Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand Psychopath?

Kniall said:
It looks like Adam Curtis has made another must-watch documentary series - 'All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of_Loving_Grace_%28TV_series%29

http://vimeo.com/57157436

In the first episode, Curtis tracks the effects of Ayn Rand's ideas. It's interesting that she was shunned at the time, but surely and slowly her cult following built up over the decades until Silicon Valley CEO-types lived and breathed her ethos pathos.

Kniall, thank you for posting this. Here _http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/ is a site with a listing - scroll down to see videos on the left side of the screen - of all three episodes of this documentary.

Just started watching the first episode...really interesting...yes, I agree with Robert that Ayn Rand may very well have been a narcissist. Just finished watching a segment recounting her having gone into a lengthy, angry "tirade" (narcissistic rage? _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_rage) after her lover, Nathaniel Branden, ended their love affair...
 
Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt? (2014)
"Atlas Shrugged: Part III" (original title)
_http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2800038/?ref_=nv_sr_2

Laura Regan was my favorite actress in They (2002), a fiction movie. She returns in this one. I liked the first two Atlas movies for their fiction content, good actors and special effects, plus the idea seemed original. However since then I read the required minimal amount of literature on this topic and followed news since the great twitter campaign more thoroughly.

I could only watch the first twenty or so minutes and during that nothing has changed from the narcissistic, psychopathic, lying Rand drivel, it was going on and on, so I turned it off and destroyed the movie.

Absolutely disgusting world-view, I cannot imagine how Rand could identify with this and continue to exist.. shudder. :shock:
 
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