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Beringia

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Mon Oct 19, 2020, 11:44 AM Oct 2020

Ayn Rand movie [View all]


I was looking for a good movie about a philosopher the other day and found one on Ayn Rand. When I read the Wiki page, I was aghast. She has followers like Alan Greenspan. She advocated that the industrialists or intellectual creators, should not have to "work for the masses". I thought, she could be Donald Trump's Mother. Yikes. And people like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos would love her. I thought the motto "Greed is Good", would fall in line with her philosophy too.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_Ayn_Rand_(film)


The film stars Helen Mirren as philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand, who engages in an affair with Nathaniel Branden, played by Eric Stoltz, a psychologist who is 25 years younger than she is. Branden built up an institute to spread Rand's ideas, but the two eventually had a falling-out. The film also stars Julie Delpy as Branden's wife Barbara and Peter Fonda as Rand's husband Frank O'Connor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
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Ayn Rand movie [View all] Beringia Oct 2020 OP
Ayn was a sexual predator and a favorite author of 12-year-old boys... BKDem Oct 2020 #1
Ayn Rand wrote the most Miguelito Loveless Oct 2020 #2
A few of my high school friends - all girls - cilla4progress Oct 2020 #3
I remember reading her books murielm99 Oct 2020 #4
I think I was perhaps less discerning! cilla4progress Oct 2020 #5
One thing to point out about The Fountainhead Fortinbras Armstrong Oct 2020 #6
Rand was against Social Security kairos12 Nov 2020 #7
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