"Apollo and Dionysus" by Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand at the Ford Hall Forum - Lesson 10 of 19
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In this 1969 lecture delivered at Boston’s Ford Hall Forum, Ayn Rand contrasts two prominent events from that summer’s news: the Apollo 11 moon landing and the Woodstock music festival. Using the Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus as symbols of “the fundamental conflict of our age” - reason versus irrational emotion - Rand explores the mindsets of participants, commentators and spectators in search of the two events’ philosophical causes and meaning.
In the Q&A session following the lecture, Rand expands on the subject matter of the lecture and also addresses such topics as the legalization of marijuana and other drugs, the “space race” and reasons for going to the moon, the morality of the Vietnam War and the war’s protesters, Rand’s view of her purpose in life, and government controls on pollution.
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  • @deerscream3476
    @deerscream34762 жыл бұрын

    What a fantastic talk. The West is sorely lacking in citizens of this caliber. My heart breaks when I hear this woman speak, knowing what's happening within Western society today.

  • @elgrigorio1

    @elgrigorio1

    5 ай бұрын

    That is unfortunately true, try having to always be around citizens of this caliber, it's a drain. Although, I will say that I have had luck introducing many people around me to Ayn Rand and her ideas.

  • @whatwhat678
    @whatwhat6783 жыл бұрын

    Ayn Rand’s work on ideas will stand the test of time. Western society will hit a brick wall and that will be relatively soon.

  • @8888sam
    @8888sam3 жыл бұрын

    fantasic! what a mind!

  • @Mr.Witness
    @Mr.Witness3 жыл бұрын

    1:08:40 q and a

  • @user-uo5st2re6m
    @user-uo5st2re6m Жыл бұрын

    Although Nietzsche did say that he was the last disciple of Dionysus. He also stressed the importance of the merging of the Apollonian and Dionysian. He regard the ancient greek's prosperity and greatness as a result of that merging. They worship both gods, not just Dionysus or Apollo

  • @miketaylor1349

    @miketaylor1349

    10 ай бұрын

    He led a quite Apollonian life, though. His art was was structured and conventional in many ways and his literature was analytical and descriptive. Theorically challenging conventions is not enough to embrace Dionysus. Dionysus is a physical, explorative and risk-taking god. Nietzsche maintained a aesthetic distance from chaos. He romanticized it, instead of letting himself fall into it.

  • @Aethertopia369
    @Aethertopia36923 күн бұрын

    "They didn't know enough to come in from out of the rain" have you ever been young? At least for me, these experiences can be some of life's sweetest moments, as many of the Woodstock attendees have attested to. The best from the hippies' generation, not the ones who sold out their ideals, and overly conformed back into the mundane society, have certainly contributed to astrophysics, so her generalizations are not objective.

  • @Tommyharty_
    @Tommyharty_ Жыл бұрын

    1:00:00

  • @dramares
    @dramares3 жыл бұрын

    CLAPS UNNECESSARY

  • @johngleue

    @johngleue

    Жыл бұрын

    Sounded like drunk people at a comedy club, not even knowing why they're clapping. Bunch of hostile imbeciles in the questions period for sure.

  • @cherylnagy126
    @cherylnagy1264 ай бұрын

    the space race to the moon was undertaken to demonstrate U.S. superiority of U.S. (German assisted) rocket technology over Soviet achievement

  • @borradorprobero431
    @borradorprobero431 Жыл бұрын

    5515

  • @bretnetherton9273
    @bretnetherton92735 ай бұрын

    If existence exist as something what is that something, and if existence exist as all things what knows all things?

  • @toucansam246
    @toucansam246 Жыл бұрын

    She was naive.

  • @user-uo5st2re6m

    @user-uo5st2re6m

    Жыл бұрын

    How so?

  • @joanallisonkica739

    @joanallisonkica739

    9 ай бұрын

    Nixon "spoke" to the crew on a "land line"? The whole story is just that, a story, filmed in England. Search for yourself.

  • @exnihilonihilfit6316

    @exnihilonihilfit6316

    5 ай бұрын

    A monke somewhere in the world had an emotion in its gut and puked it out in KZread's comment section, like a drunkard's puke on a museum's stairway. What's new?

  • @thesaneparty4079

    @thesaneparty4079

    3 ай бұрын

    nonsense

  • @jacksonstone246

    @jacksonstone246

    Ай бұрын

    Implying you have special knowledge unattainable to the senses, reason and logic. Go dance in mud hippie.