I can't refute what she says about letting the entrepreneurs have their inspirations and creativities. No government interference, if ever that can for one time happen.
Humans are freeloaders and barely give lipservice of thanks to "intelligent design" as they use biomimicry and yet make a cheap products where a well made one with lovely design elements that stands the test of time would be good for all, not out of altruism but of pride in quality and desire to wisely use resources and create less waste. A true powerful 'dictator' as you think God is would not allow the humans such great freedom BUT "he will bring to ruin those ruining the earth" HIS earth! Should He watch earth's destruction and allow mankind's distain and foolishness? That would be hatred for man indeed. In fact it is only when they attack His people that he says "enough"! It is soon...
Ayn Rand was an amazing woman. She was and still is inspiring people to remove their knowledge blinders and explore deeper thought. I have been reading her works for over 20 years. Her philosophy has helped me in so many ways. I am so thankful for her courage and knowledge. The books that most changed me was The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged
I attended a talk she gave at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston in 1972. The topic was "The Anti-Industrial Revolution". What she spoke of then is applicable today.
What a brilliant mind. "As far as the feminist movement is concerned I am a male chauvinist. Proudly." "There is hope so long as there is one man left living on Earth." "The best way to help the poor is not to be one of them."
Chauvinism is merely militance. It has become commonly misunderstood as boorish hateful behavior. If anyone is chauvinistic it’s the feminist. As such more men should be chauvinistic. Otherwise we will continue to be willing victims.
It's amazing how as I watch this on Feb. 27, 2022 the things she says are still so relevant today. Especially with the media. I wonder how much of the series she completed writing before she passed away. The Atlas Shrugged movie series was an admirable effort to getting the philosophy more into the main stream but the way series are done now on streaming services would be a much better way to let this story play out. A period piece would be great however, an idea to make it modern and possibly reach more youth of today would be to replace the "Railroad" with "Airlines."
The importance of IDEAS: ----- I was introduced to Ayn Rand (1905-1982) through her book, "PHILOSOPHY: WHO NEEDS IT", a collection of her essays. According to Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy, but which one to have: rational, conscious, and therefore practical; or contradictory, unidentified, and ultimately lethal. ------ As I recall, she said here that humans live their lives based on ideas. There is nothing more valuable than a great idea, and nothing more destructive than a bad idea.
I love her ideas and stubborn, prickly personality. Fountainhead was awesome. Love her writing. One awesome person. Well spoken, well read. Such a sweetheart.
... living, for the sake of another, is thee most contemptible, self distructive position, ever. Jesus, supposedly taught and preached that loving ones neighbour as thyself, was the ideal position in which to be. And putting oneself aside didn't mean self annihilation. Our Love IS ONLY Ever Equal To Our Humility And Our Gratitude For The Confidence And The Prowess That Stabilises Our LOVE... GOD BLESS EVERYONE BLESS EVERYTHING ALWAYS AMEN... signed by... the ROCK OF PHAGES...
@@pereraddison932 Yet the mantra of Jesuit institutions of learning is "men and women for others." This made no sense to me then, neither does it make any sense now.
What if my morality of selfishness wanted to rape your women? She cannot answer this simple question. Morality comes from God and the Bible. That’s why America is the greatest country in the world. Fighting selfish dictatorships and communism.
@Man, State and Memetics and throughout the majority of human history crime rates were high and most regime maintained army's primarily for putting down revolts.
Thanks, Reverend Hicks, for explaining the Women of Grace teaching which, as I received it, goes: When you read something, (1) read it in the light of grace, (2) reflect on it, and (3) revolve it, marking its aspects of truth, beauty, and application. All time, in the company of loving personalities, gives us, I feel, a sense of more wholeness. If we consider motion pictures, along with radio, television, and books, merely another body of ideas, one need not stop at enjoying them, yes? Please say more.
Homage to Ayn Rand Second-handers misrepresent you And second-raters resent you But were your books banned And there were no Ayn Rand We would have been forced to invent you. -One who knew Ayn Rand personally
The real issue is that our society allows the worst of these people to break the law while meeting out disproportional punishments to everyone else for lesser crimes. Also our public administrations and public property are under attack by private business interests. The money printers are absolutely above any jurisdiction. How does that work? Once your government is betraying the public trust in favour of profiteers they will come for your private property. By the people for the people.
The mystery of life is the experience of discoveriing the truth in the inidividual life. Altruism is a gift from whatever is experienced as God and too many don't believe the real source of their own gift. There are others who believe the best life is lived by learning to love learning and love the work that needs to be done for others.
@@janetwhite7786 Nice to see we are on the same page. But I'm no Rand fan, because I think she's branding a satanic philosophy that has a corrosive effect on communities. It's been a potent negative influence on my life and relationships, and I only recently realized it.
I enjoyed these films, Atlas Shrugged, parts 1, 2, and 3: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged_(film_series) They caught the essence of her ideas, I thought.
A great American thinker! Suffering here from bad production, mainly the terrible P.A. system. At first it feeds back and then hums. My goodness, that can fixed. And then the noise ( her competition). I wish she had a great production to explain her Objectivism here. Thank God that there are great humans shaping our human condition like Ayn Rand. Even if she may not agree with my statement “ Thank God”. Maximum Positivity
On universities - It is a moral crime to support ideas with which you disagree! This should be applied to politics - do not pay taxes to those with whom you disagree. This would soon change the outlook of the politicians to appreciate who pays their salaries.
I am very interesting in listen Ayn Rand , anytime because she had a lot of knowledge about the fails of the socialism but the volume of the video is so low that I can't hear well.
33:00 "If we remain free... we will see great things on television." She was right beyond her wildest dreams, look at the explosion of "television" on the internet!
I just came from the Mike Wallace interview with Ms. Rand and was bothered by my feeling that it was more of a debate than an interview. I felt that she should have been asked more questions about her philosophy which could describe a working model perhaps. I was pleased to find this video so that I might understand her position better. As soon as she asked the question about which activity in the form of 'job' had the greatest beneficial effect on society I quickly answered the question in my head before she got to her own answer. Her answer was "the scientist...". I found her answer plain old hard to believe. My answer was "the farmer...". I thought it was obvious. Then she went on to describe altruism in ways I had never heard associated with the word. Since I am a fallible being and fully aware of it, I listened on hoping to learn the connection between altruism and cannibalism and altruism and businessmen. I admit that I stopped watching this video because I felt lost. I won't say that "she lost me when she said this or that". I will say that "I soon felt lost when I failed to understand her". I believe that she went on to define 'altruism' as a lifestyle practiced by businessmen who were motivated by making the world a better place as in "easier to live." This was the basis she used for describing businessmen as altruistic. Somehow I always thought that business was motivated primarily by the promise of great profit. Surely a product that made life easier for a great number of people could be considered a better prospect for bringing in greater profit. I don't see her connection of businessmen to altruism. I don't even see humans as capable of acting altruistically, let alone living altruistically. The Mike Wallace interview left me curious. This video left me struggling and unable to understand her.
Farming is a science, it's agricultural science. Imagine where we would be without the scientific achievement that optimized agricultural practices for high quality, high yields, climate and pest resistance, etc. Even the very first farmers applied the scientific process through trial and error.
She's not describing altruism as much as she is highlighting what she thinks is the hypocrisy -- or contradiction -- of a business designed to earn a profit only to give it away to those who didn't earn it. By the way, if you're curious enough to really understand the truth about Ayn Rand, you'll find that she is a confused, troubled, hypocritical, evil woman -- and a poor writer.
A truly horrendous human being, with a ridiculous concept of society. This person has never seen the business end of a shovel who denigrated the working class her vision of society is so ill thought out monstrous she cannot be raken seriously by any decent human being
She convinces me, when it comes to our not showing significant explicit (by enjoying, the business community's contributions, we express a general appreciation) appreciation for the Big Daddy business man whose net profitable work produces the wherewithal for our projects in all other fields, including but not limited to democratic self-government, scientific exploration, the Internet and other mass communications, the arts, and transportation. I would love to have a national holiday which celebrates the intelligent, creative businessmen of our world.
Ayanna Rand- I am quite influenced by her since 1972 when I first read Fountain Head. Since then I have a collection of her most Novels and writings. Geat thinker. I found it close to one of the yogas contained in Bhagwatgita I.e. Karmayoga. Great.....
I agree with her in most of what she lectured about. It is impressive that was able to see that the press back then in 1981 or before was leaning to the left. Back then I didn't detect that.
Super smart and right about a lot of things...I disagree with her about abortion. She must not have thought of the unborn as living humans. Sadly. Such a brutal and evil practice, especially in these days of UNLIMITED (and free) birth control options.
Humans have bodies. The whole purpose of pregnancy is to create a human body. If the cells near conception were just a less mature version of an infant maybe I would see your point but as it stands in early stages of pregnancy there is no skeletal system, no nervous system, etc. All those parts have to be created. So no a zygote or an embryo or a fetus is not an actual human. It's a potential human.
While she's being filmed she asks photographers to stop taking her picture, perhaps the picture taking of her just plainly irritated her and had nothing to do with the taking of her picture, despite that to me she is my hero, she is the Aristotle of greater knowledge and of modern times.
@@SunnyDaysRFun Thanks for your quick reply. You could read Aristotle's Politics, chapter 1, parts 1-4 and 8-10. Aristotle saw an embryo of capitalism and was able to describe it based on that. Few (orthodox) economists appreciate it, I think it is key to understanding capitalism.
for years ..since my -teen life when I was asked what do I think about people who do own business and are rich (back when I was living in communist country) I said that WE SHOULD NAME EVERY SINGLE STREET AFTER THESE PEOPLE who in reality gave a chance to others to make a living ...to give them a chance to put a bread on a table ..and I still stay by my old statement
Objectivism is like the Laffer curve - extremely vague. Laffer never seems to tell us what the optimum point of taxation should be nor even how it could be determined. Why doesn't he tell us? I don't know, but maybe because so many factors go into the solution - it is not a simple exercise in logic and mathematics. Objectivism is the same. It is only convincing to people who don't care to dig into the assumptions or attempt to corroborate the specious arguments. People who are rigorous in arguments write that her arguments "lack clarity, fail to adequately support her premises, draw unsupported conclusions, and baldly state controversial theses as if they were self-evident facts".
@@johncaccioppo1142 ... oh, it's all there, and in plain sight. But obscenely, reinterpretedly obscured by every dictatorial authority that has ever been...
I’m glad English is my fluent second language, but I’d set captions on for me to print-screen her quotes and from 33:35 on for a while, captions became “frozen”, specially when she mentioned Russia.
17:54 “businessmen have good ground to despise philosophy as it is taught today, but it is taught that way because businessmen have abandoned the intellect to the lowest rank of the unemployables”
I don't think “businessmen " had ever the time and the interest in philosophy... many of them would be pretty unemployable ... by nature.. if they did not have public subsidies etc
Oh Howard. Your ideas have killed more people than lives raised out of poverty through capitalism (even China thrives from freeER markets). That must really piss you off, comrade.
Think about the post modern business man today. A banker is not an industrialist, and an industrialist is corrupt when they become a lobbyist advocating for monopoly. All have fallen victim to the consequence of the business man following their self interest. Altruism is a weakness from the materialist perspective, but when the scientific method is no better than a blind man’s cane, it is necessary for survival. Objectivism is narrow and only powerful when it stands on the shoulders of altruism.
Her favorite novelists Dostoyevsky and Hugo were both deeply religious men. Hugo would most aptly be called a mystic. Both of them advocated heavily for care of the poor. Interesting.
She didnt have to agree with them, if she loved their novels that's fine. The book I read by Dostoyevsky was A Friend of the Family. I had a hard time reading it, but I did enjoy it.
Video represents how you look in motion. An "unposed" photograph can cause the anxiety of looking like you're pulling a strange face while you're halfway through saying or expressing something.
@Midnight Lightning Radio Ah! Then her primary goal was to turn values upside down similar to the way Freud did. How clever of her to despise Communism and use it as a bouncing board.
@@ruskoruskov3086 Yes.After Ww2, The CIA brought in Nazi Eastern front intelligence officials, led by Reinhard Gehlen, for purposes of combatting the Soviets, and Rocket scientists, with Werner Von Braun, propulsion engineer for the V2 rocket program, as the front man, to work at NASA. The Americans called the secret, illegal, nazi impoortation operation "Operation Paperclip."
Her criticism of Russia's military weakness is spot on. Weak and loaded with defectors. Too bad she didn't get to live long enough to see the USSR fall.
How easily people, like you, forget that employers make it possible for employees to earn a living! Eliminate an employer and what do you also eliminate, an employee! Not only do liberals want to pay their employees higher wages, they want them to contribute their profits to the unemployed!
Altruism is not the same as collectivism and people who are altruistic do not hate those that work hard and make money for themselves. Collectivism may hate business men but altruistic people without thought of gain or expectancy of anything in return, give to other people freely because they care about the suffering of others. I am altruistic and I fight for the right of the businessmen or women to work hard and keep their money. I do not believe in wealth redistribution. I believe that man should care enough about each other to take care of each other but everyone has a choice to work hard or hardly work. There are some exceptions of course, of people who do to no fault of their own are in a place where they need help from others and there should be those willing to help them. We all have free will to be good to each other or selfish for ourselves. Unfortunately selfishness has become more and more prominent over the years. That's when you appeal to the public to be better to each other. You don't just take someone's hard earned money and distribute it to anyone who is broke.
Watching this in 2023. It may not have been so obvious how accurate she was in 1981 (or 1957). But, her forecast on how this would unfold with precision is remarkable. The warnings presented time and time again have become our reality.
It's uncanny how accurate this is!
Yeah, dog eat dog capitalism based on self interest. Unlike the Middle ages feudalism, the capitalists actually use socialism, paid for by the Middle Class, to become the masters of the world. Rand is a typical eastern logic Russian. They all think like her, me, me and me. She made a living by running down the needy on social and government funded programs. Then when the time came jumped on Social Security and Medicaid. She is nothing but a world class phony ( as most Godless people are in the end).
Within six months, she was gone. March 1982. She was in poor health here and frustrated by the picture taking. Bless her for standing up for the heroes.
@Henry Emrich I'd say she was not pathetic, but was trying to avoid being distracted by the photography. Saying, "I'm too old for that," was a politeness.
The Nathaniel Branden affair is the least interesting aspect of her life. Her husband wasn't an innocent. He made his choices to stay, to be supported by her, and to move from California, where he had a happy life, to NYC where he did not.
Choices, choices.
Henry Emrich
Personal attack, character assassination. She was a huge intellectual. Care to comment on our views rather than frivolities?
@Henry Emrich Who cares if she cheated on Frank O'Connor. Does that make any of her views less true?
@@hannahkirchner1656 That's right, O'Connor was being supported by her. No tears for him.
@Henry Emrich >> Frank O'Connor and Barbara Brandon would descend the elevator together while Rand and Nathaniel Brandon spent time alone together in her apt. She was age 50. He was 25. Rand herself had said that the urge to rationalize is more potent than the sexual urge. She rationalized the affair to make it acceptable. She was very angry when Brandon broke it off and she retaliated. It's a cautionary tail. Her ideas, in the main, will definitely make this a better world. She was human and made mistakes. But we should be admirers, not apostles. Many diehards objected to both Brandons' books. They had a 20 year relationship with her. That does give them some foothold.
My work is my work , to trade not to be given.
Thank you Ayn Rand for
All you have taught me and others.
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
― Edward R. Murrow
Yes
Murrow worked for CBS.
All governments are wolves.
A nation of wolfs would be a dying pack of lonely cannibals
Byron Church wolves
America is blessed to have Ayn Rand.
Blessed by whom ? By A God who wants to see the poor and the seek dying without any help from organized society?
@@dsgio7254 There is probably no god. We should not depend on him
Breathtaking. She’s the godmother of so many brilliant ideas.
She was a sociopath.
like what?
Including being just as much of a hypocrite as everyone else. Like when she championed reason and then went out and had an affair that ended and then she decided she had to have him back after ruining both hers and his marriages and then when she was rejected by him to come back she cut him out of her will and then cut out the woman he was married too because of her butt hurt feelings. She was a very smart lady no doubt, but she didn't even live by her own principals because no one can live their lives devoid of emotions and ignoring your feelings.
It is so sad and tragic that her narrowly judgmental and self-justifying morality affected , and was apparently embraced by, so many. There are other and better rational views on integrating freedoms with fairness within enterprise.
100%, OP. just ignore these fools.
Prescient and profound. She was one of the greatest heroes of the twentieth century.
really? why?
@@fungalspore probably mostly because she exposed both the unworkability and hypocrisy of altruism - a disease which easily overwhelms the average sheeple who would sell their Mother, if need be, to be acknowledged as virtuous without having to actually BE virtuous.
It's a shame not everyone in the world has seen this.
D'you hold this as the dearest truth?
Pity those souls
@GMBCATASTROPHE Georgism is Marxist ideology and Ayn Rand has nothing to do with Israel. The Ayn Rand Institute is pro-Israel because it consists of morons who don't do their research. The times Rand spoke on the subject of Israel she openly made presumptions which are provably false and there's nothing wrong with doing that.
@@boulevarda.aladetoyinbo4773 ..... Dear, Boulevard... Thee most sincerely, dearest, heart holdin' truth, of ALL... is... that... of... US-!!!... We, are IT-!!! Of, IT-!!! From, IT-!!! In, IT!!! ALL, of... IT-!!! AND... this. Is. IT... HEAR... NOW... 4 ever, and ever and EVERY-ONE, AMEN..
Desire leads to suffering. Amen.
I have a big photo of her at my room because she is the only human who have me so much knowledge and virtues. She’s my mother.
She speaks maddening crap...
"The mystics are constantly crying appeals for your pity, your compassion, your help to the less fortunate yet they are condemning you for all the qualities of character that make you able to help them."
you make a great rye bread toast
Perfect.
I wonder if 'The Mystics' don't represent her disowned, projected qualities of The Devouring Mother. Castration of The Hero, with simultaneous expectations of being served by them.
That people often hate you for helping them was my hardest lesson.
Helping people who hate you in return. Yep. That was the first part of my life. I do not recommend.
Rest in peace Ayn, your work changed my life and I'm a better person because of it. I only wish you were still with us so I could shake your hand and thank you in person!
she didnt believe in an afterlife
As an obstensibly permanent member of the "Working Poor", I fully concur with all she says. I will probably never own a yacht, but I will be damned if I curse someone who does. Reality is what's up.
@Kyrielle Atrinati I like looking at yachts. Anti-capitalists would destroy the prosperity needed for yachts.
She had a young that left her and got married, she was trying to destroy this young man. This woman was a BS artist.
Totally agree with you, Samual!
@Kyrielle Atrinati ... swap places and say that again-!!!
I was just saying this to my hub! I don't yearn for a yacht but I can admire someone else's!
She is one and only Iron Lady in this universe ....Sheer Respect for her ... Immortal Ayn Rand ....
... KNOT ...
A solid soul
truth, she is burning forever tormented in hellfire. may The Almighty have mercy on her soul. we can know now that she realizes LOVE IN ALL IT'S FORMS IS EVERYTHING .
@@lisawelch4926 are you there ?
This is how this world should be working if it’s going to survive. Knowledge is a beautiful thing.
JUST FUCKING WOOW, looking at all these old videos is just mind blowing.
"It is only when and if a country establishes censorship, that the men of the mind should retire. But we're not in that stage, and I don't think we will reach it." (36:15)
My dears, we're about there...
Its happening now so who is John Gault
JP's Photo-Vision Galt
And here we are...
Arrived there now :-(
... the Spirit, incarnating into a body, is not only incorporated by the body, it is encapsulated and imprisoned by every demand, dictated by every adictive urge and impulse, which is everything and all that there is in existence. There is nothing else or any other reason to live for...
Reverend Ike, "The best way to help the poor is not be one of them."
AND, I LOVE YOU, RUTH-!!!
To be poor or rich supposed to be a personal choice not a community choice
Amen 🙏
Cold and heartless. Immoral even.
@@danthomas6587 not even
It hurts me to watch this... only because of her health. :(
Ayn had a hate for communism and so do I. Her book, “ Capitalism the unknown ideal.” Is a favourite of mine. I believe honesty is the only way for capitalism to succeed, but communism no matter what you do with it, it will never be what truly works for the people and we can see it results, over the last 100 years. I don’t know why she is an atheist and why she feels the way she does about many things in her life. But she understood that the USA was built on a great system that lead the world and she could see the shift taking place in the U S. She lived in Russia and knew the effects of communism. I believe in God and understand that human nature is more evil then good. We will always take the easiest route and if we think we can get things for nothing, then offer something for free and watch the line form. A true Christian Society always works best for the people, that is when mankind realizes he is accountable for his deeds to God and God only. Sound like a sermon but it’s not.lol. But when I was a boy I truly think most men and women felt that way and knew where to go when they or we where facing a dilemma as a individual or as a nation. That the way I feel about it.
A true Christian Society is as likely as a successful Communist Society. Your dictator is just at an elevated position.
Ignorance of God is nearly perfect now in 2020, and ignorance of this fact is the most serious ignorance, but the wall of ignorance has been weaponized, to keep God out altogether. But only after tragedy after disaster after debacle will any minds open enough to look for The Answer. The conditions we are under are exactly those to enable us to build a paradise, btw.
Because she realizes that capitalism...while having many benefits ..at some point...inevitably produces situations that will meet as an opponent of Christian ideals.and morality. Because Jesus said " love thy neighbor as thyself"...and true capitalism...in her view..works best when we are not compelled to action for anyone else if it doesnt benefit ourselves in some direct way. This is an example of why she has no faith in any Judeo Christian God. But there are other examples
@@jimberlygridder183 What she has to say about free enterprise is so true, and yet the ruthless way many uncreative capitalists more or less rape nature doesn't look so good to me. But, I can't refute what she says about letting the entrepreneurs have their inspirations and creativities. No government interference, if ever that can for one time happen.
Humans are freeloaders and barely give lipservice of thanks to "intelligent design" as they use biomimicry and yet make a cheap products where a well made one with lovely design elements that stands the test of time would be good for all, not out of altruism but of pride in quality and desire to wisely use resources and create less waste. A true powerful 'dictator' as you think God is would not allow the humans such great freedom BUT "he will bring to ruin those ruining the earth" HIS earth! Should He watch earth's destruction and allow mankind's distain and foolishness? That would be hatred for man indeed. In fact it is only when they attack His people that he says "enough"! It is soon...
Ayn Rand was an amazing woman. She was and still is inspiring people to remove their knowledge blinders and explore deeper thought. I have been reading her works for over 20 years. Her philosophy has helped me in so many ways. I am so thankful for her courage and knowledge. The books that most changed me was The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged
She die on assistance and social security irony fitting
I attended a talk she gave at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston in 1972. The topic was "The Anti-Industrial Revolution". What she spoke of then is applicable today.
The audio of that talk is on RUclips, I just listened to it recently
What a brilliant mind. "As far as the feminist movement is concerned I am a male chauvinist. Proudly." "There is hope so long as there is one man left living on Earth." "The best way to help the poor is not to be one of them."
She would be run out of town with pitchforks today.
Me too
Genius
Chauvinism is merely militance. It has become commonly misunderstood as boorish hateful behavior. If anyone is chauvinistic it’s the feminist. As such more men should be chauvinistic. Otherwise we will continue to be willing victims.
But making others poor didn't bother her as long as she got hers.
Always a delight to see her. Thank you - here's hoping for more.
It's amazing how as I watch this on Feb. 27, 2022 the things she says are still so relevant today. Especially with the media. I wonder how much of the series she completed writing before she passed away. The Atlas Shrugged movie series was an admirable effort to getting the philosophy more into the main stream but the way series are done now on streaming services would be a much better way to let this story play out. A period piece would be great however, an idea to make it modern and possibly reach more youth of today would be to replace the "Railroad" with "Airlines."
The importance of IDEAS: ----- I was introduced to Ayn Rand (1905-1982) through her book, "PHILOSOPHY: WHO NEEDS IT", a collection of her essays. According to Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy, but which one to have: rational, conscious, and therefore practical; or contradictory, unidentified, and ultimately lethal. ------ As I recall, she said here that humans live their lives based on ideas. There is nothing more valuable than a great idea, and nothing more destructive than a bad idea.
Ayn Rand's last talk presented much food for thought and reflection.
I'm learning from you now at 74 only if I known of you fifty years ago.
Learning is learning .....no matter the age ..... great ! Happy 75 !
I love her ideas and stubborn, prickly personality. Fountainhead was awesome. Love her writing. One awesome person. Well spoken, well read. Such a sweetheart.
"sweet"- heart !?!!! ? 🥺🥴🤪😜😝
What Mrs Rand says is true and disturbing and we are living it out here and now!........
Why is this woman not a role model of the feminists?
She hated feminism.
Feminism is man-hating nihilism.
@@TeaParty1776 And that answers Marty's question exactly
If you have to ask this question then you must be a feminist or at worse a Simp !
She’s a man worshipper.
Minute 18 : "Businessmen have abandoned the intellect to the lowest rung of the unemployable." -Ayn Rand on Universities. BAM!
PERFECT
... living, for the sake of another, is thee most contemptible, self distructive position, ever. Jesus, supposedly taught and preached that loving ones neighbour as thyself, was the ideal position in which to be. And putting oneself aside didn't mean self annihilation. Our Love IS ONLY Ever Equal To Our Humility And Our Gratitude For The Confidence And The Prowess That Stabilises Our LOVE...
GOD BLESS EVERYONE BLESS EVERYTHING ALWAYS AMEN...
signed by...
the ROCK OF PHAGES...
@@pereraddison932 Yet the mantra of Jesuit institutions of learning is "men and women for others." This made no sense to me then, neither does it make any sense now.
So true, markedly so in 2020.
What if my morality of selfishness wanted to rape your women? She cannot answer this simple question. Morality comes from God and the Bible. That’s why America is the greatest country in the world. Fighting selfish dictatorships and communism.
"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime." - Aristotle
@Man, State and Memetics and throughout the majority of human history crime rates were high and most regime maintained army's primarily for putting down revolts.
The real power of goverments milatary
i wish there were women today like her. No other type is worth the effort to know.
Look up Tara Smith. She's one of the speakers from Ayn Rand Institute, and she does a great job articulating Objectivist ideas.
Ayn was hot to trotski
Atlas Shrugged changed my life!
How?
Thanks, Reverend Hicks, for explaining the Women of Grace teaching which, as I received it, goes: When you read something, (1) read it in the light of grace, (2) reflect on it, and (3) revolve it, marking its aspects of truth, beauty, and application. All time, in the company of loving personalities, gives us, I feel, a sense of more wholeness. If we consider motion pictures, along with radio, television, and books, merely another body of ideas, one need not stop at enjoying them, yes? Please say more.
I would love to hear her speak today...!
"it is a moral crime to give money to your destroyers". Ouch
and for them to steal it, as in the 300+ million dollars stolen from Trump in New York and the 85 million for you know who
An absolute powerhouse of ideas
oh dang... i remember seeimg this live in person as a kid!
Homage to Ayn Rand
Second-handers misrepresent
you
And second-raters resent you
But were your books banned
And there were no Ayn Rand
We would have been forced to
invent you.
-One who knew Ayn Rand
personally
The real issue is that our society allows the worst of these people to break the law while meeting out disproportional punishments to everyone else for lesser crimes. Also our public administrations and public property are under attack by private business interests.
The money printers are absolutely above any jurisdiction. How does that work?
Once your government is betraying the public trust in favour of profiteers they will come for your private property.
By the people for the people.
Reality is not two there can be no primacy. "Awareness is known by awareness alone," is the sole irreducible axiom of reality..
awareness aware of itself is enlightenment
The mystery of life is the experience of discoveriing the truth in the inidividual life. Altruism is a gift from whatever is experienced as God and too many don't believe the real source of their own gift. There are others who believe the best life is lived by learning to love learning and love the work that needs to be done for others.
... YES ... Pezactally ... ! ...
So true...those that are "altruistic" are not motivated by goodness but a hatred of the successful".
So when Freemasons donate to children's causes they do so because they hate themselves?
@@johncaccioppo1142 Good catch. I shd have said "many that are altruistic".
@@janetwhite7786 Nice to see we are on the same page.
But I'm no Rand fan, because I think she's branding a satanic philosophy that has a corrosive effect on communities. It's been a potent negative influence on my life and relationships, and I only recently realized it.
What an amazing mind she had. I don't think a movie could do justice to Atlas Shrugged, but I'd like to see it tried.
I enjoyed these films, Atlas Shrugged, parts 1, 2, and 3:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged_(film_series)
They caught the essence of her ideas, I thought.
Her brain was full of knowledge
... her brain, and her body, was fuelled by vitriol ...
More like callous disregard.
But why is it she can't answer intelligent or complex questions based on your comment.
"Altruism is the philosophy of cannibals" (pots falling backstage). Guess they were attending too. 😋🍖
Lol
A great American thinker! Suffering here from bad production, mainly the terrible P.A. system. At first it feeds back and then hums. My goodness, that can fixed. And then the noise ( her competition). I wish she had a great production to explain her Objectivism here. Thank God that there are great humans shaping our human condition like Ayn Rand. Even if she may not agree with my statement “ Thank God”. Maximum Positivity
On universities - It is a moral crime to support ideas with which you disagree! This should be applied to politics - do not pay taxes to those with whom you disagree. This would soon change the outlook of the politicians to appreciate who pays their salaries.
Thank you Ayn Rand !!!
Atlas shrugged is one book these so-called SWJ's should read but won't . Too afraid to .
Look in the mirror SWJ's
I have it, need to read it
Is it not SJW?
I like Atlas Shrugged for it's elitism. Also, We The Living.
Sure somehave
I have read it and while many parts were unnecessarily long and boring, other parts were truly hilarious.
I am very interesting in listen Ayn Rand , anytime because she had a lot of knowledge about the fails of the socialism but the volume of the video is so low that I can't hear well.
She would have some interesting words today with the internet
Can you imagine?
She would have supported the possibilities of it, not what it is.
*Fascinating lecture. I read "Atlas Shrugged" John Galt became a heroic figure in my mind.*
❤love this lady.
"Please gentlemen, no photographs... I'm too old for that." Meanwhile, her speech is being filmed in its entirety.
The flash she found annoying...you fool.
@@danielperatinos89 you can read her mind all the way in the past, you wonder-kind.
@@IssacTrotts Are you trying to speak English...?
For real. She’s a blow hard.
Difference in flashing cameras in her face from 20 feet you monkey
33:00 "If we remain free... we will see great things on television."
She was right beyond her wildest dreams, look at the explosion of "television" on the internet!
I just came from the Mike Wallace interview with Ms. Rand and was bothered by my feeling that it was more of a debate than an interview. I felt that she should have been asked more questions about her philosophy which could describe a working model perhaps.
I was pleased to find this video so that I might understand her position better.
As soon as she asked the question about which activity in the form of 'job' had the greatest beneficial effect on society I quickly answered the question in my head before she got to her own answer.
Her answer was "the scientist...".
I found her answer plain old hard to believe.
My answer was "the farmer...". I thought it was obvious.
Then she went on to describe altruism in ways I had never heard associated with the word.
Since I am a fallible being and fully aware of it, I listened on hoping to learn the connection between altruism and cannibalism and altruism and businessmen.
I admit that I stopped watching this video because I felt lost. I won't say that "she lost me when she said this or that".
I will say that "I soon felt lost when I failed to understand her".
I believe that she went on to define 'altruism' as a lifestyle practiced by businessmen who were motivated by making the world a better place as in "easier to live." This was the basis she used for describing businessmen as altruistic.
Somehow I always thought that business was motivated primarily by the promise of great profit. Surely a product that made life easier for a great number of people could be considered a better prospect for bringing in greater profit.
I don't see her connection of businessmen to altruism.
I don't even see humans as capable of acting altruistically, let alone living altruistically.
The Mike Wallace interview left me curious.
This video left me struggling and unable to understand her.
Farming is a science, it's agricultural science. Imagine where we would be without the scientific achievement that optimized agricultural practices for high quality, high yields, climate and pest resistance, etc. Even the very first farmers applied the scientific process through trial and error.
She's not describing altruism as much as she is highlighting what she thinks is the hypocrisy -- or contradiction -- of a business designed to earn a profit only to give it away to those who didn't earn it. By the way, if you're curious enough to really understand the truth about Ayn Rand, you'll find that she is a confused, troubled, hypocritical, evil woman -- and a poor writer.
A truly horrendous human being, with a ridiculous concept of society. This person has never seen the business end of a shovel who denigrated the working class her vision of society is so ill thought out monstrous she cannot be raken seriously by any decent human being
She was extremely correct in many matters but those she wasn't right about, she was very wrong about. No middle ground.
Her view on love was questionable, only given to the virtuous which to me translates as nobody.
Please verify with some actual examples of where she was very wrong.
Perhaps that is just your own opinion not fact.
@@krisbest6405 "only given to the virtuous" is not exactly what she said. its given to another who's virtues one agrees with.
@Teresa Williamson Nice hateful marxist text wall.
She convinces me, when it comes to our not showing significant explicit (by enjoying, the business community's contributions, we express a general appreciation) appreciation for the Big Daddy business man whose net profitable work produces the wherewithal for our projects in all other fields, including but not limited to democratic self-government, scientific exploration, the Internet and other mass communications, the arts, and transportation. I would love to have a national holiday which celebrates the intelligent, creative businessmen of our world.
Imagine the conversation she would of had with"Thomas Sowell." Two great minds coming together.
That would of been something?
Ayanna Rand- I am quite influenced by her since 1972 when I first read Fountain Head. Since then I have a collection of her most Novels and writings. Geat thinker. I found it close to one of the yogas contained in Bhagwatgita I.e. Karmayoga. Great.....
well then you learned nothing - yogi's are mystics - who needs them.
Ayn speaks basic human truths that are part of human nature, not a particular society or culture. A true American of course from Russia.
Reading Atlas Shrugged. Talk about relevant today.
I agree with her in most of what she lectured about. It is impressive that was able to see that the press back then in 1981 or before was leaning to the left. Back then I didn't detect that.
Spot on!
великая женщина!
великий чистый ум!
"Great woman, great pure mind", as my computer translated this.
(Would you agree with this translation?)
Super smart and right about a lot of things...I disagree with her about abortion. She must not have thought of the unborn as living humans. Sadly. Such a brutal and evil practice, especially in these days of UNLIMITED (and free) birth control options.
Humans have bodies. The whole purpose of pregnancy is to create a human body. If the cells near conception were just a less mature version of an infant maybe I would see your point but as it stands in early stages of pregnancy there is no skeletal system, no nervous system, etc. All those parts have to be created.
So no a zygote or an embryo or a fetus is not an actual human. It's a potential human.
PETER! keep your stupid opinions to yourself until you become a woman. Even Jesus didn't think of the unborn as living humans..
While she's being filmed she asks photographers to stop taking her picture, perhaps the picture taking of her just plainly irritated her and had nothing to do with the taking of her picture, despite that to me she is my hero, she is the Aristotle of greater knowledge and of modern times.
@SunnyDaysRFun
Aristotle was anticapitalist.
@@Soul-zl6bb Don't know that for sure, but Ayn Rand spoke well of him to a small degree and I went with that.
@@SunnyDaysRFun
Thanks for your quick reply. You could read Aristotle's Politics, chapter 1, parts 1-4 and 8-10. Aristotle saw an embryo of capitalism and was able to describe it based on that. Few (orthodox) economists appreciate it, I think it is key to understanding capitalism.
Needs more volume please!
for years ..since my -teen life when I was asked what do I think about people who do own business and are rich (back when I was living in communist country) I said that WE SHOULD NAME EVERY SINGLE STREET AFTER THESE PEOPLE who in reality gave a chance to others to make a living ...to give them a chance to put a bread on a table ..and I still stay by my old statement
i don't think you understand her work
Prof Snape Interviews her at the end. Ayn is incredible!
The audio needs to be remixed to mono, it is way too strong on the left channel, I can't listen to this.
Objectivism is like the Laffer curve - extremely vague. Laffer never seems to tell us what the optimum point of taxation should be nor even how it could be determined. Why doesn't he tell us? I don't know, but maybe because so many factors go into the solution - it is not a simple exercise in logic and mathematics. Objectivism is the same. It is only convincing to people who don't care to dig into the assumptions or attempt to corroborate the specious arguments. People who are rigorous in arguments write that her arguments "lack clarity, fail to adequately support her premises, draw unsupported conclusions, and baldly state controversial theses as if they were self-evident facts".
Wow, so many people who created themselves from nothing.
And built nothing for future generations.
@@johncaccioppo1142 ... oh, it's all there, and in plain sight. But obscenely, reinterpretedly obscured by every dictatorial authority that has ever been...
Is she an atheist? Is America a Christian nation? Are Christianity and capitalism compatible?
I’m glad English is my fluent second language, but I’d set captions on for me to print-screen her quotes and from 33:35 on for a while, captions became “frozen”, specially when she mentioned Russia.
Those captions are automatically generated by youtube. Autogenerating translations is hard, and currently very prone to errors.
Your response to your own values. (Love)
Amazing
17:54 “businessmen have good ground to despise philosophy as it is taught today, but it is taught that way because businessmen have abandoned the intellect to the lowest rank of the unemployables”
I don't think “businessmen " had ever the time and the interest in philosophy...
many of them would be pretty unemployable ... by nature.. if they did not have public subsidies etc
Spitting truths. What a gangster.
literally, anyone who work should agree with her.
Ms. Rand died on my birthday the following spring. It was a lovely gift and perhaps the nicest thing she ever did.
Oh Howard. Your ideas have killed more people than lives raised out of poverty through capitalism (even China thrives from freeER markets). That must really piss you off, comrade.
Now I find her Inspirational.
Think about the post modern business man today. A banker is not an industrialist, and an industrialist is corrupt when they become a lobbyist advocating for monopoly. All have fallen victim to the consequence of the business man following their self interest. Altruism is a weakness from the materialist perspective, but when the scientific method is no better than a blind man’s cane, it is necessary for survival. Objectivism is narrow and only powerful when it stands on the shoulders of altruism.
Her favorite novelists Dostoyevsky and Hugo were both deeply religious men. Hugo would most aptly be called a mystic. Both of them advocated heavily for care of the poor. Interesting.
She didnt have to agree with them, if she loved their novels that's fine. The book I read by Dostoyevsky was A Friend of the Family. I had a hard time reading it, but I did enjoy it.
One of a kind genius
I like how she told the photographer to buzz off.
Me too!......as she was being recorded
Love this woman. Just love her.
She did not want to be photographed but this is being taped. Was she not told that this video was being recorded?
Video represents how you look in motion. An "unposed" photograph can cause the anxiety of looking like you're pulling a strange face while you're halfway through saying or expressing something.
35:35 we are here 36:00 acceptance ....Its over, vote with your feet. Its done, or stay and get impoverished
We should probably only listen to the audio, since she asked that no photographs of her be taken at that moment in her life.
Boy was she right
Thank goodness they've listened to her! Imagine what kind of world would be if they didn't. Imagine being exploited by Amazon in 2020! Ah!
Elle dit de bonnes vérités.
Ouais, c'est vrai!
henry kissinger in a dress
Was thinking more along the line of "Dr. Strangelove"
Ayn Rand, Truth Monetary Reform at it's heart.
Maybe bringing Nazis into the CIA and NASA wasn't such a good idea.
Nietzsche would have laughed at the concept of Business Tycoon as Ubermensch.
@Midnight Lightning Radio
Ah!
Then her primary goal was to turn values upside down similar to the way Freud did.
How clever of her to despise Communism and use it as a bouncing board.
Hi can you say more about the Nazis? ?
@Midnight Lightning Radio Right. Sure it is.
You gonna quote David Icke for me, or the "Protocols of the elders of Zion?"
@@ruskoruskov3086 Yes.After Ww2, The CIA brought in Nazi Eastern front intelligence officials, led by Reinhard Gehlen, for purposes of combatting the Soviets, and Rocket scientists, with Werner Von Braun, propulsion engineer for the V2 rocket program, as the front man, to work at NASA.
The Americans called the secret, illegal, nazi impoortation operation "Operation Paperclip."
@@stevendurham9996 hi Steven halfway through the book The Rise of the Fourth Reich by Jim Marrs
Her criticism of Russia's military weakness is spot on. Weak and loaded with defectors. Too bad she didn't get to live long enough to see the USSR fall.
The real shame is that she didn’t live to see the USA fall. We are seeing and living it right now.
@@rapman5363 If it falls, it will be because of the Marxist parasites infesting it.
I want a copy of this lecture , how can I get one ?
It’s to bad that employees pay taxes to “themselves”!
They pay taxes to their slave masters
How easily people, like you, forget that employers make it possible for employees to earn a living! Eliminate an employer and what do you also eliminate, an employee! Not only do liberals want to pay their employees higher wages, they want them to contribute their profits to the unemployed!
@@craigwinter2341 I think they were talking about how they pay taxes for their own "benifits" it wasnt a critique on employers but on socialism.
Altruism is not the same as collectivism and people who are altruistic do not hate those that work hard and make money for themselves. Collectivism may hate business men but altruistic people without thought of gain or expectancy of anything in return, give to other people freely because they care about the suffering of others. I am altruistic and I fight for the right of the businessmen or women to work hard and keep their money. I do not believe in wealth redistribution. I believe that man should care enough about each other to take care of each other but everyone has a choice to work hard or hardly work. There are some exceptions of course, of people who do to no fault of their own are in a place where they need help from others and there should be those willing to help them. We all have free will to be good to each other or selfish for ourselves. Unfortunately selfishness has become more and more prominent over the years. That's when you appeal to the public to be better to each other. You don't just take someone's hard earned money and distribute it to anyone who is broke.