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If You Could Ask Ayn Rand One Question....

Posted by awebb 9 years, 3 months ago to The Gulch: General
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If you had the opportunity to ask Ayn Rand any one question, what would it be?

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  • Posted by gcarl615 9 years, 3 months ago
    Ayn, Since there is no John Galt that I can find or he has not deemed me worthy of an invite to the Gulch, can I shrug in place and no betray the philosophy?
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  • Posted by dwlievert 9 years, 3 months ago
    Ayn: What, if anything, would you choose to do differently in your personal life?
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  • Posted by wiggys 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    we are the squeaky wheels and what have we gotten? nothing! those in power will always do what ever they want until as Jefferson said an uprising every 20 years so it is long over due.
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 9 years, 3 months ago
    "Why should Hank Rearden not feel guilty about
    having sex with Dagny when he was married to
    Lillian? Why shouldn't he have divorced Lillian first,
    or, if that was impossible, at least have given her
    a sort of advance notice?--Granted, Lillian was a b----, and the way she traded off that bracelet
    was an insult to him and all he stood for, but
    shouldn't he have said, 'All right, if that's what
    you think of me, I divorce you, I divorce you, I
    divorce you, and from now on I'm going to do what I d--- please.'? Or was it because, at the
    time the book was published (1957), it was al-
    most impossible, in some cases, to get a div-
    orce?"
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 3 months ago
    which one aspect of life gives you the most pleasure? -- j
    .
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  • Posted by one4Rush 9 years, 3 months ago
    Why did Eddie Willis end up alone with the TT transcontinental?
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  • Posted by one4Rush 9 years, 3 months ago
    True or false?
    Ignorance can be fixed, but stupidity not so much.
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  • Posted by $ Radio_Randy 9 years, 3 months ago
    Had I lived in her time...my question might have been: "Will you marry me?"

    From what I've seen, of her works...she was a woman after my own heart. Had she been born a man...this would have been awkward!
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  • Posted by dbhalling 9 years, 3 months ago
    (cheating-second question) Why did not not give credit to Locke and the other enlightenment thinkers, when you obviously admire what they were able to create in the United States of America.
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  • Posted by lrshultis 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I would instead ask her if the struggle in writing gave her happiness as was her individual purpose in her work while the collective-altruistic purpose, if any, was far down the list of any purposes for her writing.

    I would also want to know how important the tobacco and amphetamine use was to her in thinking while writing.
    I have thought that part of the downward spiral of the U S is the war by government and society on stimulant use.
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  • Posted by dbhalling 9 years, 3 months ago
    I would ask why she was uncomfortable with evolution. I would argue that her meta-ethics is consistent with or built upon evolution. In fact I proposed a talk related to this for Atlas Summit 2016
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  • Posted by $ rainman0720 9 years, 3 months ago
    "What are the winning $800M Powerball numbers?"

    Since so much of what she wrote in AS has come (or is coming) true, I figure she must have been able to see into the future.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If that is the way it has to be, I'm glad I've lived most of my life. Hate it for my kids and their kids.
    For their sake, I will not go quietly into the night.
    My passed away mama used to say, "The squeaking wheel gets the grease.".
    It does not appear that squeaking buys grease unless you're PC or a Muslim anymore, but that movie, "The Mouse That Roared" suddenly comes to mind.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Precisely wrong. It will happen because power IS in the hands of the wrong people. Theory of Revolution 101. When possible make it a Counter Revolution thus gaining the legal and moral high ground. We have that tool in a practical sense at hand unless Obama is successful in co-opting and even then he will not co-opt all. The one failinig of the left that can always be counted on besides defeatism is arrogance. They aren't as 'smart' as they think they are. If Hillary and Lakoff are the best they can muster....Cutesey Couric. Come on we are not talking Mensa here no matter how much they paid to have their test scores raised.

    The system was set up to put the power in the hands of the citizens that is the source of power. A lesson that wants graphically driven home but it won't be at this election.

    First prepare then wait for life to become unbearable? No. First prepare and then use the tools provided by the Constitution. One of them is big heavy baseball bat which some on the left have only begun to realize exists.

    Primarily Obama. He's got one year and he won't be successful.
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