Day at Night: Ayn Rand, author, "Atlas Shrugged"
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- Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2013
- Host James Day interviews philosopher and writer Ayn Rand, who explains her philosophy of objectivism and offers her concept of the ideal man. Rand also discusses her thoughts on rationality, love, morality, free will, and art. She describes her early determination to become a writer, and the ideas encompassed in her influential novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Taped at WNET in New York.
Day at Night originally aired on public television from 1973-1974. This episode was restored by CUNY Television. (Taped: 03/29/74)
CUNY TV is proud to re-broadcast newly digitized episodes of DAY AT NIGHT, the popular public television series hosted by the late James Day. Day was a true pioneer of public television: co-founder of KQED in San Francisco, president of WNET upon the merger of National Educational Television (NET) and television station WNDT/Channel 13, and most recently, Chairman of the CUNY TV Advisory Board. The series features fascinating interviews with notable cultural and political figures conducted in the mid 1970's.
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Thank God for Ayn Rand. We need more honest thinking people like her.
She would not appreciate that sentiment. Where is her god? She refuses to accept anything that is not real.
lol
She said she understands when people say "God bless you," they are offering her their highest regards, so she still appreciates it.
She is insane and you are a cult member
I suffered severe depressıon sınce chıldhood at the hands of fanatıcally relıgıous parents and a sıblıng, ıt lasted for decades, then Ayn Rand's phılosophy ended all of that, she saved the rest of my lıfe. A wonderful, wıse and sweet woman.
Beautiful. She also saved me from my depression.
@Ok I am religious and believe the parable of the Good Samaritan by Jesus makes logical sense (example of helping others in need not out of selfishness) and so does the existence of God. If God wants us to care for one another (based on the teachings of Jesus) then Ayn Rand's philosophy is invalid. I am not a big "My brother's keeper" type of person being generally against a bloated welfare state but some basic safeguards for the poor and disabled as a public service makes logical sense not about feelings. I believe we all are given a conscience which prevents us from doing harm to others and turning your back on suffering people also triggers my conscience to help rather than a selfish motive. Lots of her ideas make sense but it assumes you are only doing it for your own benefit which is pure individualism which I like somewhat but it is also impractical since we do have public needs that cannot be privately provided such as military protection which requires a great deal of collective funding. Nevertheless, I am a big believer in what she promotes "pro-capitalist, laissiez-faire, economic freedom and individualism". I am a conservative and Christian so those four ideas are actually very rational and reasonable. Limited government seems to be her goal which is what I agree with. Eliminating God and what God commands: Love thy neighbor as thy self" is contrary to her philosophy and is what I can't and most people can't buy.
@@tntstorms7969 grew up in the church and preached since 17. Practicing sacrificial love almost took my life. First time I heard Ayn was like hearing the gospel, a breath of fresh air to my soul.
The idea that I could actually put myself and my needs first has given me hope. I believe in God and the Christian Gospel at its core makes sense.
However, the Christian philosophy and the its practical application today is quite destructive to a good hearted person.
Ayn Rand would say she did not save you, you saved yourself using her writing and your own rational process.
Religions were not made by God. They are man made rules and rituals deceiving us into believing we know God. Cut out the middleman. There is one God, his son Jesus ( God incarnate) and you. A relationship not religion.
When I was younger, back in 2004.... I was having a conversation with some fellow shipmates when I was commercial fishing in Alaska. I was saying things that aligned with Ayn Rand. The Boatswain on the ship asked me if I ever read Atlas Shrugged. I told him I hadn't. Himself and another person was blown away. I was handed The Fountainhead when we got back to land. I was told that this book should speak to me. I came to these thoughts from on my own,,, I though it was self evident. When I read Fountainhead, I found it very powerful... I clearly remember the overwhelming feeling of realizing I wasn't alone in the way I think. I finally wasn't alone.... other's thought like I did. At that time in my life, I had spent about 7 years in Portland and never liked or respected the culture there. I often was at odds with people. I followed up with Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand had a profound affect on me. Fast Forward and I have a degree in Mathematics, Philosophy, and I'm a Physicist.... and a Business owner. She had a profoundly positive influence on my life.
Edit: I should say, she put words and crystalized what I had deep feelings about. She is the perfect foil to Marxism. Whenever I engage in a debate with people... I always ask them "Who owns you?".
AWESOME... thanks for sharing that.
Good point!
You said u had deep feelings, but as per her philosophy an ideal man is not governed by his feelings
My life is divided in two parts: The time before I read Atlas Shrugged and the time after it
We can only hope for a third act-once you’ve been mercifully deprogrammed.
@@herbertwells8757 I hope you dont like This cow
Exactly
@@fredred8029 but I do, for her intelligence.
That is gross to even think of. I am so glad that I don't know you.
1943 the Fountainhead. 2022 and we're still buying and enjoying tremendously her work!
Because you're dumb
Look how amazingly aware her eyes are. Like she's a human-machine of pure calculation and wisdom. The happiness just behind the eyes.
I don’t see that in this late interview. Here, to me, she just looks fatigued. I have noticed it in earlier interviews, however, and there was a particular chemical cause: Ayn Rand for most of her life was a regular daily user of amphetamines, an addict, in fact.
@@herbertwells8757 Just as CoCo Chanel was alife long heroin user.
Her eyes are darting at an abnormal rate. Something is off.
@@WintersWar She was a drug addict.
@@chrisc1257 If you can call someone who smoked 2 packs of cigarettes a day for 4 decades and quit cold turkey one day on the advice of her doctor an 'addict', your program is running on a broken OS. Just consider the average AA gathering as a point of reference.
"I don't believe a lack of knowledge is a license to start inventing fantasies."
Truth
so she's against art?
@@Daniela-pr7rz That's an argument against religion actually.
@@mattf2545Damn it, i always forget to put that "/s" in there.
But... ......"inventing fantasies" IS consistent with art too.
@@Daniela-pr7rz So hard to tell where people are coming from sometimes, especially when having to constantly fight straw- men arguments against Rand. So it can be hard to tell friend from foe.
If you're interested in her take on art, I would recommend her non - fiction book, The Romantic Manifesto, if you haven't read it already.
I would surmise her take on good art vs bad art would come down to the nature of the fantasy. Glad to discuss further if ya like. ☺️
More like spin.
Way ahead of her time ! We’re living her Atlas Shrugged scenario NOW ! 😢
Why do you think her critics hate her!
@@beth-rg8bm For exposing them.
Exactly my thought on every page!!! The spiritual descendants of the looters never ceased to exist...
The western world needs more people with her mindset.
I love this person now since 1979, and more and more every day. Truly one of the most magnificent minds ever.
Agree 100%.
In a Nathanial Branden essay, he wrote, "If you want to know what someone thinks of themself, find out who they sleep with." Heroes sleep with heroines; degenerates sleep with degenerates.
you poor deluded bastard. :-)
She is a disgusting human being. I believe that she was addicted to amphetamines. A hate filled woman that pushed a philosophy of being self centered.
@@samuellane8691 If you allow, I disagree slightly. Michael slept with Barack and she seemed pure and kind-hearted and invested in the well-being of others.
The beauty of this is that, without an inferiority complex,
this interview is an exploration into the mind of someone who questions everything and has firm morals while using her own compass based on evidence and rational. So nice to see, a lost art it seems in today’s public sphere
Reason is such a basic thing to human and yet there are those force other not to use reason. IE... "Follow the science"
@@johnmicheal3547 Political 'science'
@@charlesangell_bulmtl no, "Political science" is the study of politic and how it works. "Follow the science" is be a sheeple and get use at the detrimental cost to the sheep.
Her face ALWAYS lights up when she mentions her husband! Love that!
"The highest tribute to Ayn Rand is that her critics must distort everything she stood for in order to attack her. She advocated reason, not force; the individuals rights to freedom of action, speech,& association; self responsibility, NOT self-indulgence; & a live-and-let-live society in which each individual is treated as an END, not the MEANS of others' ends. How many critics would dare honestly state these ideas & say. "...and that's what I reject"? ---Barbara Branden, author of The Passion of Ayn Rand.
Interesting that she called it "the passion of Ayn Rand" and not "the reason of Ayn Rand" LoL.
And that was probably the best thing Barbara Branden ever said. PAR is basically another Mommie Dearest.
Thanks for your unabashed honesty Barbara
Re: "How many critics would dare honestly state these ideas & say. '...and that's what I reject'?" That's a list of platitudes, not "ideas". Anyone can CLAIM he stands for "reason", etc.--or, for that matter "truth, justice, and the American way" (as the old fifties "Superman" TV show used to put it). That means nothing. Calling yourself "rational" doesn't make you rational. Calling yourself an advocate of rationality doesn't make you an advocate of rationality.
@@herbertwells8757 Individual rights is an idea, duh.
nearly 40 ! years ago! she was a very bright and challenging mind. James Day is such a fine interviewer. excellent programs.
Sure, Rand was bright, but I would challenge the "challenging mind" bit--depending what you mean by it. By the time of this interview Rand had long been intellectually stultified, reduced to repeating the same well-rehearsed formulas over and over again. If this were the first you time you encountered her, I suppose you might be challenged (depending on your age and philosophical literacy) by her, but if you had already read her--pretty much at all--, you couldn't reasonably be challenged by much of anything she said, wrote, or did in the last three decades of her life--or so.
It’s not a formula…….you must not understand the concepts by which she lived. She is asked to explain things and she does……..interview after interview. If you read, and understand, and think about the concepts you will, reasonably, be not only challenged but be changed.
@@dd911yup. the original poster is just naive.
Ayn Rand is beyond great and one of the best of intelligent thought.
Thanks.
Greatly enjoyed James Day's interview with Ayn Rand.
It would be more illuminating for her to have been interviewed by someone like Bryan Magee in the manner that Noam Chomsky was in 1978 (look for the RUclips video-or any other in the series), although I’m afraid she may have been flailing, lost at sea, in this more heady milieu. Her knowledge of philosophy in general was too superficial and spotty and her own “philosophy” too threadbare and derivative.
it's silly that this is controversial. It is so basic and fundamental.
One doesn't have to agree with her, to enjoy listening to her perspective.
That's what I'm gathering. I think I disagree with her a lot but I still really like her.
You need to study
I bet if you guys thought it out all the way through, you wouldn't disagree with her quite as much. Not that I agree with 100% of what she had to say when she was alive, but... *most* of it makes sense. The main hold up in admitting as much for a lot of people, is that it grates against virtually everything they've been taught (from external sources) is "right" their whole lives. Once you get past that though, imo it's pretty easy to see she didn't get much wrong.
Totally. 99% of her critics only know what her through what other critics have said. Yes read Aristotle first then Rand all of their works then tell me how horrible you think she is, until then who really cares what your irrational conclusions amount to.
Jack Sutter what do you disagree with?
Ayn Rand fan." The Fountainhead" is one of my favourite novels. Rand was a great fan of America's railroads[ways]. She often traveled on NYC's "Twentieth Century Limited", being invited by the engine drivers to travel in their locomotive as the train headed up the Hudson River.
I especially like the rape scene. A man should take what he needs, no matter whose it is.
@@ToxicTorgo It's not a literal rape, Dominique gave consent (sure, in a peculiar way, by whipping Roark's face). But symbolically - yes, it's a rape, because Roark forces out a contradiction in Dominique's soul. Read the passage more carefully.
@@michaelsvoboda1024 In fairness, he did clarify sarcasm. I suspect he understands the context.
Just sayin'; but yes, I think you're correct in interpretation.
This is a very good interview! I love her !
Excellent interview. Educational, informative and not this CNN nonsense of baiting people with childish questions. Thanks for posting.
Collectivism is a scourge upon the world.
Ayn Rand's self belief is so infectious and inspiring that you are happy to follow her.
Cult leaders have that ability, that magical, mystical charm. Even Donald Trump has it. (Obviously the spell doesn’t bewitch everyone.)
@@herbertwells8757 A cult is a religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader. I don't think Rand's saying to live realistically is a religion. She doesn't tell you how to live, you are free to choose between reality and imagination not what you must do, she is only saying that to be an individualist you must live within realty of what's going on around you in the present time.
An ever-fascinating mind.
As a case study...
A mind trapped within the narrow confines of its overbearing, claustrophobic, and insufficiently informed and insufficiently imaginative ideology.
@@herbertwells8757 She simply stated facts.
She stated a philosophy, which helps interpret facts. Nice try guys 👍
I was introduced to Ayn Rand's works 24 years ago by a slightly older friend in college. It changed my way of thinking, made me a hard worker and due to Ayn and her Objectivisim I am who I am today. I think Ayn would weep today seeing the state of not just America but the West entirely as we've fallen so far, government has gotten too big, monopolies are everywhere propped up by crooked big governments and people think a homeless junkie that's never worked a day in their life or contributed in any way is more important and worthy of saving than a businessman or inventor who've truly made other's lives better thru their work. All Charity and helping others does is cause them to value nothing, because watch how someone treats something they were given vs something they've had to work for. They will take better care of and value that which they worked hard for.
Wonderful, a long time I haven't seen such a good interview!
Read Ayn Rand in college! Changed my life, but it took years to absorb the concept! At 68, work in progress still!
Out of work unemployed and can't pay your house payment, think again
Toward the end, when she lists achievement and romantic love as two of the most joyous things in life... little doubt about that. I’ve always found Ayn Rand to be someone that I understood and agreed with in the main, than man should live rationally and ethically and free, but disagreed with on some specific issues, such as some of her views on art and the value of religion. The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged are both essential reading, the latter being cumulatively the second largest selling book of all time in the English language, after the Bible. She was quite a gal.
agree, except about religion... she was spot on about religion as well... surprised that you do not see that
I don't know of a single individual in my life that I have agreed with 100% of the time on 100% of the issues. Not my parents, not my wife, not my kids, not my friends...nobody. I agree with Ayn Rand over 90% of the time. That's pretty amazing. And the small number of issues I disagree with her on...I'm not positive I'm right and she's wrong.
I'm still working on wrapping my head around her definition of selfishness. I believe she's been heavily misinterpreted in that vein, but I need to focus there exclusively until I understand her pov. It's the only aspect of her philosophy I have trouble grasping after reading her most popular books multiple times and the others at least once. They were gifted to me by a sweet man who after we conversed a few months assumed I'd read them. Reading them was like meeting a wise old grandmother whom I never knew.
Funny how most people have to twist her words in order to criticize her, she was a brilliant mind.
@Skip White I am not trying to bash her, but some of the things she said seemed to me not feasible.
She speaks here about how a man should be rational with self esteem. If nothing else would motivate a man, she and other old women, would all be alone in old age, as no rational man would choose an old, bitter woman to a young , beautiful one.
I heard her say how monopolies cannot form under unregulated economic environment, where the government stays away from it. How would she know? there's no example of a government that completely stayed away. Just because monopolies formed under economies where government is active , is no proof that monopolies would not form in free economies.
Also, she said no taxes, private roads, private everything. So poor men should stay on house arrest, because they cannot afford to use the roads and a s a consequence they would never have a chance to prosper? What about valuable minds that would not have a chance to shine without a scholarship, or some sort of help to get started?
i like personal freedom and not forcing people to sacrifice for others, but she is a little too extreme in a way that would make her ideas not work in real life.
@@Daniela-pr7rz Well- no rational man with self esteem would choose to be with an old woman, unless she was rich or had other features, like intelligence to make her interesting. I think she is mostly right about the claim that monopolies cannot form in unregulated economies. Because if very big corporations did not have the option to bribe politicans, they would have to keep createting value to the custumers, to keep competision at bay. Noting is wrong with a big corporation that creates more value than the competion.
@@Daniela-pr7rz She is a genuine pipe dream with a philosophy that will never be tested, just trying to set it up goes against it's own grain... But she is brilliant.
i am greatly enjoying reading atlas shrugged
Finished yet?
Amazing to hear her talk about what a person should never do, when that is exactly what she did with Nathaniel and Barbara, acting purely out of feelings of rage and frustration
I do not agree that what she did was react through feelings. Brandon lied to her. He pretended to agree with certain aspects of her value system and received her endorsement and cooperation as a result. When she discovered that he had been misrepresenting himself to her she reacted by cutting him off from her support and exposing his hypocrisy.
There are a few areas where I disagree with Rand. Had I been in Nathaniel Brandon's position I would have brought up those differences in discussion. That would have been the honest thing to do. I would have risked losing her support, of course, but that is a risk I would be willing to accept in order to remain an honest person. He was unwilling to do that and chose to lie instead. She reacted rationally.
People either love her work or hate it... Personally speaking...I was entertained by her work and that's enough for me!
I have the same thought that she does when I see that men or women are the best in something, it provides me much enjoyment. Just watching someone like Mike Tyson or reading about the Wright Bros. is awe inspiring.
I agree with her and love her mind and philosophy
You don’t “agree with her”; she has dictated to you what you should think, and you have submitted. She has dictated to you what you should love, and you have submitted.
Beautiful thinking!
It's funny how even under this video not many people understand that!
Brilliant
"Facts don't care about your feelings"
Excellent talk on art (around 20:00)
Great interview. Mush more reasonable than the Donahue and Wallace interviews. This one and Carson's and Snyder's are great!
This woman lived through the Russian Revolution - that injustice formed much or her thought. That said, she is startlingly original.
the RR was a great justice lol
It sounds like she said if you pay someone fair wages & you make money from their labor that is a good thing. Sounds like a win win when practiced fairly.
Some one should try it.
Have you ever had a job? Thats fair.
No she’s saying that someone from whom you seek a job will pay you for the value of your labor.. not necessarily fair in the sense of a comfortable wage.
Ford did.
Lol hell yeah I'm willing to try it. Too bad that is a thing of the past and for books that no one has ever read. I'm 41, I don't know anyone else who has read Atlas shrugged, not one..... I've encouraged everyone I know to read it but I don't think anyone cares, one way or the other. So I say that they will get what they deserve, fuck them they will be fine slaves
The "fair" wage is the market wage, whatever a person can get through voluntary, non-sacrificial dealings with others. But a "living" wage (a meaningless concept), as the altruists demand, is still based on the ethics of sacrifice.
That a great interviewer- very c
If the USA had followed this philosophy, we would be 100 times better off. A Laissez-faire style government.
Hey look, it's another theory to go with Ayn's theories.
Ayn Rand was a brave, smart and sincere woman. I disagree vehemently with much of her notions, but on mysticism leading to dogma I'm on a unity ticket with her 100%. Nobody is perfect I guess. But she had courage.
Its always hilarious to me when someone explains that they disagree with someone without stating why. Its like waiting to state an opinion until everyone else has already agreed with it.
I see no reason to disagree with her.
@@drstrangelove09 Your post is four words too long.
@@primategaberocco huh? ... nope... it was correct as is... maybe you can elaborate... how is her views against mysticism wrong? are you saying that mysticism makes sense? this is 2022... and you think there is no such thing as reason...? seriously? you cannot be serious
My favorite writer Ayn Rand y Jack London
Very interesting choice of words, "religious training."
Lively open discussion thxu
I am to this day trying to find critics of her philosophy that tackle the philosophical issues and not her possible personal shortcomings.
jeep23862. I think you have it backwards. One cannot prove a negative.
jeep23862. When a person wishes to challenge a concept/philosophy/evidence THEY must bring a counter-positive argument to challenge it, provided the original concept has evidence.
Example: If I were to say that drinking water kept my brain alive AND I have personal and observed evidence to back my claim, You have every right to not pay any attention to me. If you wish to call it non-sense though, you must bring some kind of explanation/theory/evidence to suggest why.
Example 2: if I were to say that ghost exist because I like the idea, but have NO evidence. Then all you can really say is that I have no Reason for such a claim, but you are not called to provide any evidence that they do NOT exist. (Proving a negative)
The main thing really is.... what issue do you have with Objectivism specifically?
@jeep23862 Finally someone discussing what she is saying in theís interview. Help me with this one: She denounces religion, was Atheist, yet she often comes back to the notion of being moral and good? How does that work when you dont have responsibility for others, is it a purely utilitarian motivation not to hurt others because they or society will sanction you and you will have done yourself a disservice?
@jeep23862 Sorry, this was not the "Atheists are not moral, because they don't believe" question. Literally I'm asking: How do you define good or moral behaviour? Do you define it by law? Who is to decide who is living up to these standards and who's not? When she says that people, presumably most, are inclined to act morally by themself, if they are free to act solely on their own impulses, she has never considered how corruption or price fixing works? I do understand her background, and in that context, moving to America was a liberation as well as a shock when she learned that the same communist mentality existed there too to some extent, but how did she conclude that society can work without oversight? How would environmental protection work?: Successful farmers around a lake prosper, but the fishermen on the lake have their business destroyed, because of excessive Nitrates, so does the Farmers say "Sorry" we are going to reduce our yield by using less fertilizer by themself? Are these farmers guilty of using "force against another free man" are they guilty of a crime? What one think is reasonable and fair, is often highly offensive and damaging to someones else freedom. How would this ever be manageable in a government free society? The "zero tax" argument with volunteer charity for the disabled should work in principle, But it would also have people dying in the street, because some elderly or sick wouldn't have any close family to support them.
@jeep23862 I think it does, and this is where my sense of balance lies too. I don't know enough about Ayn, to know if she suggested this as a societal model, or her philosophy was intended as a personal compass, she was a filosofer, not a politician. I do think still such a "Randtopia" is more difficult in praxis than it sounds: Let's take tax again because everybody knows it and feel somewhat ambivalent about it: How much is too much before it becomes exploitation? Is 4-6% reasonable, like in tax havens around the world, which is just enough for buying new bulbs for the streetlights when they go out? Or 13-25% in the US or the 55-75% in Scandinavia? I think humans are inclined by evolution to take responsibility in maintaining and protecting the social group they are part of for personal survival reasons, i.e. you don't have to feel others suffering, you simply have an advantage when spending some of your personal food, hunting capability or grooming on your neighbours, for your own benefit. But can a human society agree on what is reasonable? The way things work now in countries with parliamentarism, very few think the amount of tax they pay personably is fair and reasonable, though most people agree that taxes in principle are beneficial. With highway speed limits, we are all glad they are there, but personally I drive above it some of the time. So I think that however free a society is organised, everybody still will feel that they are compromising up to their neck. We do agree on property rights and right to privacy etc. and Communism that doesn't respect that is appalling, but you'll always have an element of "Communism" in such a country, as individuals will be violated still, by either pulling a greater share than the next guy, or having his rights violated when their property is expropriated for a new road. About the last part, I know Ayn would answer that if the state want your property, they'll just have to offer a price you can agree with, and no one will be violated, but this will only work if the homeowner is governed by reason which she says is an admirable trait to strive for, and nobody will just sit on their porch with a shotgun and yell "no", So roads will be longer with more bends in such a society!
She says art should never be didactic. Amazing. Atlas Shrugged in arguably the most didactic novel of the past century. She's teaching and "preaching" on just about every page.
She was often inconsistent, but was an excellent self-promoter.
Is there a difference between expressing your opinion and intending to instruct?
@@jscottfischer I would say yes. Opinions are what they are and can be quite free of any factual basis or knowledge of a subject under discussion. Instruction, however, assumes (or so it seems to me) a body of knowledge to be conveyed. Intending to instruct would be grounded in that. I can't imagine Rand seeking to instruct on the basis of mere opinion, as she detested "opinions." Her weak characters exercise and state their "opinions." Ironically she claimed that she did not offer opinions while maintaining throughout her life her decision at the age of 12 or so that there was no God. This was nothing other than an immature opinion formed in youth. But it's a question she seems never to have studied. For an alleged philosopher, she seemed very uninformed about religion and theology, other than to ridicule it by repeating popular, conventional bromides.
@@richardterrell1946 Nothing is more adorable than going to all the old greats interviews and noticing the First year Philosophy students spewing their newly purchased vocabulary words
I would say her art more-so portrayed her philosophy rather than preached it. In which case, it is just an honest expression of herself rather than an exercise in didacticism.
I have seen many Rand interviews on RUclips but this one was the most informative. The interviewer was not confrontational...he just camly asked questions and she calmly responded. I totally agree with her views about faith and God but not about abstract art. She has made some ignorant and offensive comments in the past that would not hold up today. For example: calling Native Americans "savages" that deserved to be conquered. Still ..a fascinating lady.
Humans are born into the arms of a mother. There is a dependency without which we could not live. It is a social dyad in which 'love' is crucial for development. The baby cannot be self-sufficient. The baby learns to become independent over many years, yet he/she typically would continue to value the parental love. Empathy is developed as is insight to another human who therefore is no longer an 'object', even though he/she lives behind a different physiognomy, ' (There are unfortunate examples when a baby does not receive loving care. Some died even though they had been fed.) The experience of genuine parental 'love' contributes to establishing contact between humans that are objectively separate. Physics and a meta-analysis of parapsychological experiments (mind interconnectedness of 1.3x10 to 104 places probability) indicates we are more interconnected if not interdependent than the conscious mind can consciously perceive. Believing one can be the sole author of one's thoughts and self-care would be illusion.
Interesting set design.
I believe I reasoned!
People listen to her and dont understand. You can still have reason lead you to faith. Love is a selfish desire it isnt altruistic. It doesnt take a lot of logic and willpower to understand that what is best for yourself is often doing what is best for others. Yes that is selfish.....
She still either innately or by early conditioning had the moral template from Moses code . It was at least in her sub. So yes she lived life but she had a template under her shoes as foundation. She knew it but ignored it . Otherwise this woman would have been a monster
Interesting idea...
I love AYN RAND....so natural to me.
She was so wise.
Brave woman
interesting take on charity.
I'd even go further, there must be value in the person helped meaning the person can bring value to overall well-being of a society in return otherwise it is a waste of resources. as in triage
I love you, Ayn Rand.
She’s my hero.
what year is this interview???
27:22 - says at the very end, 1974
Shes very matter of fact.
oh, very much so & a refreshing woman because of that
Or very much matter of theory if you will.
24:07
On abstract art.
Initially, a religious person such as myself would red flag this woman's philosophy, but in the long run I fully agree with her. In the Mike Wallace interview she declared that her support of her husband, if necessary, stemmed from her "SELFISH" love for him. If we are all free to choose our own destiny, those many among us who possess the altruism and self sacrifice for our fellow man will accomplish the same OBJECTIVES (!) as the current tax-heavy system THINKS it does; we will voluntarily kick in a fair share to such causes.
@shuroom57
Stephen Bonser
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Let's not forget that Ayn Rand, a life long chain smoker, lived her last days on public assistance and under free medical care for her lung cancer courtesy of the American Medicare system. Turns out it's just a lot of words brilliantly put together.
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She is a smart and very articulate woman. No question, ...but
I cannot say I wholly agree with her worldview. . This idea of the individual verses the collective, objectivism as she calls it., sounds terribly right, as she begins to define it, and I believe some aspects of it are. However, I think it's a fundamentally flawed Philosophy. I truly believe her atheism has played a big part in the formulation of her ideology. Thank you for this video.
Her russian accent here is stronger than in her earlier interviews, see "The Mike Wallace Interview with Ayn Rand".
Is it? Wallace even emphasised that she said "faith," because in that 1959 interview, her accent made it sound like she was saying "face."
If you plant the seed it will grow.
Reason is as material as squash.
《atalas shrugged》,一本能改变你价值观的书
Une pensée forte.
Moi aussi
Act on what you know is rational. Do no do evil.
This was not her format to say the least. She wasn't a "Philosopher:," or a "Writer", or any of those noisy things. She was a Woman of Ideas though. 8:50 for those that think that she was black and white.
Rand's book The Fountainhead was too-intellectual and obviously non-commercial said the publishers and yet the public made the book a best-seller. This is another example of those in charge so to speak controlling the minds of the public.
I LOVE her cold hard reason....ideals of economy
Life is too short for waste
It's weird how both she and Irving Stone said they started to write (or wanted to be a writer) at the age of nine, on the same show.
I wanted to be a writer at the age of nine too-and an astronomer at the age of eleven, a classical composer at the age of twelve, a rock guitarist at the age of sixteen. I wanted to be a Beatle at the age of eight and James Bond at the age of ten. At the age of five I wanted to be a grocery-store clerk. It doesn’t matter when you WANTED to do something; it only matters when you actually did it-and whether you did it continuously from then on. (As it happens, I did, in fact, write stories at the age of nine and music from the age of eleven and so on, but I did lots of things back then. I didn’t have to earn a living.)
she was a genius--who is john gault? Dagny Taggart my heroine
I’ve read Atlas Shrugged several times, enjoying it each time (except for John Galt’s tedious and plodding peroration, which I skipped on subsequent readings), much as I enjoyed twice reading Robert Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land”, for example: that is, in the way that I enjoy engaging genre fiction. While reading Atlas I projected myself into the protagonist, as one is wont to do, but I wonder why you should take her as your heroine otherwise. Because she flits capriciously from lover to lover? Because she inherited her wealth and position from her father? Because she resists any decision involving her company that might not serve to maximize profit, even if it-rather, particularly if it-cuts off railroad service to those who desperately need it? Because she rails against rejection of the gold standard even though gold obviously has no intrinsic value? (It happens to be shiny, hence its appeal to primitives.)
As a Christian (and not necessarily a very good one) I agree with a lot of Ayn Rand's assertions, of course with exceptions. I know Ayn Rand was an adamant atheist but for me personally (since I'm using my own reason), I find added joy when after a long, brutal winter, I see that first daffodil coming up, knowing fully well that I didn't create that flower. It was created for me and its own environs. Since no man created it, the answer must lie elsewhere. I choose God because it brings me happiness and I'm selfish. This is not a falsehood to me because it took me many years of thought to reach this conclusion that I feel is in my own best interest.
I see!
I appreciate your points.
I have been doing a great deal of research. Positive psychology, philospphy, Ayn Rand and The Bible.
Modern positive psycology embraces spirituality because it is proven scientifically. Ergo, Rand would be forced to notice, Jesus was a great philosopher too. Of course, those who can't be bothered to understand the Bible are judging on "feeling", not concept. Rands concepts of good and evil are modern, but the concept, not by any means is original. Truly rational, except her hope of mankind (John Galt) makes us all into saviours, if we want to be. Hmmm.
the promotion of the daffodil by humans helps that flower to evolve and flourish...so that is a relationship and not works of any creator god, but good and bad are a matter of use, so whatever floats your boat
Ayn Rand used the term “selfish” equivocally. This is rhetorical sleight of hand for rhetorical effect. “Selfishness” is a quality, not a thing, and thus its pejorative aspect is part and parcel of its denotative meaning. The word cannot reasonably be denuded of its pejorative intent. If you object to its premise, you’re certainly welcome to avoid it altogether or to complain about it, but Rand, rather, twists its meaning to be provocative and still seem virtuous (by her own lights), to have her cake and eat it too. That’s not arguing in good faith. The term “selfish” does not mean “self-reliant”, “”self-confident”, “self-sufficient”, or anything of the sort, just as “childish” doesn’t mean “child-like.” If I were to conflate the latter two terms, I could argue that because it’s admirable to be innocent, playful, and open, it’s also admirable to be petulant and unruly. Clearly there’s a breach of logic here, and it’s the same breach Rand commits every time she extols what she calls “selfishness”.
Someone in her position has not benefit in claiming they believe in God. It just mixes things up and the sheep go crazy with opinions.
People like this. Just don’t exist anymore.. we depend on technology can’t exist without it.. sadly
Sounds great in theory.
"Reality is the final arbiter."
Bingo
Career romantic love ?? It’s exactly what I miss in my life. 2023. Hardly exist these days. I trying about everything in my 26 years of marriage. No life. It’s work pay bills and repeat till you die. Hmm
(emotional) responsibility! imagine
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never thought I'd hear a woman say that about feelings ...I know so many women that treat their feelings as if they are more important than facts and reality
Well said. I agree
High School Students should read at least one of her novels.....at least as a counterpoint to the collectivistic society we now live in an as a nod to the expression of individualism, now lost in stupid social media. Animal Farm, 1984 and Brave New World should be thrown in there as well.
WHO IS JOHN GALT
Dearest Ayn Rand, please marry me! I know you are gone! But like Marilyn Monroe, you have a billion people who love you. Both men and women. I was introduced to you while working in Ringling Brothers Barnum Bailey Circus and the Fountainhead was a love letter from you, given to me by the General Manager of the Red Unit. I was never so taken by a literary story. That is until Atlas Shrugged. WOW 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙😍.
I wish I would had met you. But now it's a little late. The Greatest Show on Earth was a easy place to live out the hardships of the human experience. Striving to enjoy the life I'd chosen as a child in school. Living where I work. Working where I live. The Greatest Show on Earth gave me what my Father instilled in me. Don't quit. Think before you act. Mother gave me quitters never win, winners never quit. You gave me a girl to be on the lookout for Dagny💜Taggart 👍😍.
You can still meet her serious heirs (Peikoff and Binswanger)
She would have loved The polity of Beasts
charismatic spices she is
I love this bitch.
yet a derogatory epithet.
To elevate reason above the heart of man is the most unintelligent thing you can do. Man is more than the sum of his/her parts. This kind of reductionism has lead mankind down many blind alleys and enabled the narcissists and psychopaths to predate on the unwary. Those who know nothing of love and wisdom are not qualified to define who and what we are.
For 'The Heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing' (Pascal)
9:42 is where she and I meld.
The trans movement needs this.
Wow I wonder if I get some of my let's say chillier aspects of my personality from the Russian way of thinking
THE ULTIMATE INTJ , im a man of reason , its like we have the same brain , lol
Yours seems rather unpunctuated.
@@herbertwells8757 like it matters lol
She looks like my mother, my mother was Jewish.
My dear fellow, who will let you?
That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?
How about kindness?
If you reason through it and decide that kindness is a trait that you admire then i guess Rand would probably suggest that you pursue socialising with kind people. She would want those people to be kind through choice rather than obligation though.
@@tribalisnt Kindness is communicating that you enjoy interacting with others, it is a shell in which the message is contained, a la McLuhan if you want, in that sense it is neither a choice nor an obligation, it is a state of mind that flows without conscious intervention. Wouldn't it be a natural way of being human, wouldn't cold efficiency be a choice instead? Her way of being herself makes me very uncomfortable, I cannot say why.
@@rosesprog1722 I would say that both are a choice and most people can be both cold and kind, there is no kind default so to speak. She would want you to be yourself (as long as you are thinking through your decisions in a rationale way) and if you do that and don't like her she'd probably like you. Her delivery and mannerisms aren't everyones cup of tea but she's cool.
Define kindness. if you mean giving the poor money, I believe you're not being kind. Your being altruistic and it causes more damage to that person's life than it helps. If you mean helping that person by giving them advice, becoming their friend, etc. I'm all for it.
@@scottm8579 Oh no, kindness is a state of mind, like smiling, saying a nice word, listening well, softness, not being rude, etc... it is caring about what you say but also about how you say it.
Who decides what’s rational?
On state-funded television. hehe.