Galt's Gulch

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  • Posted by sdesapio 10 years ago
    TOO FUNNY! I'm still laughing! You have to watch it to the end! LOL!
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    • Posted by khalling 10 years ago
      **SPOILER***
      yes, Galt had the last laugh
      I don't appreciate parody on other people's positive contributions. I do appreciate what it means to ride on other people's coat tails.
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      • Posted by sdesapio 10 years ago
        **SPOILER***

        "Ladies and Gentlemen, we're out of chocolate cake. Do you know why? I took it from you. Chocolate cake is a sacred possession. This is John Galt speaking."

        OMG! I can't stop laughing!
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        • Posted by khalling 10 years ago
          it purposely trivializes the point to irrelevancy. Also, it changes the context to turn Galt into a thief. Instead of the men of the mind leaving, Galt steals chocolate cake. am I just too literal? sigh
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          • Posted by sdesapio 10 years ago
            Yes k. It gets Rand wrong. It gets Atlas wrong. It's parody. Its ridicule is intentional.

            The video was not put together to support Rand's message. It's a "make fun of Rand" video.

            And... it's funny. I know this, because... it made me laugh... out loud.

            "Humor is the denial of metaphysical importance to that which you laugh at. The classic example: you see a very snooty, very well dressed dowager walking down the street, and then she slips on a banana peel . . . . What’s funny about it? It’s the contrast of the woman’s pretensions to reality." - Leonard Peikoff (https://estore.aynrand.org/p/6/the-philo...)

            What's funny about the video is the contrast of the video's pretensions to reality.

            "To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to laugh at the good, is a hideous vice." - Ayn Rand

            I'm not laughing at us k. I'm laughing at his misinterpretation of us. I'm laughing at the message of the video, not Rand's message.

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            EDIT: a word for clarity
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