(Originally posted on MySpace: Friday, March 4, 2005)
Well, I was supposed to go with Lauryn to see The Aviator today, but she had too much going on and couldn't make it. So instead, I went to see it with my friend Chris. It was a fantastic movie. People have been talking about how it has "Objectivist" themes in it, and I wholeheartedly agree. I'm not a big fan of Ed Hudgins, but his essay exploring the various Objectivist influences in the movie is fantastic. There were so many great scenes in the movie that it's hard to decide which ones to talk about first. Near the beginning of the film, there's a scene where Hughes is directing the movie "Hell's Angels", which was the most expensive movie ever made to that date. He is in the cockpit of a two-seater aircraft yelling frantically, extremely "pumped up" about the scene being produced, and all the sudden an airplane flys by and knocks the camera off of his plane. Hughes doesn't even miss a beat, but immediately pulls out his own personal movie camera and begins shooting the scene himself. The effect of this is to show you just how fanatical this guy is about his work. It is truly the love of his life. There are scenes like that all over the movie, with him shouting orders at employees and them telling him the things he's asking can't be done. His response is always "don't tell me it can't be done. Don't ever tell me things can't be done." Until the movie for Atlas Shrugged comes out, this is probably the next best thing you'll ever see.
In other news, it looks like I am going to be very busy the next week or two. Next saturday is the <A href="http://database.lpgeorgia.com/register.cgi">Libertarian Party of Georgia Convention</A>, which I think is a great oppurtunity to recruit some new people into the Objectivist movement. Me and several other people from GO are going to be there to let people know about our organization and all the things that we're doing.
The thursday after the convention, Yaron Brooke, the Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute, is coming to give a speech at Georgia Tech on "Why America is Losing The War". If you think Brooke is going to give the answer that we're losing the war because we shouldn't have been in it in the first place, which would be the answer that Ayn Rand would have given, you are unfortunately mistaken. Suprisingly, the so called "Ayn Rand Institute" actually supports the war in Iraq, despite the fact that it goes against everything that Ayn Rand said about foreign affairs. In fact, not only does Yaron Brooke support the war in Iraq, he thinks we are being overly concerned with minimizing civilian casualties in Iraq. According to him, we shouldn't worry about civilian casualties, but should just kill anyone that even remotely stands in our way. Several members of GO have been complaining about Brooke's distortion of Objectivism for a while, and it looks like we finally have the chance to do something about it now. There will probably be a question and answer period after the speech, and I am going to use it to my advantage to heckle the hell out of that idiot. Doing so will definetly be alot of fun. Stay tuned for results. ;)
I'm headed to The Future tomorrow with James Robinson and Chris, and am going to get really drunk and dance my ass off. See you all later. :P
