Ayn Rand on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Oct. 1967

[@sixofone88]

It was delightful to hear a new interview with Miss Rand!

[@Revel_FL]

The Carson interviews are absolute gold! Thank you for sharing.

[@peggyfranzen6159]

I always admired Miss Rand's honesty, about her father's and, her extended families- taken over by the Bolsheviks..

[@aeomaster32]

Wonderful to hear this. Thank you.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

This is delightful!

[@science212]

Ayn Rand was the reason itself.

[@DrMackSplackem]

Great one!

[@mxbishop]

Carson was so well-prepared, and so polite and respectful. He makes today's late night TV hosts look like the ignoramuses they are. Someday Rand will be re-discovered by young people who want more out of life than to play video games, while living in their parents' basement into their late 30s. More than anything else, the world today's lacks reason as a guide to human action - and Rand's ideas are the antidote to this madness.

[@Individualist73]

I love this woman.

[@marcallen4532]

I have waited for yes!!!!!

[@tennoio1392]

Great. As expected~

[@kubiju13]

She continues to tell the future

[@patricksullivan4329]

Try to imagine Stephen Colbert conducting an interview at this level.

[@gregguralnik2512]

That makes me laugh!!!! Kimmel, Fallon, Colbert, Noah, Oliver; these so-called hosts cannot have a conversation without doing what the left and right have been doing for years. Which is, condescending, gaslighting, slandering and denouncing.

[@micchaelsanders6286]

It took 55 years to release this?

[@no36963]

The Thought Police have been around since before Professor Woodrow Wilson assumed the Presidency.

[@MarcFromBerryland]

Ayn Rand is cool.

[@petekdemircioglu]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@marcallen4532]

She is so dammed cut!!!

[@libertarian100]

AnCap Love

[@frederickmfarias3109]

The evil of the encyclical is the ‘bible’ for the mob.

[@ФоксСенна]

А что на айтишном канале делает эта политота? Какое отношение ведьма Алиса-Розенбаум имеет к науке?

[@veronicaalleyne]

in this one of the wealthiest countries on the planet no one here should be without no matter what they do or don't do as a matter of principle before we look to criticize any other our backyard is not clean

[@amyjoyce2301]

"no one here should be without no matter what they do or don't do as a matter of principle" And who in this wealthy country should have to provide for those who have less? To what extent would that entail exactly and for how long?

[@lordgrishnakh1148]

Just because "this country has plenty" as a vague and broad and general statement, doesn't mean you should take for granted the constant forces at work to keep this up. It's not just "we've crossed a line. Now nobody has to worry about anything again." If all the work that Got "us" there in the first place suddenly stopped, we would become a third world nation or worse practically overnight. Don't take it for granted. A flame still needs fuel or it will go out. You can't just take the flame for granted just because we have a decent one going right now.

[@veronicaalleyne]

once oagain, wrong without oversight & regulation business abuses in the name of maximizing profits which are their only true concern & any useable product or service is merely a byproduct of that primary goal, were all not stupid or asleep

[@patricksullivan4329]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

[@henryemrich7209]

This manages to be even worse than the (already abysmally low) standards set by ARI, in terms of "quality control". Several reasons: The mere fact that Ayn Rand would *waste time* on something like a Carson appearance bespeaks a lack of seriousness with regard to "her" philosophy. Why do I say this? Simple: cooperative-individualism.org/rand-ayn_moral-basis-of-individualism-1995.htm Shortly after the publication of "The Fountainhead" Ayn Rand *contracted* with her publisher to write a short nonfiction presentation of her philosophy (to be titled "the Moral Basis of Individualism"). She *failed* to actually do so. The closest that Rand ever got to a "systematic" exposition of Objectivism (even in "skeleton" form) was Galt's speech in "Atlas Shrugged". There's something rather "telling" about the fact that Ayn Rand's output essentially dried up completely after the "Break" with the Brandens (and resultant dissolution of NBI). The "Tonight Show" (especially during Carson's tenure as host) was probably the *worst* venue Rand could have chosen to "advance Objectivism". Why? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnac_the_Magnificent *IF* Ayn Rand had (still) been sincere about the whole "taking ideas seriously" thing, she would have chosen a venue such as William F. Buckley's "Firing Line" program - *whether the host was "adversarial", or not.* The main "advantage" of the Carson appearances from Rand's point of view was the fact that Carson was "respectful" to her (IE: allowing Rand to engage in stream-of-consciousness ramblings, while occasionally prodding her with "softball" questions.) At best, these Tonight Show appearances are fluff/pablum, and at worst they play right into the hands of those Peikoff would decry as "Enemies of Objectivism" - by (implicitly) promoting the view that anything even tangentially involving Ayn Rand gains profund significance from that fact. Ayn Rand could have done infinitely more to advance "her" ideas (and the cause of individual liberty more generally) by actually producing a single volume, systematic treatment of those ideas - but she opted for softball bullshit like this, instead.

[@TheOrdener]

She enjoyed the show. Are you saying she shouldn’t go on and sacrifice her own happiness to spread her ideas efficiently?

[@CyberPsyLen]

'she wasn't sincere in her ideas because she spoke about them on a show which I think was not perfect' - says the guy ranting on youtube comments. What a < you are!