A note for norbert_numberguy and the other Toohey's of the world
Posted by overmanwarrior 12 years, 6 months ago to Culture
I noticed that this norbert_numberguy person who has been leaving messages attempting to paint us all as Ayn Rand groupies unable to see reality has mistaken the intent here and of course is due to their own self-image.
A common trick amoung these types is to undo the foundations of reality then attempt to spin them around as distorted facts, such as the comments to portray those of us who think the critics of AS2 are all Ellseworth Toohey's out to defame Ayn Rand, and are simply limted in thinking. But in fact, the truth is that many of these critics are exactly like Toohey from 'The Fountainhead', and to attempt to say anything else is designed to conceal the facts.
I have a lot of experience with these types of people. In fact, I have been involved in several labor disputes that were very high profile in my town of Cincinnati. And these conficts have become very nasty, so nasty that the name calling that occured online and in town meetings found their way on the radio stations, such as what you can hear about me at the link above where I gave an interview to a very popular radio station to put a lid on a breaking story against me. In that case there were many Toohey's working behind the curtain. So I've seen the process up close and more than once. The burden is on people like norbert numberguy to prove otherwise, not for us to prove to him the facts of reality.
A common trick amoung these types is to undo the foundations of reality then attempt to spin them around as distorted facts, such as the comments to portray those of us who think the critics of AS2 are all Ellseworth Toohey's out to defame Ayn Rand, and are simply limted in thinking. But in fact, the truth is that many of these critics are exactly like Toohey from 'The Fountainhead', and to attempt to say anything else is designed to conceal the facts.
I have a lot of experience with these types of people. In fact, I have been involved in several labor disputes that were very high profile in my town of Cincinnati. And these conficts have become very nasty, so nasty that the name calling that occured online and in town meetings found their way on the radio stations, such as what you can hear about me at the link above where I gave an interview to a very popular radio station to put a lid on a breaking story against me. In that case there were many Toohey's working behind the curtain. So I've seen the process up close and more than once. The burden is on people like norbert numberguy to prove otherwise, not for us to prove to him the facts of reality.
(Especially, do so intellectually)
However, the numbers are the numbers, and they indicate that - no matter how much you don't want to believe them, no matter how much you want this film not to be a flop - Part II is going to be a flop.
Downrate if you want. Cover your eyes if you want. Deny it if you want. But three weeks from now, when it's gone from the theaters and has lost millions upon millions of dollars, you'll see that denial doesn't change reality.
In the mean time, if rose-colored glasses comfort you, who I am to say you're a fool?