vison wrote:No, that Scandanavian philosopher would have, though. [Can't think of his name. Dag? Ragnar?]
Søren Kierkegaard?
How so?
No, no!! Not a real guy. One of Ayn Rand's characters in Atlas Shrugged. I can't remember the guy's name.
In real life, I knew a man named Soren Sorenson. And another man named Anders Anderson. AND another man named Lars Larsen.
Them Norskis, eh?
Ah! Greenspan's doyenne...
Gosh, I was slow there!
I have known a Robert Robertson and a James Jameson, both English, but the "saddest" is an old school acquaintance, of Scottish parentage. He was called Henderson Henderson...
vison wrote:No, that Scandanavian philosopher would have, though. [Can't think of his name. Dag? Ragnar?]
Søren Kierkegaard?
How so?
No, no!! Not a real guy. One of Ayn Rand's characters in Atlas Shrugged. I can't remember the guy's name.
In real life, I knew a man named Soren Sorenson. And another man named Anders Anderson. AND another man named Lars Larsen.
Them Norskis, eh?
Ragnar Danneskjold, he robbed from the government and gave to the taxed.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
-- Samuel Adams
I wonder if anybody the other side of the Herring Pond has seen Adam Curtis's majestic dissection of the foundations of our current economic woes, Machines of Loving Grace
Part one focusses on Ayn Rand, and is replete with interviews of her acolytes. Moreover, as with all Curtis productions (Power of Nightmares, The Trap) there is an intoxicating mix of hard analysis and humour. The archive interviews with Rand really do showcase her...
[Can't think of his name. Dag? Ragnar?]
