milkrun
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Caught most of the classic "The Fountain Head" today which was a movie based upon the book "Atlas Shrugged", by Ayn Rand, about the life of the famous architect Frank LLoyd Wright. The movie was a bit too staged and dogmatic, but one segment was done very well.
I am referring to the courtroom scene in which Gary Cooper states his case. The speech he made is perhaps the most perfect explaination of freedom I have ever heard, and the most crushing condemnation of Liberalism and Socialism.
But in reality the world cannot exist the way Ayn Rand views it. Total self-reliance upon one's skills, each person existing only for their own desires and owning their separate space without regard for others who can't or won't invent their own lives.
The truth is that the best of the best get most of the money and freedom to do what they want, whenever they want, but at a price. That price is loss of free speech.
I am referring to the courtroom scene in which Gary Cooper states his case. The speech he made is perhaps the most perfect explaination of freedom I have ever heard, and the most crushing condemnation of Liberalism and Socialism.
But in reality the world cannot exist the way Ayn Rand views it. Total self-reliance upon one's skills, each person existing only for their own desires and owning their separate space without regard for others who can't or won't invent their own lives.
The truth is that the best of the best get most of the money and freedom to do what they want, whenever they want, but at a price. That price is loss of free speech.