Scary how much of her works have moved from philosophy and science fiction to news stories in the last few years. There's a point in "Atlas Shrugged" where her fictional US Government is shipping oil overseas to allies during a crippling domestic shortage. I was like "Yeah, right- little bit farfetched there, Ayn." Sonofagun, it happened in 2020.
I was lucky enough to discover Ayn Rand back in the early 90s when I was in my 20s, she completely changed my life. She did some great work with Natheniel Brandon and others which I have also read.
Very insightful. What I found powerful is the section where she speaks about the pointlessness of doing good on others by force as it takes away the judgement and application of independent mind by the others and serves the opposite purpose.
Indeed, this folds well into what Sowell would call the "constrained vision" of man, in that force is never permitted because one's understanding of good, as obvious and unarguable it may seem, is ultimately imperfect and has too great a potential for abuse. This stance leads to some small problems, for example, one might have a hard time deciding whether it is moral to push another out of the way of a speeding car - arguments like "it's moral to do whatever the other person would reasonably ask others to do in their stead had they the opportunity" don't quite cut it.
I have read all her works, including some of her associates. Look up her writing called The Meaning Of Money and The Meaning Of Sex. Her ideas when expressed is like peeling an onion
"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 individual’s rights to freedom of action, speech, and association; self-responsibility, NOT self-indulgence; and 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 and say, ” . . .and that’s what I reject”? --Barbara Branden
I find it fascinating how, so many years after her death, collectivists still viciously and relentlessly attack Rand. It is actually a very good sign. It shows that we are slowly penetrating the culture and overcoming hundreds of years of immoral indoctrination. The fact that collectivists still consider her such a threat and fear her ideas to such an extent indicates that they are afraid. They SHOULD be. Their entire self-image is built upon an evil premise: that in order to prove you are of value, you must tear down people of actual value. I would find it disappointing if, instead, Rand's critics simply ignored her.
@@guyfauks2576 What is it you find so funny about Ayn Rand's writing, Guy? Is it the fact that she advocated the use of reason as your primary means of survival? Is it the idea that we settle our disputes WITHOUT the use of FORCE? Is it that YOU should be responsible for taking care of your own life? We all like a good laugh, Guy. Tell us what you find so humorous.
@jtsjtsm7920 You are wrong . Slave labour is not capitalism . Slaves are sapient beings that can not own private property and their individual rights are not recognized by the state . Slavery in the USA was merely one of the last vestiges of the collectivism of Europe and the rest of the world . Slavery without Altruism is not possible . A egoist does not make a good slave . A good slave is one that evades reality , has hope , has faith and believes that his slavery is merely being a good individual by not serving only himself .
@@normagilliot706 Slave owners, aka corporations, used slaves to minimize costs. Not unlike opening offshore factories and offices. Not unlike introducing automation, computer technology, and AI to manufacture products, it ultimately serves the bottom line. Of course, slavery is reprehensible, exploitative, evil, and immoral, and thank god that time is 'mostly' gone, but from a means of production perspective, it's all about maximizing profits and minimizing costs. That's capitalism, and it is brutal.
@jtsjtsm7920 No. You're wrong. A nation without borders is no nation, you're arguing ignorantly and subversively. Maybe go get a Generals attention before you start talking because I could hurt you and live with myself.
Perfectly explained. I can't think of any other intellectual who created as dramatic a shift in my thinking as Ayn Rand did. I will be forever grateful for her contributions.
Just another capitalist arrogant parrot... Capitalism can be a dictatorship just like any other system! We actually saw this in the crash of 2008 where banks and governments went to people bank accounts and hijacked money to pay their Wall Street gambling. Or in the pandemic where they forced us to stay at home and get vaccines... So that Big pharma makes all the money. Or pays their investments whatever... Also they get all the priviliges through governments where they can evade taxes and fines. Which it actually helps them to stay rich. And I can give you another "small" example... You cannot tell me that a tree as a monetary value! Because it belongs to nature, naturally... Now what you DO to a tree can have value for sure. But will it be good or bad?? Because chopping down trees for money is not exactly a good thing... For you, me and others. Because we ALL depend on their production of Oxygen to stay alive. At this point one should ask... Does a tree belong to you? Or to us? And let's say for example you're filthy rich... You can buy alllllll the land, all the countries, you own EVERYTHING. And you decide, for some crazy reason, to chop down all the trees because you need 'Da money'... Your wealth shouldn't override Science or Life. And that's my point.... Money is a CONSTRUCT. It doesn't override natural real things! They can't be bought or sold, or have private ownership... In a way. The planet doesn't belong to nobody nor it does belong to everybody
@@Trip4man What you described is NOT Capitalism. That is Corporatism, which is what the US system has evolved to since the 1887 passage of the Interstate Commerce Act. Our economy is completely controlled by the federal government today. In a Capitalist system, NO government intervention in the economy is permitted.
@@tefky7964 Corporatocracy is what we have now, WITH government control. The only way corporations can wield so much power is if we allow government to wield power. Then corporations can use money and influence to BUY that power from corrupt government bureaucrats. In a free Capitalist society, corporations would not be able to buy power from government officials because government wouldn't have any power to sell.
@@wsovalle you have just described marxism. And marxism is taught in every university. The most destructive, hateful and irrational "philosophy" ever created
@@venusbonjour9303 Mysticism includes religion. It also includes things that are not associated with religion today. Believe it or not, Buddhism is considered atheism in some places. Also, superstitions are not considered to be a religion. But, mysticism is wider. It is anything taken on faith. Even populism of Trump, which got him elected, is a form of mysticism.
@Boris Reitman mysticism as used by Ayn Rand is perfectly used as to mean any altered level of consciousness including ghosts to anything supernatural. She used that word on purpose she was an atheist. Anything that goes against a rational mind would be mysticism. Ayn Rand was a completely rational person who did not believe in any form of spirituality.
Eu tbem. E depois desse vídeo me sinto uma total ignorante frente ao que essa mulher magnífica disse. Esse final sobreo.motivo do capitalismo ser destruído e revelador pra mim.
Because your parents didn’t know of her existence. My son just turned 12 and he knows about her because I’m into her philosophy. Not to brag but my son knows a lot more than many adults. And why is that? It’s because I’m is teacher and guardian.
This woman has a way of explaining things that are easy to grasp, and should be quite obvious to anyone with a brain! It’s amazing how relevant it is to today’s society! It’s an ominous warning that we are going down the wrong path, and the very ideas presented here are not only not being taught, but the alternate view is being indoctrinated into young minds!
@Foxaurus I'm not reading all that lol soon as I saw too big to fail banks I see you don't understand the difference between true free market capitalism and crony capitalism that in which we have today. If we stayed the economic course Ayn Rand talks about and didn't constitute a Federal Reserve we would be in a FAR better position than today.
@Foxaurus In a free market capitalist country (unlike the mixed economy we currently have), the government cannot assist, hinder, or control any individual, group, business, or industry. All it can do and must do is protect individual rights of all the people. That means that there can be no corporate bailouts under a capitalist system. You should be begging for capitalism.
Grew up in a collectivist culture as an autistic person, I rebelled quite hard against the conformity and the homogeneity. I remember quite vividly the refreshing feeling when I read fountainhead in middle school. Ayn Rand will always have a special place in my mind for articulating my thoughts and feelings so well.
@John Cocca Artwork is physical. Music is physical. Mechanics are physical. Novels are physical. Essays are physical. So these physical things can be your property. Discoveries of Natural Properties are not the property of the discoverer. Totally disagree. Intellect is not a property it is a quality.
@John Cocca Shame on me for not selling my book before I let someone read it. How dumb was I? Murder and defense are absolutely physical. Murder is the Initiation of Violent force and theft which are evil. Defense is Right Use of Force which is good. Both are real and physical.
@@venusbonjour9303 no, she was intentionally separating the two; they are not the same. While many religions may believe in the supernatural, they also advocate for free will and morality. I am free to join _and leave_ a given religion. I am free to question a religion. The organizations you are thinking of are cults where you are free to join, but coerced into staying and forbidden to ask questions. Given this example, do you _really_ believe that she doesn’t know the term ‘religion’?
@venusbonjour I think Sun Rand use the word mysticism because it is all encompassing to define any form of a religious experience whether it be ghosts or anything having to do with an altered level of consciousness. I find the word to be perfect and it's definition. Anything that defies our senses as a rational person such as mysticism should be called into question.
"Reason is mans means of survival. And that man prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality." This is the foundation of freedom and free markets. The problem is, most people would rather feel safe than be free.
21:35 This sector explains 2 of the quotes I constantly refer to: 1. Thomas Sowell's Conflict of Visions: Unconstrained Vision vs. Constrained Vision. Sowell's Unconstrained Vision corresponds to Rand's Intrinsic+Subjective mixture school. Sowell's Constrained Vision corresponds to Rand's Objective school. 2. Ludwig von Mises once said "Every socialist is a disguised dictator". So far Rand's explanation is the best justification of Mises's conclusion.
@@paulgibbons2320 On the contrary of what u claim, you can put laws to limit and restrict capitalists all the time, but you cannot put limits and restrictions on those "self-anointed", aka. self-appointed saviors, such as Robespeirre, Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Polpot, et al. So please rethink the logic behind ur argument.
@@pablorossi1760 , I'm not sure what you mean. People should be paid according to their contribution. Expropriating wealth from other people's labor is immoral. For example, if you take 50% of the honey from a beehive, you are forcing the bees to work 50% longer. Why do you think people are still working 40 hours a week after a hundred and fifty years? It's because all increases in productivity are siphoned off by the owners of capital. If you own capital, you own and control the increases. If you own a cow, you own and control everything the cow produces. If you give a cow bovine growth hormone to double milk production, does that result in the cow working half the number of hours? Of course not. Do you think that you can go and pick a million apples a day? Of course not. Don't be ridiculous. You're not stupid? Are you? You really think that human being can go and earn a million dollars a day or a month with their own labor? Of course not. Billionaires shouldn't even exist. The only reason a billionaire exists is because they are able to expropriate Libra energy from other human beings. Come on! Think about it. We have an economic system where those who do all the work get paid the least amount of money and those who do the least amount of work get paid the most. Are you ready or mine? Honestly? You don't see the problem yet?
@@Appleriver3 What's the alternative? Should capital be distributed by government? People who have more simply have more, and want to have more, that's why people (should be competing) in capitalism. The problems you mentioned are the results of cronyism the debt based monetary system and too many taxes, this is not capitalism's fault. True laissez-faire capitalism with sound money is the best system we know. Corrupt cronyism and corporatism is where we are at today.
@@JFCotman I don't want a boss creating unnecessary air pollution from coke batteries in steel mills because he doesn't want to spend the money to clean up the mess he was creating. Suppose someone builds a structure that prevents sun from reaching photoelectric panels on a homes roof top? Same with water pollution. If you bury 55 gallon drums on you land with toxic waste and then they leak into the ground water who owns the ground water? .
@@christinabutterfield1801 Not true in my view, Freedom is part of Capitalism it has to be. Socialism needs force, to work, Hence why those who are failures, envious and full of hate are more attracted to it. What you are taking about is cronyism, which is a human problem, which is why good law is needed, its the lack of that mostly caused by Public sector ie Government
Bake been you mean all the people who voluntary accept social security retirement payments are failures, envious, and full of hate? Even Ayn Rand received social security retirement- which, according to her, is “using force” to rob Peter to pay Paul. Her philosophy is circular logic nonsense.
@@ikant312 she did so because her taxes had paid for it, there is many facts about Ayn Ryan's last few years, I too use the UK system, because the money has been forced from me so I'll use it, if a car dealer steals money off you and the only way to get it back is to take a car, then you better believe I'm going to get my car. Thanks for your comment, btw its the idea not the person that matters, just like it's not the colour of the skin but what they say. 😁
Bake been nonsense- her taxes weren’t saved in a retirement account- it was taken by force from someone else to give to her. I would say what Rand would say - she should have saved for retirement- not rely on the altruism of others.
The final statements were so powerful it brought tears to my eyes. Capitalism must be cherished and protected. Commenting in 2024 in the world of woke.
Public schools will NEVER teach a subject that would likely result in their demise. If people truly understood this philosophy, they would immediately eliminate MOST of what government does today...including and perhaps especially public education.
I was about the same age as you when I discovered AYn Rand..... consider yourself lucky. The education system in the west has been infiltrated by leftist nuts, which are inturned financed by the deep state. Their method is always divide and conquer
Very appreciated and thankful that I had found this video. I'm into business administration in general. I had learned fruitfully from this video on this topic.
One of the great tragedies of our Anti-Reason, anti-intellectual world is that introducing things like this to the general public is akin to teaching children calculus before they get the hang of multiplication and division. SO much more fundamental knowledge is needed first, like what IS philosophy, WHY do we need it (or DO we need it?), what are its main branches, how does all that lead to Capitalism (or ANY social/political/economic system), etc. Without answers to these, Capitalism is (at best) a "floating abstraction" in peoples' minds, unconnected to reality, and at worst a sinister unintelligible "enemy" that they cannot understand, so it must be defeated. THIS is where our Government-Run Socialist (Mis)Educational Indoctrination Centers has taken us.
Einstein was a global socialist what a bunch of lies. Cars, Tesla, light bulbs, kitchen appliances... - all of these are invented by private initiatives.
David not true these are truths known in the heart of every man do youth just need to be educated that this has been a ideological battle for over a hundred years and they'll come to the correct conclusion postmodernism Marxism and Neo Marxism it's been the ruling ideology that's why it doesn't make sense if we raise our kids to know that the majority of people are lazy thieves and would kill you for what's yours before earning at themselves it would all be very easy to understand you're either good or evil
@@robward7542it's not good or evil unless you know what you are doing is but say for instance when an employer of the railway is demanding that anyone needing a job will have to live by his law's on the job that requires traveling and completion of the railway before he is paid in full not to mention the risks of death is that good or evil? So there are some stories of employer's being oblivious to the employees and other's doing the best they could without having a law to force them to have a sanitary work place breaks and lunch a pension with leniency to sick or injured workers it was fought for in most cases but that's Marxism unionized workforce but a farmer doesn't have breaks they work till they are done so does a writer or an artist so it's like capitalism is the opportunity aspect of the constitution I suppose having learning institutions and other organizations to choose from and not have government choose for you. So Marxism is a theory I assume I really haven't studied but heard about it's unity of labor so I could be wrong about it's full extent and who used it to form a political agenda and to what extent I'm sure they are only taking part of it in use and making it their own as most people have with philosophy.
I'm revisiting this video for the first time in nearly 5 years. This isn't a complaint of the quality of the video, Just an observations. The first time I listen to it, it sounded just fine. Although I can still hear well, I'm starting to have trouble with some sounds. In this case it was the background music. It made it extremely difficult to make out the words of Ayn Rand.
I am always taken aback by how repellant Ayn Rand’s opinions are to many of the “Thinkers” of today. The level of dismissiveness that they use to denounce her is proof positive of the bankruptcy of THEIR ideas.
Everyone has an interesting path on finding Ayan Rand. I would like for anyone that reads this to comment how they found out about Ayn Rand. I found out about Ayn ran through an individual named Mike Menzer.
Einstein was a global socialist Chomsky has moral contradictions in his theories. The man has gained notoriety by being an outspoken humanist. However you do not get points for being merely compassionate.
@Einstein was a global socialist logical fallacy with an appeal to authority mate. Loads of PhDs can be wrong. I would caution you to equate an arts degree with production or discovery of the type that Rand speaks of in this lecture. Read Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations to understand the distriction.
Ayn Rand was a philosophical pit-bull as she never backed down against her detractors. She was a refreshingly intelligent spokeswoman for her thoughts. Being a physics professor, I can both admire and appreciate that fact - whether or not I’m in agreement on a particular point of discussion. Her views were her own as my views are my own. America has become an overflowing toilet of one-size (i.e., idea, notion, opinion etc.) fits all mental turds.
Respecting others implies a close enough relationship to understand how a person values their life. Giving a gift to others implies helping that person live rationally and reasonably. This is educating them on the objective world or learning from them about the objective world. Ms. Rand did this in full with her books. They are cheap and fully available to all humans. What do you do to respect others?
She supports a "might makes right" mentality: that's not genius, it's not even reason. She says objective values is the only system not determined by "rule by force", but "objective values" (which isn't objective) aka "me first, fuck everyone else for my benefit" is just the individual level of rule by force.
@@goldenquill96 You first, for things that matter to you. You first, as far as choosing your love mate. You first, as far as choosing your work domain. You don't need to "fuck everyone else" -- they are simply not in the picture in the matters that should be, properly, selfish.
This is an objective, philosophical, conceptual frame for polatical views. This approach is tied to mans very needs for survival and evolvement.. Look at how all of it is twisted these days thereby rendering the talking heads and so called experts as mental midgets.. This lady is the Einstein of philosophy and polatics. She is indeed a Legend..
Just to note that ALLLLL of these points were made a bit back before her by Nietzsche. Not so lectury, but more precisely, and concisely. I wonder if she did get some or most of her ideas from him... for over twenty eight years I have been re-reading Nietzsche and it is clear he must have had an influence on her... Great lecture overall.
@@borisreitman Even I can tell you what is WRONG with Nietzsche, but what is wrong with him pales in comparison to what is RIGHT about him and his thoughts. People went to the moon, and sure I can tell you what things they did wrong before and during the trip, but they WENT TO THE MOON and succeeded, what went right is way more than what went right, it is a product of their times. Get it?? Denying Nietzsche because his truths are hard and harsh is not logical. I can tell you the many many people who have shown what is RIGHT with N.... but what for?? All I see is Rand took many concepts from him.
@@ggrthemostgodless8713 The good thincs in Nietzsche are not his original thinking. It comes from Aristotle, the only philosopher Ayn Rand stated as reference. Also, the idea of the greatness of man was the prevalent idea in Greece. You can see this in that their mythology had men, not animals, as gods.
@@borisreitman I don't even know what to say to THAT... we just have to agree to disagree. But Rand's "philosophy" is not even a philosophy. Enough said. Good luck. At least we are all searching.
I can see how this perfectly meshes with her story Atlas shrugged.that brilliant novel was essentially her giving capitalism the unknown ideal a story.
I love capitalism because it allows me to fail or succeed based on my choice. How much you choose to work for your success or learn from your failure to try again
My question after watching this is to what extent has psychological advertising and narrative control degraded the rationality of capitalist citizens? Can we expect people to act in their self interest when they aren’t being properly educated by the institutions and both parents have been intentionally remanded to the workforce just to survive. What percentage of the average American has any disposable income left after their basic needs are met?
@@marielicampos5097 I just finish looking that book up before you replied. It seems very interesting considering the fact that I've been a victim of that type of thinking that putting myself first is bad.
"The Virtue of Selfishness" is one of Ayn Rand's best books it's like a primer of her philosophy. Unfortunately the title has turned so many people off this book. Be BRAVE you must read this! It has nothing to do with being selfish.
That is one of the few things I disagree with Ayn Rand on. She believed in a limited government, while I (like you) believe in a society free from government.
@@OcculticRomantic As an anarchist myself, that's exactly my point ;) Perhaps you have conflated the ideas of chaos and anarchy. They are distinctly different from one another. Violence and chaos are orthogonal to the idea of anarchy. Anarchy is simply the idea of 'a society free of the State'. That's literally the definition. Many anarchists (I call them crazy people) espouse violent revolution and destruction, but not all anarchists believe that, and indeed, is NOT what anarchy _is._ Indeed, anarchists like me aim for the elimination of the State, but not at the expense of innocent lives and private property. The revolution _can_ (and must) be peaceful via education and leadership by example. For the record, I am an anarcho-capitalist (ancap for short). We believe in private property, the non-aggression principle (NAP), and completely voluntary exchange of goods and services. Note that the non-aggression principle allows for the use of force in self-defense ONLY, and ONLY in _response_ to an initiation of force by another. I understand your confusion. There is a lot of propaganda out there. "There has to be some type hierarchy" You are absolutely correct. Anarchy is NOT the same thing as an absence of hierarchy, rather it allows for hierarchies to organically form, exist, and evolve freely and naturally. Anarchists (especially anarcho-capitalists like myself) espouse free markets and voluntary associations. Private property is naturally an absolute requirement, as is the privatization of ALL state functions. The most stable and free hierarchies are those that are emergent in a free marketplace of ideas.
@@Nicholas_Terry Explain to me how you can advocate for private property rights, yet not permit any authority to enforce that right. I can't envision a world in which there is NOT hierarchy that enforces private property rights. If I own a ranch, and my neighbor wants a portion of my land to graze his cattle, how do I stop him from simply fencing in my property for his own use? Do I simply tear down the fence? There is a cost in doing that. Do I tell him to pay to tear down the fence? How do I enforce that edict? Explain it to me because I LOVE the concept of NO GOVERNMENT but I don't see the practicality of it.
Point being if everyone respects each other's privacy, no one would be infringing on someone else's property. That's where right of self preservation comes in.
There is a saying that " if you are not a communist before 25 then you don't have a heart and if you are a communist after 25 then you don't have a brain ". At the age of 25+ we realize the reality of the society and will come to know that communism doesn't work the same as it is described in Marx's Communist manifesto. And why most of us behave as a communist before 25 is that we are driven by our emotions and caught in the trap of the heroic altruistic feeling.
I entered this video expecting a remarkable thinker. However, she starts off being completely wrong about many things. ・She says that every living species has to follow a certain course of action required by its nature in order to sustain its life. This is simply not true, because all around us life and history shows us that there are many different courses of action which allows species to thrive - unless you choose to believe in absolute determinism, which doesn't seem to be what Ayn is going for here. ・She is right about how our rational, or rather cognitive, abilities are what sets us apart from other species. We're not that different from other animals after all, but it is not that we can think and they cannot - it is that we have much greater capability to do so than other animals, hence our prefrontal cortex. ・She continues to reason that some humans use this rational thinking and achieve great things needed for survival, while others choose to not think and instead survive by somehow parasitizing on those who do think. It is incredibly ignorant to make this, utterly arbitrary, division of people and it opens up for racism, eugenics and other such horrors. She is in a sense arguing for the idea of the thinking 'übermensch' and comparing it to the non-thinking, parasitizing 'untermensch'. I am not saying that Ayn Rand was a racist, she herself seems to have argued against racism by calling it "[...] the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.". She is, however, using the same reason of thinking, which in my opinion grants palpable risks of reaching similar results - dividing humanity into us/them or thinking/non-thinking human beings. Modern research consistently shows how the ability to think is dependant on many biological and social factors - without food we become stupid before we die from starvation, and without teachers (parents, friends, school etc.) our ability to learn and think is greatly reduced. Wow, this got long and only touched the very beginning of the video. Let me know if I got anything wrong!
Having listened to this presentation by Miss Rand, she unequivocally demonstrates that she does not know the difference between capitalism and democracy. Capitalism is an economic financial system whereas democracy is a political system. She never mentioned when, why and how capitalism started and how it has evolved over the last two centuries. Whereas democracy was practiced by the Greeks two thousand years ago. She has said that she studied history when she was in Russia, well capitalism is not history. In capitalism when you incur a debt to another party, it’s not free, you have to pay it back! Incredible!
I don't know what to make of her. Yes she is very interesting to listen too and gives one a whole other view on life that what we see as normal. If we were all selfish would it be a better or nastier world? Who knows? What about the sick, physically or mentally challenged, old and unable to provide for themselves well do we just throw them all under the bus? Does limited government build highways etc or do we rely on all thoae selfish men and women to get the job done? In theory it might seem exciting but in actuality I am not sure it would work. Her lack of caring for anyone other than her spouse seems well callous and if we all subscribe to the same theory would it not be a rather cold distant world? She saw a sky scraper as more impressive of mans creation than the sky or its many other beautiful wonders. She has definitely given one room to think when it comes to her work and most certainly has to be admired for putting together a philosophy that well is different too what yall subscribe too. 🌐
@@Veldtian1 Neither did Edison. The incandescent bulb went through a number of changes from its first design. It's basic advantage is its cheap to build and can be designed to work on any stable voltage source commonly available from as low as that of 1.25 volts and as high as 277 volts. Since they are almost a pure resistive load the same bulb works on DC or AC on any common low frequency power source at the same voltage. No special current limiting or spark initiation circuitry is required. It is usually the lowest efficiency way to create light from an electricity.
This is a flaw of Ayn Rand. She died before the cheaters and rip off artists ruined this nation, and the mass's values and morals got trashier and trashier. The cheaters deregulated international production and outsourced everything, so that the imitators have since been forever beating the innovators and inventors and even the hard working producers. She did not foresee corporate elite globalist rip off artists stealing all of the wealth through deception (they own the media), trickery (they infiltrated the government in order to change the laws so they could cheat and steal more), and they gutted the country over the last 50 years of all manufacturing, jobs, and production. And they hide their money in offshore bank accounts to lie and cheat further.all that valiant honest production in this movie has been lost since her era. And her idealism only works with a base foundation of altruism and morality with a lack of force. She was unrealistic. Even in her era, you can't have a major sport with out a major referee staff. Cheaters cheat!
@@gordonquigg9389She knew, the fountainhead deals with many of these themes, I think the bigger flaw is that everything you outline is the result of those individuals acting in their rational self-interest at a global scale. if you can get things cheaper elsewhere, why shouldn't you? I think she would argue that individuals don't have a responsibility to the nation much less hard working producers who are too expensive to compete. She was writing at a time when America was mired in the Cold War and capitalism stood in stark contrast to socialism. Now capitalism rules and her chickens have come home to roost.
Cowering under rocks until she stops talking. After that, they go forth aping her, practising the fallacies Rand introduced here. Context omission and theft of concept. 😆
Imagine you have a big playground (we'll call this the "market"). In this playground, everyone wants to play with the best toys (these are like "houses" in the adult world). Now, in an ideal playground, every kid should get a turn to play with whatever toy they want. But what if only one part of the playground, let's call them "big groups" (these are like "corporations" in the real world), keep grabbing all the best toys first and don't share? Some kids, we'll call them "renters," want to play too, but they can't because the big groups have all the toys. These big groups sometimes act like they are just one person and say, "These are my toys only!" But because they have so many toys, they start saying, "If you want to play, you have to give me something." But they ask for too much, so many kids can't play at all. Now, there’s this person, let's call her "Ms. Rand," who thinks that everyone should be able to get their own toys without too much interference. But she doesn’t talk much about how the big groups can make it hard for individual kids to get any toys. Also, imagine if kids from another playground (these are "foreign investors") come over and start giving their snacks to the big groups in exchange for playing with the toys. This makes it even harder for the regular kids to get a chance. So, when we say "The free market is not free in one lifetime," it's like saying, in this playground, not every kid gets a chance to play with the best toys, even if they wait a long, long time. And Ms. Rand’s idea is like saying everyone should fend for themselves, but she doesn’t say much about how the big groups or kids from other playgrounds can make this really hard.
In the current economic situation, the wealth gap between the rich, the middle class and the rest of the population is wider than at any time in history. The government is controlled by wealthy plutocrats, oligarchs and their sycophants. When capitalism is pushed to such an extreme imbalance it becomes fascism. Rand advocated for unfettered capitalism which eventually leads to fascism. What she promoted was unmeasured and unbalanced, consequently unsophisticated as confirmed by former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.
The thing with capitalism is there’s a large percentage of people that are limited. They don’t have the capabilities of others. That’s where we blame the system. Yet the problem is equality. People want to be free but their successes finically undermine others. The solution isn’t socialism but a better regulation of capitalism. In theory you need traits from communism socialism and capitalism for society to function in balance with every person. With all of their natural capabilities and talents.
In 2021, Americans need to study Ayn Rand's philosophy more than ever before in their history.
I admire this woman.
well, maybe ignore her definition of capitalism (that is not what it means)
Lmao she criticized others for welfare then ended up using it herself.
In 2022, too.
@@edgaraf9411 Rand was forced to take part in the welfare system.
I've just discovered her. Her wisdom rings true. How wonderful that it is preserved here. Thanks for the video
Scary how much of her works have moved from philosophy and science fiction to news stories in the last few years. There's a point in "Atlas Shrugged" where her fictional US Government is shipping oil overseas to allies during a crippling domestic shortage. I was like "Yeah, right- little bit farfetched there, Ayn." Sonofagun, it happened in 2020.
I was lucky enough to discover Ayn Rand back in the early 90s when I was in my 20s, she completely changed my life. She did some great work with Natheniel Brandon and others which I have also read.
Her wisdom? She died broke on social assistance.
@@woodytobiasjr8265 she died, leaving an estate of slightly over half $1 million
@@petercini2022 no she didn't, stop lying.
Very insightful. What I found powerful is the section where she speaks about the pointlessness of doing good on others by force as it takes away the judgement and application of independent mind by the others and serves the opposite purpose.
If the mind is independent than why should you bother listening to her? After all just like free markets independent minds solve all problems. LMAO.
@@kimobrien.Wow, your Dumb.
Indeed, this folds well into what Sowell would call the "constrained vision" of man, in that force is never permitted because one's understanding of good, as obvious and unarguable it may seem, is ultimately imperfect and has too great a potential for abuse.
This stance leads to some small problems, for example, one might have a hard time deciding whether it is moral to push another out of the way of a speeding car - arguments like "it's moral to do whatever the other person would reasonably ask others to do in their stead had they the opportunity" don't quite cut it.
Wow!!! What an amazing Woman!!!! Almost brought tears to my eyes, so timeless and beautifully expressed.
I have read all her works, including some of her associates. Look up her writing called The Meaning Of Money and The Meaning Of Sex. Her ideas when expressed is like peeling an onion
Ah ah ah, remember to use reason not subjectivity 😌
"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 individual’s rights to freedom of action, speech, and association; self-responsibility, NOT self-indulgence; and 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 and say, ” . . .and that’s what I reject”?
--Barbara Branden
also abhorrence to altruism
I find it fascinating how, so many years after her death, collectivists still viciously and relentlessly attack Rand. It is actually a very good sign. It shows that we are slowly penetrating the culture and overcoming hundreds of years of immoral indoctrination. The fact that collectivists still consider her such a threat and fear her ideas to such an extent indicates that they are afraid. They SHOULD be. Their entire self-image is built upon an evil premise: that in order to prove you are of value, you must tear down people of actual value.
I would find it disappointing if, instead, Rand's critics simply ignored her.
the wordt part about ayn rand is that you eventually run out of oxygen to laugh with
@@guyfauks2576 What is it you find so funny about Ayn Rand's writing, Guy? Is it the fact that she advocated the use of reason as your primary means of survival? Is it the idea that we settle our disputes WITHOUT the use of FORCE? Is it that YOU should be responsible for taking care of your own life?
We all like a good laugh, Guy. Tell us what you find so humorous.
@@guyfauks2576 Yes, tell us Guy, what amuses you to the point of not being able to get oxygen? Dazzle us with your superior intellect
Please people, post and share her analysis on capitalism and a constitutional republic to all and to show that our country is NOT A DEMOCRACY!!!!
@jtsjtsm7920
You are wrong .
Slave labour is not capitalism .
Slaves are sapient beings that can not own private property and their individual rights are not recognized by the state .
Slavery in the USA was merely one of the last vestiges of the collectivism of Europe and the rest of the world .
Slavery without Altruism is not possible .
A egoist does not make a good slave .
A good slave is one that evades reality , has hope , has faith and believes that his slavery is merely being a good individual by not serving only himself .
Moron
@@normagilliot706 Slave owners, aka corporations, used slaves to minimize costs. Not unlike opening offshore factories and offices. Not unlike introducing automation, computer technology, and AI to manufacture products, it ultimately serves the bottom line. Of course, slavery is reprehensible, exploitative, evil, and immoral, and thank god that time is 'mostly' gone, but from a means of production perspective, it's all about maximizing profits and minimizing costs. That's capitalism, and it is brutal.
@jtsjtsm7920 No. You're wrong. A nation without borders is no nation, you're arguing ignorantly and subversively. Maybe go get a Generals attention before you start talking because I could hurt you and live with myself.
Perfectly explained. I can't think of any other intellectual who created as dramatic a shift in my thinking as Ayn Rand did. I will be forever grateful for her contributions.
same
Just another capitalist arrogant parrot... Capitalism can be a dictatorship just like any other system! We actually saw this in the crash of 2008 where banks and governments went to people bank accounts and hijacked money to pay their Wall Street gambling. Or in the pandemic where they forced us to stay at home and get vaccines... So that Big pharma makes all the money. Or pays their investments whatever... Also they get all the priviliges through governments where they can evade taxes and fines. Which it actually helps them to stay rich. And I can give you another "small" example... You cannot tell me that a tree as a monetary value! Because it belongs to nature, naturally... Now what you DO to a tree can have value for sure. But will it be good or bad?? Because chopping down trees for money is not exactly a good thing... For you, me and others. Because we ALL depend on their production of Oxygen to stay alive. At this point one should ask... Does a tree belong to you? Or to us? And let's say for example you're filthy rich... You can buy alllllll the land, all the countries, you own EVERYTHING. And you decide, for some crazy reason, to chop down all the trees because you need 'Da money'... Your wealth shouldn't override Science or Life. And that's my point.... Money is a CONSTRUCT. It doesn't override natural real things! They can't be bought or sold, or have private ownership... In a way. The planet doesn't belong to nobody nor it does belong to everybody
@@Trip4man What you described is NOT Capitalism. That is Corporatism, which is what the US system has evolved to since the 1887 passage of the Interstate Commerce Act. Our economy is completely controlled by the federal government today. In a Capitalist system, NO government intervention in the economy is permitted.
@@johnnynick6179 Uncontrolled capitalism? So in the end corporatocracy?
@@tefky7964 Corporatocracy is what we have now, WITH government control. The only way corporations can wield so much power is if we allow government to wield power. Then corporations can use money and influence to BUY that power from corrupt government bureaucrats.
In a free Capitalist society, corporations would not be able to buy power from government officials because government wouldn't have any power to sell.
The last 2 1/2 minutes are pure gold
@Curiouser and Curiouser thank you for your contribution.
Why is this not being taught in universities? I think most of us know the answer.
because is the anti thesis, the opposite of todays prevailing leftist ideologies
Because there's nothing here. Pure speculation and absolutely no reasoning.
@@wsovalle you have just described marxism. And marxism is taught in every university. The most destructive, hateful and irrational "philosophy" ever created
@@wsovalle I probably can show you the mathematical reasoning behind individualism next year (2024).
@@wsovalle
You a Marxist?
Probably the absolute best and most completely articulated explanation of the interface of morality and economics I’ve ever heard.
@@venusbonjour9303 Mysticism includes religion. It also includes things that are not associated with religion today. Believe it or not, Buddhism is considered atheism in some places. Also, superstitions are not considered to be a religion. But, mysticism is wider. It is anything taken on faith. Even populism of Trump, which got him elected, is a form of mysticism.
@Boris Reitman mysticism as used by Ayn Rand is perfectly used as to mean any altered level of consciousness including ghosts to anything supernatural. She used that word on purpose she was an atheist. Anything that goes against a rational mind would be mysticism. Ayn Rand was a completely rational person who did not believe in any form of spirituality.
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So confident. So eloquent. I’m sure many people will not think to critically consider and reason about these opinions.
i went to the comments first to get some impressions, yours stood out xD let's see where that video goes
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@@danielmoraes9998 que aula hein?
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Eu tbem. E depois desse vídeo me sinto uma total ignorante frente ao que essa mulher magnífica disse. Esse final sobreo.motivo do capitalismo ser destruído e revelador pra mim.
the best lecture i have ever heard
This lecture, along with Atlas Shrugged, have changed my life.
You sir need a hero
I have read The Atlas Shrugged many times and have brought all her books.
Thank you for this. It is so nice to meet living souls.
Magnificent speech, crystal clear logic, leaves no doubt in my mind.
Like most of these fools real capitalism is only possible as an unknown ideal.
Einstein said "Logic will get you from "A" to "Z" but "Imagination will get you Everywhere"
Why did i discover this lady in my 30's 😭
Errrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmm???
Is it because you had much better things to do in your childhood, teens and 20's?
@Gmoney TV wrong assumption. I just read the wrong kind of books, i was not exposed to such thoughts. I have always loved knowledge
@Gmoney TV man, why y'all presuming. 🙄
Because your parents didn’t know of her existence. My son just turned 12 and he knows about her because I’m into her philosophy. Not to brag but my son knows a lot more than many adults. And why is that? It’s because I’m is teacher and guardian.
Because like most of us, you were undereducated
This woman has a way of explaining things that are easy to grasp, and should be quite obvious to anyone with a brain! It’s amazing how relevant it is to today’s society! It’s an ominous warning that we are going down the wrong path, and the very ideas presented here are not only not being taught, but the alternate view is being indoctrinated into young minds!
"Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"
Anthem of the heart and anthem of the mind 🤘🏻
Neil's fascination with Rand's books were so evident in Rush early days.
Love it!
Wonders in the world they.....wrought!....wrought!!.......wrought!!!
Ayn rand the greatest mind in men’s history
I would not hesitate to agree. I have bought everyone of her books and treat them like my Bible
Ayn Rand’s philosophy is extremely compelling and unapologetically logical.
Ayn Rand was a brilliant woman
@Foxaurus I'm not reading all that lol soon as I saw too big to fail banks I see you don't understand the difference between true free market capitalism and crony capitalism that in which we have today. If we stayed the economic course Ayn Rand talks about and didn't constitute a Federal Reserve we would be in a FAR better position than today.
@Foxaurus Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman are 2 of my favorites.
She sure was! Wish I could of met her!
@Foxaurus
In a free market capitalist country (unlike the mixed economy we currently have), the government cannot assist, hinder, or control any individual, group, business, or industry. All it can do and must do is protect individual rights of all the people. That means that there can be no corporate bailouts under a capitalist system. You should be begging for capitalism.
Grew up in a collectivist culture as an autistic person, I rebelled quite hard against the conformity and the homogeneity. I remember quite vividly the refreshing feeling when I read fountainhead in middle school. Ayn Rand will always have a special place in my mind for articulating my thoughts and feelings so well.
Bwahahahaha! Good one mate! 😂🤣👍
What country. I was born in New Zealand and they are leftist lunatics
Without Property rights, there can be no other rights. My body is my property.
@John Cocca Idea's are of the Mind so how are they property?
@John Cocca Artwork is physical. Music is physical. Mechanics are physical. Novels are physical. Essays are physical. So these physical things can be your property.
Discoveries of Natural Properties are not the property of the discoverer. Totally disagree.
Intellect is not a property it is a quality.
@John Cocca Shame on me for not selling my book before I let someone read it. How dumb was I? Murder and defense are absolutely physical. Murder is the Initiation of Violent force and theft which are evil. Defense is Right Use of Force which is good. Both are real and physical.
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@@Mantogods
Now, now Andrew no need to get over emotional, illogical or unreasonable.
If that's the best you can do, best do nothing.
More men need Ayn Rand these days ,,,
Her explanation is crystal clear
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Which is why Im perplexed we are syruggling to apply them to each of our lives
@@venusbonjour9303 no, she was intentionally separating the two; they are not the same.
While many religions may believe in the supernatural, they also advocate for free will and morality. I am free to join _and leave_ a given religion. I am free to question a religion.
The organizations you are thinking of are cults where you are free to join, but coerced into staying and forbidden to ask questions.
Given this example, do you _really_ believe that she doesn’t know the term ‘religion’?
@venusbonjour I think Sun Rand use the word mysticism because it is all encompassing to define any form of a religious experience whether it be ghosts or anything having to do with an altered level of consciousness. I find the word to be perfect and it's definition. Anything that defies our senses as a rational person such as mysticism should be called into question.
*Ayn Rand
"Reason is mans means of survival. And that man prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality." This is the foundation of freedom and free markets. The problem is, most people would rather feel safe than be free.
21:35 This sector explains 2 of the quotes I constantly refer to:
1. Thomas Sowell's Conflict of Visions: Unconstrained Vision vs. Constrained Vision. Sowell's Unconstrained Vision corresponds to Rand's Intrinsic+Subjective mixture school. Sowell's Constrained Vision corresponds to Rand's Objective school.
2. Ludwig von Mises once said "Every socialist is a disguised dictator". So far Rand's explanation is the best justification of Mises's conclusion.
Amen
You can put limits and restrictions on anything except a capitalist.
They don't wish to be accountable to anyone.
@@paulgibbons2320 On the contrary of what u claim, you can put laws to limit and restrict capitalists all the time, but you cannot put limits and restrictions on those "self-anointed", aka. self-appointed saviors, such as Robespeirre, Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Polpot, et al. So please rethink the logic behind ur argument.
You can share this wonderful work with all you know.
However, the overwheling majority of the western world are not capable of digesting such.
Excellent and so needed in today's society.
This Video is an Awakening for me !! It Beautifully describes my core human values. Truly !! My individual goals, drive, independence. My soul !!
Really great course. I went through it earlier on the Campus website, but its great that its getting posted on UA-cam too.
This lecture is timeless.
sho846 what course is this from?
Brought to you and funded by the ruling class. LOL so you enjoyed their material?
@@Appleriver3 Key word "funded," or would you prefer it replaced with the word "nationalized" instead?
@@pablorossi1760 , I'm not sure what you mean. People should be paid according to their contribution. Expropriating wealth from other people's labor is immoral. For example, if you take 50% of the honey from a beehive, you are forcing the bees to work 50% longer. Why do you think people are still working 40 hours a week after a hundred and fifty years? It's because all increases in productivity are siphoned off by the owners of capital. If you own capital, you own and control the increases. If you own a cow, you own and control everything the cow produces. If you give a cow bovine growth hormone to double milk production, does that result in the cow working half the number of hours? Of course not. Do you think that you can go and pick a million apples a day? Of course not. Don't be ridiculous. You're not stupid? Are you? You really think that human being can go and earn a million dollars a day or a month with their own labor? Of course not. Billionaires shouldn't even exist. The only reason a billionaire exists is because they are able to expropriate Libra energy from other human beings. Come on! Think about it. We have an economic system where those who do all the work get paid the least amount of money and those who do the least amount of work get paid the most. Are you ready or mine? Honestly? You don't see the problem yet?
@@Appleriver3 What's the alternative? Should capital be distributed by government? People who have more simply have more, and want to have more, that's why people (should be competing) in capitalism. The problems you mentioned are the results of cronyism the debt based monetary system and too many taxes, this is not capitalism's fault. True laissez-faire capitalism with sound money is the best system we know. Corrupt cronyism and corporatism is where we are at today.
What a beautiful animation of her teachings.
This really bought the heart of what she’s saying to life.
Thankyou.
Who owns the air and sunlight?
@@kimobrien. who cares?
@@JFCotman I don't want a boss creating unnecessary air pollution from coke batteries in steel mills because he doesn't want to spend the money to clean up the mess he was creating. Suppose someone builds a structure that prevents sun from reaching photoelectric panels on a homes roof top? Same with water pollution. If you bury 55 gallon drums on you land with toxic waste and then they leak into the ground water who owns the ground water? .
Beautiful words, I hope one day Human beings can live up to those high standards, it would be a massive step forward for humanity.
Capitalism is what keeps people from experiencing true humanity
@@christinabutterfield1801 Not true in my view, Freedom is part of Capitalism it has to be. Socialism needs force, to work, Hence why those who are failures, envious and full of hate are more attracted to it.
What you are taking about is cronyism, which is a human problem, which is why good law is needed, its the lack of that mostly caused by Public sector ie Government
Bake been you mean all the people who voluntary accept social security retirement payments are failures, envious, and full of hate? Even Ayn Rand received social security retirement- which, according to her, is “using force” to rob Peter to pay Paul. Her philosophy is circular logic nonsense.
@@ikant312 she did so because her taxes had paid for it, there is many facts about Ayn Ryan's last few years, I too use the UK system, because the money has been forced from me so I'll use it, if a car dealer steals money off you and the only way to get it back is to take a car, then you better believe I'm going to get my car. Thanks for your comment, btw its the idea not the person that matters, just like it's not the colour of the skin but what they say. 😁
Bake been nonsense- her taxes weren’t saved in a retirement account- it was taken by force from someone else to give to her. I would say what Rand would say - she should have saved for retirement- not rely on the altruism of others.
One of the greatest minds to over walked the Earth
Whether we agree with Any Rand or not, she is not an economist. She was more of a philosopher.
Excellent presentation of capitalism from a philosopher’s perspective!
Couldn, t find any contradiction in that lecture. The best moral defence for Capitalism.
maybe try looking?
The final statements were so powerful it brought tears to my eyes. Capitalism must be cherished and protected. Commenting in 2024 in the world of woke.
Unbelievable
Worth it to listen to it many times.
Wonderful, entertaining, elevating
25 years old here…
Why did I never learn about Ayn Rand in school?
Public schools will NEVER teach a subject that would likely result in their demise. If people truly understood this philosophy, they would immediately eliminate MOST of what government does today...including and perhaps especially public education.
I was about the same age as you when I discovered AYn Rand..... consider yourself lucky. The education system in the west has been infiltrated by leftist nuts, which are inturned financed by the deep state. Their method is always divide and conquer
@@johnnynick6179 very good and so we should, as a man it is my duty
What a powerful lecture!
Alisa Zinovievna Rosenbaum a.k.a Ayn Rand, is philosophical genius. ))) She learnd a lot from Aristotle )))
There is no such thing as a collective brain love it
Great woman
Genius ♥️ love Ayn Rand
Great video, bravo!
Very appreciated and thankful that I had found this video. I'm into business administration in general. I had learned fruitfully from this video on this topic.
Powerful!
One of the great tragedies of our Anti-Reason, anti-intellectual world is that introducing things like this to the general public is akin to teaching children calculus before they get the hang of multiplication and division. SO much more fundamental knowledge is needed first, like what IS philosophy, WHY do we need it (or DO we need it?), what are its main branches, how does all that lead to Capitalism (or ANY social/political/economic system), etc.
Without answers to these, Capitalism is (at best) a "floating abstraction" in peoples' minds, unconnected to reality, and at worst a sinister unintelligible "enemy" that they cannot understand, so it must be defeated. THIS is where our Government-Run Socialist (Mis)Educational Indoctrination Centers has taken us.
Einstein was a global socialist what a bunch of lies. Cars, Tesla, light bulbs, kitchen appliances... - all of these are invented by private initiatives.
David not true these are truths known in the heart of every man do youth just need to be educated that this has been a ideological battle for over a hundred years and they'll come to the correct conclusion postmodernism Marxism and Neo Marxism it's been the ruling ideology that's why it doesn't make sense if we raise our kids to know that the majority of people are lazy thieves and would kill you for what's yours before earning at themselves it would all be very easy to understand you're either good or evil
Very well stated!
@@robward7542it's not good or evil unless you know what you are doing is but say for instance when an employer of the railway is demanding that anyone needing a job will have to live by his law's on the job that requires traveling and completion of the railway before he is paid in full not to mention the risks of death is that good or evil? So there are some stories of employer's being oblivious to the employees and other's doing the best they could without having a law to force them to have a sanitary work place breaks and lunch a pension with leniency to sick or injured workers it was fought for in most cases but that's Marxism unionized workforce but a farmer doesn't have breaks they work till they are done so does a writer or an artist so it's like capitalism is the opportunity aspect of the constitution I suppose having learning institutions and other organizations to choose from and not have government choose for you. So Marxism is a theory I assume I really haven't studied but heard about it's unity of labor so I could be wrong about it's full extent and who used it to form a political agenda and to what extent I'm sure they are only taking part of it in use and making it their own as most people have with philosophy.
Legend
WOW
I have no words
I love it i just love it awesome arguments :)
What a brilliant mind she has!
It seems she used it for the wrong reasoning though :/
I'm revisiting this video for the first time in nearly 5 years. This isn't a complaint of the quality of the video, Just an observations. The first time I listen to it, it sounded just fine. Although I can still hear well, I'm starting to have trouble with some sounds. In this case it was the background music. It made it extremely difficult to make out the words of Ayn Rand.
I am always taken aback by how repellant Ayn Rand’s opinions are to many of the “Thinkers” of today. The level of dismissiveness that they use to denounce her is proof positive of the bankruptcy of THEIR ideas.
Everyone has an interesting path on finding Ayan Rand. I would like for anyone that reads this to comment how they found out about Ayn Rand. I found out about Ayn ran through an individual named Mike Menzer.
A long long time ago, Socialist half wits whining about her. A good indicator that she had value.
The greatest philosopher ever!
Einstein was a global socialist And 2 and 2 is 5
Einstein was a global socialist You need to reboot your thinking and start over. Too much garbage.
Einstein was a global socialist Chomsky has moral contradictions in his theories. The man has gained notoriety by being an outspoken humanist. However you do not get points for being merely compassionate.
Jazzper79 I am an Objectivist, mate. I'm responding to Einstein's statement that Chomsky is superior to Rand.
@Einstein was a global socialist logical fallacy with an appeal to authority mate. Loads of PhDs can be wrong. I would caution you to equate an arts degree with production or discovery of the type that Rand speaks of in this lecture. Read Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations to understand the distriction.
Ayn Rand was a philosophical pit-bull as she never backed down against her detractors. She was a refreshingly intelligent spokeswoman for her thoughts. Being a physics professor, I can both admire and appreciate that fact - whether or not I’m in agreement on a particular point of discussion. Her views were her own as my views are my own. America has become an overflowing toilet of one-size (i.e., idea, notion, opinion etc.) fits all mental turds.
I think you mean the woke game.
When you've written 2 pages of notes...and realise you're only 13 minutes in 😂
That's because this lecture is very condensed. you could spend a lot of time elaborating on almost every sentence in here.
Great intellectual!
Thank you....we are humans and deserve to respect one another.....
To respect others YOU need to have respect FOR yourself in the first place.
Respecting others implies a close enough relationship to understand how a person values their life. Giving a gift to others implies helping that person live rationally and reasonably. This is educating them on the objective world or learning from them about the objective world. Ms. Rand did this in full with her books. They are cheap and fully available to all humans. What do you do to respect others?
If people are free to pursue their own goals the inventions they create will benefit everyone.
Awesome video!
Rand is a genius
She supports a "might makes right" mentality: that's not genius, it's not even reason. She says objective values is the only system not determined by "rule by force", but "objective values" (which isn't objective) aka "me first, fuck everyone else for my benefit" is just the individual level of rule by force.
@@goldenquill96 You first, for things that matter to you. You first, as far as choosing your love mate. You first, as far as choosing your work domain. You don't need to "fuck everyone else" -- they are simply not in the picture in the matters that should be, properly, selfish.
I want that book, Already seen it was a bit controlling and how it was counter to my beliefs, removing confusion,
This person would be good example.
This is an objective, philosophical, conceptual frame for polatical views. This approach is tied to mans very needs for survival and evolvement..
Look at how all of it is twisted these days thereby rendering the talking heads and so called experts as mental midgets..
This lady is the Einstein of philosophy and polatics. She is indeed a Legend..
lol
awesome interpretation, Thanks
A well-founded statement worthy of pride and founded by reason and rationality.
Thanks, again!
Just to note that ALLLLL of these points were made a bit back before her by Nietzsche. Not so lectury, but more precisely, and concisely. I wonder if she did get some or most of her ideas from him... for over twenty eight years I have been re-reading Nietzsche and it is clear he must have had an influence on her... Great lecture overall.
Take a look at this video: Ayn Rand, What is the Difference Between Objectivism and Nietzsche's Philosophy. ua-cam.com/video/U6gV1MUSXMg/v-deo.html
Leonard Peikoff showed what's wrong with Nietzsche in his lectures on philosophy series.
@@borisreitman
Even I can tell you what is WRONG with Nietzsche, but what is wrong with him pales in comparison to what is RIGHT about him and his thoughts.
People went to the moon, and sure I can tell you what things they did wrong before and during the trip, but they WENT TO THE MOON and succeeded, what went right is way more than what went right, it is a product of their times. Get it??
Denying Nietzsche because his truths are hard and harsh is not logical.
I can tell you the many many people who have shown what is RIGHT with N.... but what for?? All I see is Rand took many concepts from him.
@@ggrthemostgodless8713 The good thincs in Nietzsche are not his original thinking. It comes from Aristotle, the only philosopher Ayn Rand stated as reference. Also, the idea of the greatness of man was the prevalent idea in Greece. You can see this in that their mythology had men, not animals, as gods.
@@borisreitman
I don't even know what to say to THAT... we just have to agree to disagree. But Rand's "philosophy" is not even a philosophy.
Enough said.
Good luck. At least we are all searching.
20:41 That right there is a HUGELY important idea to understand, and it's implications.
Nonaggression and voluntary association
I can see how this perfectly meshes with her story Atlas shrugged.that brilliant novel was essentially her giving capitalism the unknown ideal a story.
At the middle of the video I began to cry so hard
Sook
Her philosophy is the red pill in the Matrix movie.
I love capitalism because it allows me to fail or succeed based on my choice. How much you choose to work for your success or learn from your failure to try again
My question after watching this is to what extent has psychological advertising and narrative control degraded the rationality of capitalist citizens? Can we expect people to act in their self interest when they aren’t being properly educated by the institutions and both parents have been intentionally remanded to the workforce just to survive. What percentage of the average American has any disposable income left after their basic needs are met?
Amen sister!
Please post this video without the music. The music makes it difficult to hear and concentrate.
I loved her book
What's the name of her book
@@blessed6574 I like "the virtue of Selfishness, but there are many others.
@@marielicampos5097 I just finish looking that book up before you replied. It seems very interesting considering the fact that I've been a victim of that type of thinking that putting myself first is bad.
"The Virtue of Selfishness" is one of Ayn Rand's best books it's like a primer of her philosophy. Unfortunately the title has turned so many people off this book. Be BRAVE you must read this! It has nothing to do with being selfish.
love aynrand
I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but does someone have a link to the same lecture but without all that annoying music ?
I disagree that a government should exist but I love everything
That is one of the few things I disagree with Ayn Rand on. She believed in a limited government, while I (like you) believe in a society free from government.
@@Nicholas_Terry So what would be in its place? There has to be some type hierarchy or it will be nothing but anarchy wouldn’t it?
@@OcculticRomantic As an anarchist myself, that's exactly my point ;)
Perhaps you have conflated the ideas of chaos and anarchy. They are distinctly different from one another.
Violence and chaos are orthogonal to the idea of anarchy. Anarchy is simply the idea of 'a society free of the State'. That's literally the definition. Many anarchists (I call them crazy people) espouse violent revolution and destruction, but not all anarchists believe that, and indeed, is NOT what anarchy _is._
Indeed, anarchists like me aim for the elimination of the State, but not at the expense of innocent lives and private property. The revolution _can_ (and must) be peaceful via education and leadership by example.
For the record, I am an anarcho-capitalist (ancap for short). We believe in private property, the non-aggression principle (NAP), and completely voluntary exchange of goods and services. Note that the non-aggression principle allows for the use of force in self-defense ONLY, and ONLY in _response_ to an initiation of force by another.
I understand your confusion. There is a lot of propaganda out there.
"There has to be some type hierarchy"
You are absolutely correct. Anarchy is NOT the same thing as an absence of hierarchy, rather it allows for hierarchies to organically form, exist, and evolve freely and naturally.
Anarchists (especially anarcho-capitalists like myself) espouse free markets and voluntary associations. Private property is naturally an absolute requirement, as is the privatization of ALL state functions.
The most stable and free hierarchies are those that are emergent in a free marketplace of ideas.
@@Nicholas_Terry Explain to me how you can advocate for private property rights, yet not permit any authority to enforce that right. I can't envision a world in which there is NOT hierarchy that enforces private property rights. If I own a ranch, and my neighbor wants a portion of my land to graze his cattle, how do I stop him from simply fencing in my property for his own use? Do I simply tear down the fence? There is a cost in doing that. Do I tell him to pay to tear down the fence? How do I enforce that edict?
Explain it to me because I LOVE the concept of NO GOVERNMENT but I don't see the practicality of it.
Point being if everyone respects each other's privacy, no one would be infringing on someone else's property. That's where right of self preservation comes in.
we are doing that here!!
There is a saying that " if you are not a communist before 25 then you don't have a heart and if you are a communist after 25 then you don't have a brain ". At the age of 25+ we realize the reality of the society and will come to know that communism doesn't work the same as it is described in Marx's Communist manifesto. And why most of us behave as a communist before 25 is that we are driven by our emotions and caught in the trap of the heroic altruistic feeling.
I entered this video expecting a remarkable thinker. However, she starts off being completely wrong about many things.
・She says that every living species has to follow a certain course of action required by its nature in order to sustain its life. This is simply not true, because all around us life and history shows us that there are many different courses of action which allows species to thrive - unless you choose to believe in absolute determinism, which doesn't seem to be what Ayn is going for here.
・She is right about how our rational, or rather cognitive, abilities are what sets us apart from other species. We're not that different from other animals after all, but it is not that we can think and they cannot - it is that we have much greater capability to do so than other animals, hence our prefrontal cortex.
・She continues to reason that some humans use this rational thinking and achieve great things needed for survival, while others choose to not think and instead survive by somehow parasitizing on those who do think. It is incredibly ignorant to make this, utterly arbitrary, division of people and it opens up for racism, eugenics and other such horrors. She is in a sense arguing for the idea of the thinking 'übermensch' and comparing it to the non-thinking, parasitizing 'untermensch'.
I am not saying that Ayn Rand was a racist, she herself seems to have argued against racism by calling it "[...] the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.". She is, however, using the same reason of thinking, which in my opinion grants palpable risks of reaching similar results - dividing humanity into us/them or thinking/non-thinking human beings.
Modern research consistently shows how the ability to think is dependant on many biological and social factors - without food we become stupid before we die from starvation, and without teachers (parents, friends, school etc.) our ability to learn and think is greatly reduced.
Wow, this got long and only touched the very beginning of the video. Let me know if I got anything wrong!
Having listened to this presentation by Miss Rand, she unequivocally demonstrates that she does not know the difference between capitalism and democracy. Capitalism is an economic financial system whereas democracy is a political system. She never mentioned when, why and how capitalism started and how it has evolved over the last two centuries. Whereas democracy was practiced by the Greeks two thousand years ago. She has said that she studied history when she was in Russia, well capitalism is not history. In capitalism when you incur a debt to another party, it’s not free, you have to pay it back! Incredible!
Capitalism is the daftest economic system since feudalism. All unfair economic systems come to an end. More fairness > less suffering.
Scrolling comments to understand why some gave this dislikes
Minus the music, this is a great lecture.
I don't know what to make of her. Yes she is very interesting to listen too and gives one a whole other view on life that what we see as normal. If we were all selfish would it be a better or nastier world? Who knows? What about the sick, physically or mentally challenged, old and unable to provide for themselves well do we just throw them all under the bus? Does limited government build highways etc or do we rely on all thoae selfish men and women to get the job done? In theory it might seem exciting but in actuality I am not sure it would work. Her lack of caring for anyone other than her spouse seems well callous and if we all subscribe to the same theory would it not be a rather cold distant world? She saw a sky scraper as more impressive of mans creation than the sky or its many other beautiful wonders. She has definitely given one room to think when it comes to her work and most certainly has to be admired for putting together a philosophy that well is different too what yall subscribe too. 🌐
35:02 "The imitators are constantly being beaten by the innovators" followed by images of the light bulb. Hilarious.
Edison and Tesla AC vs DC? I don't think Telsa invented the incandescent bulb though..?
@@Veldtian1 Neither did Edison. The incandescent bulb went through a number of changes from its first design. It's basic advantage is its cheap to build and can be designed to work on any stable voltage source commonly available from as low as that of 1.25 volts and as high as 277 volts. Since they are almost a pure resistive load the same bulb works on DC or AC on any common low frequency power source at the same voltage. No special current limiting or spark initiation circuitry is required. It is usually the lowest efficiency way to create light from an electricity.
This is a flaw of Ayn Rand. She died before the cheaters and rip off artists ruined this nation, and the mass's values and morals got trashier and trashier. The cheaters deregulated international production and outsourced everything, so that the imitators have since been forever beating the innovators and inventors and even the hard working producers. She did not foresee corporate elite globalist rip off artists stealing all of the wealth through deception (they own the media), trickery (they infiltrated the government in order to change the laws so they could cheat and steal more), and they gutted the country over the last 50 years of all manufacturing, jobs, and production. And they hide their money in offshore bank accounts to lie and cheat further.all that valiant honest production in this movie has been lost since her era. And her idealism only works with a base foundation of altruism and morality with a lack of force. She was unrealistic. Even in her era, you can't have a major sport with out a major referee staff. Cheaters cheat!
@@gordonquigg9389 "globalists" "cheaters" "trickery" nice one dude
@@gordonquigg9389She knew, the fountainhead deals with many of these themes, I think the bigger flaw is that everything you outline is the result of those individuals acting in their rational self-interest at a global scale. if you can get things cheaper elsewhere, why shouldn't you? I think she would argue that individuals don't have a responsibility to the nation much less hard working producers who are too expensive to compete. She was writing at a time when America was mired in the Cold War and capitalism stood in stark contrast to socialism. Now capitalism rules and her chickens have come home to roost.
I have become a FAN !!
Ancaps where u at?
Gid Chang Anarcho-Capitalists like watching videos of Murray Rothbard and dislike Objectivists and Ayn Rand!
they all died in a war over the monopoly of force
Babies first political philosophy
Cowering under rocks until she stops talking. After that, they go forth aping her, practising the fallacies Rand introduced here. Context omission and theft of concept.
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Imagine you have a big playground (we'll call this the "market"). In this playground, everyone wants to play with the best toys (these are like "houses" in the adult world). Now, in an ideal playground, every kid should get a turn to play with whatever toy they want. But what if only one part of the playground, let's call them "big groups" (these are like "corporations" in the real world), keep grabbing all the best toys first and don't share?
Some kids, we'll call them "renters," want to play too, but they can't because the big groups have all the toys. These big groups sometimes act like they are just one person and say, "These are my toys only!" But because they have so many toys, they start saying, "If you want to play, you have to give me something." But they ask for too much, so many kids can't play at all.
Now, there’s this person, let's call her "Ms. Rand," who thinks that everyone should be able to get their own toys without too much interference. But she doesn’t talk much about how the big groups can make it hard for individual kids to get any toys.
Also, imagine if kids from another playground (these are "foreign investors") come over and start giving their snacks to the big groups in exchange for playing with the toys. This makes it even harder for the regular kids to get a chance.
So, when we say "The free market is not free in one lifetime," it's like saying, in this playground, not every kid gets a chance to play with the best toys, even if they wait a long, long time. And Ms. Rand’s idea is like saying everyone should fend for themselves, but she doesn’t say much about how the big groups or kids from other playgrounds can make this really hard.
It's like she's describing a system that simply does not exist. Pure ideology.
this can be said about many different economic schools of thought...
@@DSM-114 so what? how does that make ayn rand right?
@@thelegom7116 i'm not saying it does, i'm not a fan of Rand lol im just stating it
@@DSM-114 ok sorry, i thought you were another rand fan because everyone else in the comments is.
Dont understand why people find this informative she is just stating the very basic obvious using common sense and reason
Common sense is not common
@rafathweih538 yeh, unfortunately we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes
In the current economic situation, the wealth gap between the rich, the middle class and the rest of the population is wider than at any time in history. The government is controlled by wealthy plutocrats, oligarchs and their sycophants. When capitalism is pushed to such an extreme imbalance it becomes fascism. Rand advocated for unfettered capitalism which eventually leads to fascism. What she promoted was unmeasured and unbalanced, consequently unsophisticated as confirmed by former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.
CRAPitalism is unsustainable in the sharing economy.
The thing with capitalism is there’s a large percentage of people that are limited. They don’t have the capabilities of others. That’s where we blame the system. Yet the problem is equality. People want to be free but their successes finically undermine others. The solution isn’t socialism but a better regulation of capitalism.
In theory you need traits from communism socialism and capitalism for society to function in balance with every person. With all of their natural capabilities and talents.
Hmm, a form of regulated freedom.
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