Rand: Someone put me on a ping list but I’ve never read any of her books, I think my mom told me once that I would like them. If I ever did read one it would probably be to check out the “rape” scene in “The Fountainhead”. Saw the movie where Helen Mirren played her, I don’t think she ever put her cigarette down for a second. Eric Stoltz has a very punchable face. Cliff notes version of her philosophy sounds appealing to me. People saying “Go Galt” I’ve always found to be annoying.
Tyson: I wanted to like that science show of his they were pushing by airing on EVERY Fox owned network. But it was just boring as hell, the grandeur of the universe should make for easy storytelling but I guess not. I like his vest with stars on it.
So he’s Cosby? Obviously I don’t know the man but I have trouble seeing that, I’ve heard people say he’s a jerk but... At this point on no account am I’m gonna give the benefit of the doubt to a bunch of me too bimbos coming out of the woodwork years later with no proof. I don’t care what his political views are, there is a war on men going on, all men. Reputations destroyed on nothing but the word of of God’s least truthful creature, the woman? (haha just kidding ladies) I can’t abide it, even if dude is a lib.
“..People saying “Go Galt” I’ve always found to be annoying...”
Day’s coming when it won’t be enough to simply “Go Galt”.
Going to take a lot more than that.
I’ve never read Ayn Rand’s books. I’ve seen the film version of “The Fountainhead.” If we were supposed to side with Gary Cooper’s Howard Roark character, it didn’t work with me. He wanted to build an ugly, soulless modernist-style skyscraper, while his benefactors wanted something classic.
He persisted in wanting his ugly tower built, and the benefactors were kind enough to split the difference and formulate a classic base with the modernist tower, and still Roark was pissed. Ugly is ugly, and I thought he was a self-righteous jackass with a terrible design aesthetic. Of course, as a lover of classic architecture (especially Second Empire, for which countless American cities and towns tore down en masse in the modern era), I deplore most modern architecture with a passion.