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Sep. 24th, 2002 11:40 ami just finished watching a documentary on Ayn Rand, truly a remarkable woman in her own right, but it seems to me that her philosophy of Objectivism has been misrepresented since her death. Her books "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" are on my ever dwindling "I mean to read that someday" book list. (I just polished off Larry Niven's "Ringworld Engineers" and "The Gripping Hand." I think i'll take them back to the library once i'm finsihed here, and see if i can find Rand's books.) Anyhow, Rand's sort of optimistic hope in capitalism seems to have turned somehow into a frenzy of greed for greed's sake, and proponents of Rands more restrained, intellectual approach to the idea of every man for himself, (like Alan Greenspan) are largely ignored. (at least, philosophically, half the world hangs on his every breath when it comes to interest rates) Perhaps the way lies somewhere in the middle (no pun intended, all you buddhists out there.)
"death is insignificant and unimportant.
eternity is important, and eternity is now.
i will not die, it is the world that will end."
-Ayn Rand.
how true this is.
the Nordstrom "subscription" card on which i jotted this quote features a smiling young man, whose black sweatpants (Nike Men's track pants BP65602, $55.00 www.nordstrom.com) look (at least in the light of the cathode ray tube) like a cowled monk holding his hands up before his face in prayer.
too powerful in my mind to be ignored, god inserts himself into my free association and my unconscious. this is the nature of god. you can't keep a good man down.
i am reminded of something my father taught me, a memnonic for remembering the tuning on a six string guitar (E, A, D, G, B and then high E)
"Even After Death, God Bothers Everyone."
Apple Remote Access interrupts these thoughts. "Due to inactivity, You have been disconnected."
Finally, some recommended reading, a fantastic essay on love lost, reminiscence and the emptiness and objectivity of pornography, truly some of the best writing i've read in a long while (although some mature content is enclosed therein) from the blog of Michael Barrish, found on www.cruel.com,
http://oblivio.com/road/02062801.shtml
(i will not spellcheck this entry, i am sorry.)
"death is insignificant and unimportant.
eternity is important, and eternity is now.
i will not die, it is the world that will end."
-Ayn Rand.
how true this is.
the Nordstrom "subscription" card on which i jotted this quote features a smiling young man, whose black sweatpants (Nike Men's track pants BP65602, $55.00 www.nordstrom.com) look (at least in the light of the cathode ray tube) like a cowled monk holding his hands up before his face in prayer.
too powerful in my mind to be ignored, god inserts himself into my free association and my unconscious. this is the nature of god. you can't keep a good man down.
i am reminded of something my father taught me, a memnonic for remembering the tuning on a six string guitar (E, A, D, G, B and then high E)
"Even After Death, God Bothers Everyone."
Apple Remote Access interrupts these thoughts. "Due to inactivity, You have been disconnected."
Finally, some recommended reading, a fantastic essay on love lost, reminiscence and the emptiness and objectivity of pornography, truly some of the best writing i've read in a long while (although some mature content is enclosed therein) from the blog of Michael Barrish, found on www.cruel.com,
http://oblivio.com/road/02062801.shtml
(i will not spellcheck this entry, i am sorry.)
