Alan Greenspan's Ayn Rand Connection Explored in BBC Documentary

[TheeHazelnut]

Run time: 59:33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz2j3BhL47c   Posted on YouTube: May 24, 2011 By YouTube Member: tarabg Views on YouTube: 5307   Posted on DU: May 30, 2011 By DU Member: TheeHazelnut Views on DU: 2280

 
This is the full first episode of the new Adam Curtis documentary miniseries "All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace," which someone posted to YouTube. Curtis directed the well-regarded documentary "The Power of Nightmares." In this new project Curtis explains how Alan Greenspan influenced our government to pursue Objectivist policies and how the US taxpayers have had our money stolen by Wall Street.

[pnorman]

1. K&R!

n/t

[PDJane]

2. Excellent connect-the-dots...........

[sasha031]

3. excellent documentary, thank you so much

[Bucky]

4. Damn. Intense. Very clear headed explanations of recent history. Where's part two?

[ljm2002]

6. Go back to the beginning of the video...

...there's a little blurb at the top that says "see part two here" or something like that -- click it and it will take you to part 2 on youtube.

K&R

[Althaia]

5. this was extraordinary

well worth the time to watch it.

K&R.

[otohara]

7. K&R

[dipsydoodle]

8. Kick

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[MrMickeysMom]

9. Stay with this one, kids.... very well thought out explanation!

For any who "poo-pooed" that Anonymous June 14th warning, this should explain why we should all be glad to perp walk them...

Thank you for posting this! I'll look for part two!

[SecularMotion]

10. Another impressive series by Adam Curtis

I watched episode 1 last night. This is the first I've heard of the Greenspan-Rand connection.

[otohara]

11. I'm Glad She's Dead

evil, greedy, bitch....

Read yesterday of her hatred for the disabled.

[JDPriestly]

12. There is a huge problem in attempting to apply Ayn Rand's philosophy

to the political, larger economic sphere especially if the person wanting to apply it wants to win wars or build skyscrapers.

We demand huge sacrifices of the men and women who serve in our military -- huge, huge, ultimate sacrifices.

We don't pay most of them very well. We ask them to sacrifice for the good of their country, for their fellow citizens, for their families, their loved ones.

There isn't really much in it for the people who serve.

In WWII, the whole country sacrificed and worked together. Since the Rand phenomenon became the rage in the 1960s, the country has disintegrated into raging, self-interested six foot infants. And our inability to actually prevail in any military endeavor reflects that.

The guys who went in and got Bin Laden just feet from a Pakistani military installation are an exception to this rule. They sacrificed for something -- maybe each other -- maybe for their country and their sweethearts and kids -- but they sure didn't do that for their own selfish interests. Too much risk. It would not make sense.

Those who see themselves as destined to be the architects may delude themselves into thinking that Ayn Rand's philosophy is working for them. But they are wrong. An architect cannot build his creation without the riveter (or the carpenter).

And that little guy, the riveter, the carpenter, is working to put food on his family's table, to help those he cares about. It's the sacrifices of people who are working for an ideal -- family, society, others, that make the architect's dream a reality. The guy at the top thinks he is a hero living only for himself, but he can achieve nothing unless others work for their ideals.

And so, ultimately, sacrifice, idealism, even cooperation win out over objectivism.

Ayn Rand's philosophy is a scourge on our country. No wonder we are in so much trouble.