Catching up With Leonard Peikoff

[@lauraowens178]

Thank you, Mr. Peikoff, for everything, and for doing this interview. I really enjoyed it. Wishing you health & happiness.

[@LeeWanner]

I have so much respect for you Mr. Peikoff! Thank you for all you've done.

[@melioraemeritus1]

Mr. Peikoff seems like such a sweet, gentle person. I enjoyed seeing him waltz and hope to maintain the same enthusiasm for life when I’m his age. 🥰

[@newintellectual.]

Always a pleasure to hear from my hero Peikoff. Love and respect to you sir. Edit: Sorry, no Dr. :)

[@WhoIsJohnGaltt]

When a man dies a library burns with him. Truly happy to see Leonard doing so well at 91 and still super sharp as well. Truly amazing

[@mark92691]

Thanks for making this available. I'm glad that LP is doing so well.

[@Raelspark]

Thanks Leonard. I still have a lot to learn.

[@RobertJones-xg5iv]

Since about 1980 have loved his work...!!!..."have mercy... been waiting' for the bus all day"... & I thank you!

[@TheBestTom]

So great to see Dr. Peikoff! So happy for him in getting remarried to Grace!

[@RogerFusselman]

Glad to hear they play Wordle! My girlfriend and I play Wordle, Mastermind, and 꼬들 (Ggodeul, a Korean version of Wordle). These are great games for keeping the mind sharp.

[@maurices5954]

@@RogerFusselman Wordle, Quordle, Octordle, Victordle, fun stuff!

[@Kuellos]

I am a professional ballroom dancer and instructor. I am delighted to see Leonard Peikoff learning to waltz. I think dancing can bring great pleasure to one’s life in so many ways. It is great for people of any age. He looked fantastic for someone at the age of 90.

[@rochecr]

thank you for bring updates about LP , I always look about what he is working on , bit difficult to find quality information as this !

[@raziginzberg1856]

For people who saw my earlier announcement that this video will premiere today: unfortunately we had to postpone it. But the interview has already been recorded, and it’s worth the wait.

[@StaavAutumn]

@@raziginzberg1856 can you reupload with better audio?

[@ExtremelyTastyBread]

I clicked on this video specifically because it was the only recent video on this channel that didn't appear to about about the middle east. 30 seconds into the video:

[@michaelmalamy4204]

Glad to see and hear my former NYU professor. Same Leonard!

[@simonphuket7782]

This was delightful! Great to see him in his later years with the same zest for life and living what appears to be a happy and productive life.Atlas Shrugged the series philosophically overseen by him is really something to look forward to, if indeed they adhere to his suggestions. CIearly he wants to stay in touch so maybe this should be an ARC UK series, Keeping up with Leonard!

[@TeaParty1776]

> Atlas Shrugged the series ??

[@TeaParty1776]

Its a trivial topic.

[@simonphuket7782]

@@TeaParty1776 Actually, it’s a factual issue but out of respect for LP. I will not discuss it further. FYI, Ayn Rand herself thought Atlas Shrugged would be more suited to the mini series format. And, if I am correct was working on such a project before her death.

[@TeaParty1776]

​@@simonphuket7782 > Actually, it’s a factual issue What is? I want to see a competent TV series or movie of AS. I saw the superficial Lionsgate movies. Trivia: two of its actors were on Miami Vice.

[@TeaParty1776]

@@simonphuket7782 I look forward to a great work of art

[@peripatetic4024]

Wonderful!

[@BitcoinMeister]

Grace appears at the 44minute mark.... draw your own conclusions...

[@tylerm1320]

Can’t wait to hear this one!

[@danielrizzo4927]

The restaurant story was hilarious!

[@toolboxnj]

His Ford Hall forums are my favorite talks

[@RW-bp8to]

❤

[@StaavAutumn]

If the standard is enjoying or even understanding this content, then you objectively need better audio. I find that unfathomable that you couldn't get a pair of lavaliers or some other kind of microphones. Or at the very least bother to process the audio with some basic dialogue enhancement because the recording straight out of the microphone Is totally crap. Sad to see that this discussion with Leonard is treated so poorly from an audio perspective. This could be his last talk and this is the quality we get this could be his last talk and this is the quality we get. Razi, wtf man....

[@TeaParty1776]

I thought it was my bad ears. Teen rockers in the 60s had better audio. Search "online audio into equalizer" for some possibilities.

[@WhoIsJohnGaltt]

Oh fuck off. This is a friendly catching up not a send off for the man. Not everything needs to be top notch quality just enjoy the man for the man

[@akston_burger]

@@WhoIsJohnGaltt Can you imagine Howard Roark or Hank Rearden saying that ''not everything needs to be top notch quality''? Wanting the best from life and aiming for the best in productivity is an important part of living the philosophy. Shouldn't the people making this podcast take it as seriously as Roark takes his buildings, Rearden his metal and Dagny her trains? Low quality videos won't help us distinguish ourselves as objectivists.

[@WhoIsJohnGaltt]

@@akston_burger the content is what matters. Not the camera. Sure it’s nice to have the best of the best of the best. But for the context of this situation. It’s fine

[@ProudAjax]

@@WhoIsJohnGalttNobody is asking for the best of the best. They're asking for audio that is listenable and video that is watchable. They couldn't even be bothered to upload in standard edition instead opting for 360p lol

[@LeftUsername]

Needed his view on the election

[@raystargazer7468]

Time has passed.

[@paulusjeffryjosepayyappilly]

❤🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@TheNeuralist]

Poor Leonard. Hope he's alright.

[@zigorystudios]

Is the miniseries Leonard Peikoff refers to the one being produced by Daily Wire?

[@raystargazer7468]

Heh, no quarters on the censor stuff. Good!

[@איציקכהן-כ5ז]

The good old days when man were respected and the enemy were crushed how i loved you so But evrything can be fixed if we act for the truth with trump it will be freat agein

[@economicfreedom8591]

Interesting comment about the woke edition of Atlas Shrugged in the UK. So far, however, I can't find any mention of that online.

[@Avidcomp]

Woke Edition?

[@rinkuhero]

@@Avidcomp apparently mentioned in the interview that that edition was edited to change some words that are politically incorrect today, necessary in the UK because otherwise bookstores would refuse to carry it

[@economicfreedom8591]

@@rinkuhero >>>apparently mentioned in the interview Yet I haven't been able to find any mention of it online.

[@rinkuhero]

@@economicfreedom8591 i doubt there would be much about it. he's the copyright holder. he'd be the only one who knows the specifics about foreign releases and all the different versions of it.

[@Avidcomp]

@@rinkuhero I thought we were speaking about the up coming tv series. But yes, regards the book and don't touch a word. Screw the bookstores, we have Amazon.

[@RonDiani]

Ok I want to watch it I heard about him

[@Mal1234567]

An Objectivist told me the question "What does it mean to be independent of consciousness?" (which I'm asking about a statement Peikoff made in OPAR) is rhetorical. Does Leonard Peikoff think that the question "What does it mean to be independent of consciousness?" is rhetorical?

[@איציקכהן-כ5ז]

The good old days when woman respected man and the enemy new its place but we can fix it if we act and with trump it will be even better

[@danielreiss-cy4zr]

Leonard Peikoff?! Never heard of him.

[@vhagar_bb]

So, no go from the legal team yet?

[@jamesvalliant6707]

Prudently got legal advice, but this is exactly what we planned to air the weekend it was made!

[@Avidcomp]

@@jamesvalliant6707 All the very best on that, especially for Leonard. He deserves every freedom imaginable.

[@economicfreedom8591]

I don't remember LP having been a smoker back in the day. Just wondering why he's wearing an O2 canula.

[@barrydwood]

He once told me he used to smoke Old Gold. In some of the early lectures you can hear his lighter click.

[@MrJm323]

Gosh, my comment which was similar to barrydwood's comment got removed for some reason. Just like barry said, you can hear him using his lighter frequently in his lectures from the Sixties and Seventies.

[@michaelmalamy4204]

he and colleagues smoked all of the time we had to endure clouds of cigarette smoke at earlier lectures

[@economicfreedom8591]

@@michaelmalamy4204 Interesting. Thanks! If I remember correctly, Jeff Walker in "The Ayn Rand Cult" mentions that inner-circle members meeting at Rand's NYC apartment in the 1950s-60s were often chided for NOT smoking, since Rand had such admiration for the habit in Atlas Shrugged, with the scene of the cigarette salesman in the lobby of the Taggart building saying something about a cigarette symbolizing "fire at man's fingertips," representing, I suppose, the control of nature via man's rational faculty.

[@emoshunless]

I love in his lecture on the history of philosophy every so often you'll hear a zippo open and light a smoke.

[@Gorboduc]

His attitudes on bowdlerization are on point. 👍 If he wants to do an autobiography without the effort, someone can sit down and tape some oral history interviews. I'd listen to every minute of it.

[@edbonz2]

THIS IS EXCELLENT. EDUCATOR PEIKOFF is BETTŢER THAN ARISTOTLE!!!! LIVING LEGEND. PLEASE!! ONE OF THESE A YEAR. MAY BE ON ATLAS SHRUGGED DAY OR NEAR HOLIDAY CHRISTMAS........

[@edbonz2]

$$$$$$

[@notanother7396]

Let’s not get out over our skis.

[@economicfreedom8591]

>>>PEIKOFF is BETTŢER THAN ARISTOTL You're probably thinking of Aristotle Onassis. I agree.

[@jaredcoffin3907]

Shocking that such a critical philosophy has been reduced to a “Wayne’s World”- level presentation. The speakers should be seated facing each other. Proper microphones should be used. Proper lighting is needed. A fundamental structure is needed. The opportunity wasted is breathtaking. Most viewers, including me, have no idea who the man sitting “behind”Piekoff is. A proper introduction is, of course, needed. In the final analysis, Objectivism, as such, is all but extinct. The likes of the ARI have diluted, hijacked, and indeed dismantled the philosophy so that it’s unrecognizable. Ridiculous, rambling, unprofessional (pets!, oye) appearances like this only further discredit the serious work Rand did, and reduces it to just a non-factor in today’s world. I just don’t get it. To paraphrase Jack “The Joker” Nicholson, “This Philosophy Needs An Enema‼️”

[@StatlerWaldorf-yc1pe]

Wow. "I just don’t get it" sums you up just perfectly. And you choosing to quote the Joker is the cherry on the cake!

[@rationalcapitalist]

I agree that the presentation could have been much better, but "this" is not Objectivism, nor does it have any impact on Ayn Rand's philosophy qua philosophy. This was not a talk about Objectivism. It was a catch up with Leonard Peikoff, who will likely not be with us for a tremendous amount of time. Not everything has to be a buttoned up, formal discussion about philosophy. If you know anything about Objectivism, probably it's biggest value is to help individuals love life and take values seriously. Leonard's dog was a huge value to him. You seem like someone who "understands" Objectivism rationalistically.

[@LeftUsername]

Except Wayne's World is based.

[@jackymarcel4108]

Lewis Carol Lee Ronald Allen Dorothy

[@raystargazer7468]

How old is he?? xD

[@volition51]

He will be 91 October 15.

[@edbonz2]

ATLAS TV SHOW should be screenplayed by writer KIRA PEIKOFF. She understands Romantic Realism. Mr Beilis does the film score. 2ND POST. Maybe MILES TELLER as JG.

[@economicfreedom8591]

Ayn Rand originally hoped that Atlas Shrugged would be adapted for a multi-part TV special, with the screenplay being written by Sterling Silliphant, a well-known screenwriter for movies and television back in the day. Somehow the project fell through (as so many do). The Atlas Shrugged trilogy of movies starting in 2011 is appalling on every level: weak casting; weak, "literal" transcribing of dialogue and action from the novel to the screen (an amateurish practice); thoroughly forgettable music; etc. Because of financial issues, the executive producer, John Aglialoro, had to recast the main characters in each of the 2 sequels. Interestingly, the original idea was to have a single movie (perhaps 2.5 - 3 hours long, with intermission) with screenplay adaptation by Randall Wallace (who also wrote the screenplay for Mel Gibson's film, "Braveheart"). The script was not chosen for lensing by Aglialoro, and oddly, has completely disappeared. But according to an online article a few years ago by someone who had read the script, it was supposed to be excellent because it focused on a single event in the novel that Wallace thought to be an "essential dramatic action" helping to unify everything else, including events that were supposed to concretize the philosophical idea of an "ability strike"; i.e., the extramarital affair between Hank Reardon and Dagny Taggart. Just as the romantic affair between Rick Blain and Ilsa Lund in "Casablanca" functions as the central narrative axis around which all of the other subplots in the movie orbit - the search for the "letters of transit"; the "trail of refugees" leaving Europe"; "Victor Laszlo" freedom fighter and his somewhat formal and cool relationship with his wife, Ilsa"; "Signor Ferrari" as head of all illegal activity in Casablanca . . . including human trafficking; and of course, the Nazi invasion of European countries itself. Philip and Julius Epstein, who wrote the screenplay (with additions toward the end by Howard Koch, a producer) understood that you can't focus equally on all of those events. From a narrative technique perspective (as well as from an understanding of what audiences respond favorably to) they made the on-off-on-off affair between the 2 stars of the movie - Rick Blain (Humphrey Bogart) and Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) - the central focus, and showed how their relationship was altered by all of the other subplot events mentioned above. That's just basic screenplay/story-crafting technique, something that wasn't followed in the Atlas trilogy. Instead, the producers opted for a literal, one-to-one transcription of events in the novel to events on the screen, resulting in a collision of multiple storylines that competed with one another, rather than lending support to a single storyline. Additionally, one of the end-credits cited David Kelley as the "philosophical consultant" to the movie. I've never heard of a "philosophical consult" to a movie production. It sounds like some sort of "storytelling cadre officer" whose job is to enforce compliance with a set of ideas that are expected to be "front-loaded" into the screenplay, rather than allowing those ideas to emerge *implicitly* as part of the actual storytelling process. Although I'm not confident the next production of Atlas will be better, let's hope that the writer follows basic story-crafting technique, and doesn't try to stuff everything into the screenplay.

[@chadfiction]

You cheeky monkey!

[@economicfreedom8591]

>>>"Unless you can give me an objective, geometrical proof that the notes of this exactly correspond to the words of Ayn Rand, it's out!" He wants a "geometrical proof" that specific musical notes in a symphony "exactly correspond" to specific words in a novel! That's possibly one of the silliest things I've ever heard from any Objectivist . . . even someone who declared himself to be Rand's "intellectual heir." Based on her own writings and lectures, two of Rand's favorite composers were Sergei Rachmaninoff and ragtime piano composer, Scott Joplin (she once said about the latter, "If you don't like his music, there's something wrong with you"). Could we please see an "objective, geometrical proof" that any sequence of notes in any work by those two composers exactly corresponds to any words in any work by Ayn Rand? The request is silly because the premise behind it is nonsense.

[@TheBestTom]

It was a joke, dial it back buddy

[@Cirnenric]

Peikoff is known for his dry humor. It’s good to recognize it.

[@economicfreedom8591]

@@Cirnenric >>>Peikoff is known for his dry humor. It’s good to recognize it. He's also known for weak reasoning on philosophical issues like epistemology and aesthetics, so it's difficult to tease apart which statements of his are attempts at drollery, and which at disputation.

[@Virtueman1]

You win: Most unaware comment of this video. Congratulations.

[@economicfreedom8591]

@@Virtueman1 >>>Congratulations Thanks! I gave up being a True Believer acolyte when I started thinking for myself. I guess you're still a cult member rereading Galt's speech for the 100th to make absolutely certain your own ideas don't stray a single iota from those of the Master. Good on you!

[@swgreen1974]

L probably libels K and this will never be published. Unsubscribed.

[@ThreeFingerG]

"Probably" On what basis do you claim this? Perhaps you are more educated on this than even I. Enlighten me.

[@exnihilonihilfit6316]

@ThreeFingerG Not every dumbаss on the netz needs to be engaged and tackled, ya know? 😁

[@evanwoodham6296]

​@@ThreeFingerGLibel isn't even the correct word, it's slander 😂

[@RonDiani]

It is now published

[@jamesvalliant6707]

She is not mentioned.