Ayn Rand’s Present Day Adventures continue in this, Episode V! In honor of this fifth weekiversary, we offer this very special chapter, which is pretty much just like all the previous episodes — but more contemporary.
AYN RAND'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND 11:01 am July 6, 2010
The Ivory Tower: Ayn Rand in the 21st Century
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terrifying.
Reminds of that Randy Newman line: “I recoil in horror/at the foulness of thee.”
Nicely describes my feelings about Ayn Rand, and Rand’s feelings for her followers.
When take my special fields exams I will get on my chair and scream: “I need no peer review!” Best way to get kicked out of the academy.
OH SHIT WE’RE ALL FUCKED NOW
I can’t wait for the next exiting episode!
I think the representation of Rand is an attempt to personify the ugliness of her ideas, and it’s not nearly horrifying enough to do so.
lluv the alt text
Well done!
Bravo. Bravo dear Benjamin.
[re=612145]rev_matt_y[/re]: needz moar hunchback!
That just completely negated my joy over whoopie pie..
I think we’ve found the next big internet meme:
I AM AYN RAND I NEED NO PEER REVIEW!
One of the best moments of the past few years — which didn’t get nearly enough publicity and which deserves to be played over and over again on national television every night until the free-marketers go away — is Alan Greenspan testifying after the economic meltdown, admitting he was wrong about how if we deregulated everything, the markets would work all by themselves. That he’s officially repudiated his idiotic philosophy just seems to have blown by the people it needs to reach.
[re=612156]SayItWithWookies[/re]: And yet, he will appear on the “news” programs as a “economic specialist”. Utterly discredited, but, who cares?
So Sarah Palin’s babblespeak is hiding the fact that she has teamed up with zombie Ayn to usher in a new Randian paradise?
I am aghast!
[re=612160]freakishlystrong[/re]: Ten minutes on NPR and a 6 second blurb, as an average, on each network. Liberal Media bias indeeed.
Also…I cannot wait for Ayn Rand to go all Buffalo Bill on Sarah Palin.
Yentas gone wild! Who knew?
[re=612133]MarieDeGournay[/re]:
You know, if I was on your committee I’d pass you.
That, of course, knowing full well you’d wind up in a shelter hectoring bums in the food line about your degree.
Ohh Ohh!! i lived in a building called Ivory Tower back in the glory days at GW. I used to review my peers from across the street in their fraternity houses. Ayn missed out!
Dammit, Ben! Why’dja have to go and make her so sexy?
rand wasn’t ugly , her face just had a strong personality .
Atlas Shrugged and said, “I dunno lol”.
[re=612155]iwillsavethispatient[/re]: I DON’ GOT TO SHOW YOU NO STINKIN’ PEER REVIEW!
I AM GURUKALEHURU! I NEED NO PEER REVIEW!
[re=612156]SayItWithWookies[/re]: The Daily Show had a great moment around that time where they played that clip and cut back to Jon Stewart saying something like “Really? The big flaw in your theory that nearly took down the economy of the entire planet is that you didn’t know people could be douchey?” Probably the best summation anyone has ever made of Alan Greenspan’s economic theories.
What will Ayn think about the tapeworm tunnels in the Grifter brain from eating bad moose.
[re=612259]weejee[/re]: Not to mention the family-wide infestation of hookworms.
[re=612235]gurukalehuru[/re]: I AM SPARTACUS! I NEED NO PEER REVIEW!
Needs a soundtrack:
http://www.clubmikayla.com/club/sound/halloween/ominouslaugh%5B1%5D.wav
I am eager to see the Snowbilly / Galtian showdown.
It is a long established intertubez tradition that if you call a meme a meme then it isn’t a meme.
Listen to your peers on this one.
[re=612133]MarieDeGournay[/re]: Ayn’s corpse would be hired with immediate tenure at Beck University.
i can’t wait till we get to the part where batman swoops in to kick this ugly villain’s ass.
I’m holding out for the tentacle porn.
[re=612278]user-of-owls[/re]: I am Spartacus!
[re=612156]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Exactly.
I wonder why the GOP did not get that message.
They neglected to read David Stockmans book, too.
Still fucking that trickle down/free market chicken
[re=612533]sati demise[/re]: A rising tide floats all boats(unless you’re already sunk).
I picture this version of Alan Greenspan sounding like Mr. Burns when he talks rather than his true nasal tone.
As someone who’s long found Ayn Rand’s “objectivism” to a hysterical excuse for anything except her own mental baggage, I must say Benjamin Frisch, you are awesome.
The cover sketch for this week’s episode clearly shows that Ayn Rand’s philosophy emanates directly from her asshole.
[re=612191]user-of-owls[/re]: How do you think I ended up teaching English in China?
You know, when you move to Alaska, you have to do two things to become a real Alaskan: wrestle with a bear and have sex with an Eskimo. Will AR end up in the sack with Todd Palin,then wrestle with the momma grisly?
In real life, AR was a amphetamine addict. When she gets to Wasilla, after her encounter with the Abominations of Palination, I propose she try to take over Ma Johnston’s meth mob, and be shot be Levi. Or maybe marooned on iceberg (where she could have sex with a giant squid. You promised us tentacle sex, you know!!)
[re=612200]rmjag[/re]: Don’t kid yourself, she was butt-ugly. Sailors home from six months at sea gathering horseshoe crabs would think twice or three times before getting it on with Ayn Rand.
I am appalled at the thudding obtuseness of this graphic parody, which could have been funny with just a little effort, but I am especially dismayed by the exceptionally poor quality of the user commentary herein. Many of you can barely string two words together, and for most of you, if IQ were calories, you couldn’t boil a dewdrop.
I could say many things to illustrate just how stupid this parody and its readers are, but I will confine myself to a single one, as follows:
The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act is presently the legislation that enables most funding for homeless individuals. Do any of you brilliant social and political commentators wanna take a guess as to which president signed it?
Nice. I like it. Keep writing.
[re=614905]Obamas Left Testicle[/re]:
Who are you, Foghorn Leghorn? “I say, son, I say, this graphic parody is thuddin’ an’ obtuse!”
Only a paultard could be this pretentious. You are a paultard, right?
Admit it, you’ll feel better.
Mr. Tommcatt, you are a *perfect* specimen of someone who cannot string two words together. For future reference, when making a case for your intellectual superiority, evoking a child’s cartoon character demonstrates precisely the opposite.
Pretentious? Do you know *anything* about the subject of this article?
[re=614952]Obamas Left Testicle[/re]: Yes, the subject of the article is Ayn Rand; perhaps the most pretentious author in history. The prog-rock band, Rush, wrote their “concept album”, ’2112′ because of her. Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation .. wtf?eatabagofdicks!
I can’t stand Rand, but this series needs more funny.
[re=614971]DC Hates Me[/re]: I’m sure Neil Peart cringes at the writings of his dumb extended adolescence (since he doesn’t write dumb anymore); he moved on long ago. Which is more than you can say for Alan Greenspan. And the consequences to the global economy of Greenspan’s thralldom are infinitely worse than a little Geddy Lee shrieking.
Why do we allow Canadians into this country but Mexicans have to sneak in? I’d rather hear a mariachi version of Temple of Syrinx. Vihuelas and Guitarrons are great sounding instruments, check these out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRzmyTn_PfE
[re=614952]Obamas Left Testicle[/re]: Dear Mr. Testicle, I hereby award you the coveted plexiglas belly-button award, so that you can see where you are going.
Ayn Rand is just a convenient excuse for greedy old white people to feel OK about being greed, old, and white. She’s basically what the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was for the Beatles (as Kurt Vonnegut espoused, i.e. made them feel spiritual without having to really do anything or give away all their cash).
It’s funny to see a Randroid Repuke like OLT show up here. I remember stepping over the homeless on the sidewalks of Philadelphia in the 80′s because Reagan reduced the funding for mental health institutions (Byberry in Philly being a major one that shut down). And the patients/clients (many of them veterans) were literally thrown out on the streets. So because Reagan happened to sign a bill that Dems put up to help the homeless, doesn’t make him any more ethical. Just as Nixon signing the EPA bills didn’t make him an environmentalist hippie.
I never quite understood the Reagan hype — anybody who actually lived through the 80′s and saw what was going on knows he was just an affable buffoon at best. The episode in Oliver Sacks’ book, about aphasic patients who saw right through Reagan’s acting on a big speech, and were laughing their heads off as it was obvious to them he was just totally lying and acting, says it all.
Hi X I am with you on the mariachi bands. My conflict is with liberals who advocate the status quo of lousy pay and substandard working conditions for illegal Mexicans. Logical consistency would seem to dictate a more coherent policy stance.
Carl: Guilty as charged, although I recall the mental health institutions being emptied because civil rights advocates successfully argued that confining such patients was a violation of their civil rights, not because of any funding issue, which is mostly a state issue anyway. Isn’t it predictibly sad how liberal policies can produce such human misery, and willful idiots will always refuse to see the truth?
Oh, and calling a politician a liar: now *that’s* original.
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