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Is it funny, or sad that there's an Ayn Rand Club for Philosophy Students at my Uni and they're spamming the entire Humanities student body's email.
The first meeting is next Wedesnday.

Do I go and mock?
Or do I avoid the proto-fascist crazies?

Help me out dear friends.

I'm just... who would have thought? Randians on campus, and they could be anyone. Cooo! Maybe I should go and scope in order to know who to avoid for the rest of my academic career.
When I was a teenager I was a Randian, read all her books, felt that I was Smarter and More Capable than Thou... loved "The Selfish Ideal".
Then I finished adolescence.
Like may things Randinism is a phase.
How can people, students of high theory, philosophy and such actually consider this woman to be anything other than a stylish author!?
Digressing over.

So? Should I stay or should I go? *duh-na-na-na-naa*

Date: 2008-11-10 07:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kaetien.livejournal.com
I've never read anything by Ayn Rand and have only a vague idea of her and her writing. I get the impression this is a good thing :P

Why even think on it, hun? Don't bother putting effort into getting worked up over this - focus on better things :)

Date: 2008-11-10 07:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gonzo21.livejournal.com
You see, your fundemental logic error there is in assuming that philosophy students are any smarter than any other type of student. :)

Date: 2008-11-10 08:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] corvus.livejournal.com
Oh God I hate them. I'd probably jab pencils into my ears if I had to hear them talking about the Objectivist opinion on modern Israeli politics.

Date: 2008-11-10 09:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] morin.livejournal.com
No! you should join me and S. for dinner!

Date: 2008-11-10 10:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arnavtul.livejournal.com
funny a while back there was an ad up on the notice board from someone selling used books and under the category of philosophy it said Ayn Rand etc. Every time I saw it I stared in bewilderment.

Date: 2008-11-10 11:27 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sabotabby
OMG, GO! I mean, if you have nothing better to do. If there's a chance of you maybe taking in a good movie or getting laid, do that instead. But if you have the time to spare in order to make me laugh my ass off at your report-back, DO IT.

(If you haven't noticed, making fun of Randroids is my favourite hobby.)

Date: 2008-11-11 04:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lilacsigil.livejournal.com
Go only so that you know who NEVER to date.* No, seriously, don't go there. The dental bill from the teeth grinding will not be worth any potential LOLs.

*exception made for people under 18 who are still writing Mary Sue fic. But you shouldn't date them either.

Date: 2008-11-11 04:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thecityofdis.livejournal.com
Don't go. You wouldn't appreciate them showing up to your meetings with the intentions to mock and ridicule; don't do it to somebody else.

Date: 2008-11-11 07:56 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Oh my effing made up god, I'm gonna have to write a memo to my brain: "stop bilocating to Melody's!"

we're so going.

yael

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V and Justice

V: Ah, I was forgetting that we are not properly introduced. I do not have a name. You can call me V. Madam Justice...this is V. V... this is Madam Justice. hello, Madam Justice.

Justice: Good evening, V.

V: There. Now we know each other. Actually, I've been a fan of yours for quite some time. Oh, I know what you're thinking...

Justice: The poor boy has a crush on me...an adolescent fatuation.

V: I beg your pardon, Madam. It isn't like that at all. I've long admired you...albeit only from a distance. I used to stare at you from the streets below when I was a child. I'd say to my father, "Who is that lady?" And he'd say "That's Madam Justice." And I'd say "Isn't she pretty."

V: Please don't think it was merely physical. I know you're not that sort of girl. No, I loved you as a person. As an ideal.

Justice: What? V! For shame! You have betrayed me for some harlot, some vain and pouting hussy with painted lips and a knowing smile!

V: I, Madam? I beg to differ! It was your infidelity that drove me to her arms!

V: Ah-ha! That surprised you, didn't it? You thought I didn't know about your little fling. But I do. I know everything! Frankly, I wasn't surprised when I found out. You always did have an eye for a man in uniform.

Justice: Uniform? Why I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about. It was always you, V. You were the only one...

V: Liar! Slut! Whore! Deny that you let him have his way with you, him with his armbands and jackboots!

V: Well? Cat got your tongue? I though as much.

V: Very well. So you stand revealed at last. you are no longer my justice. You are his justice now. You have bedded another.

Justice: Sob! Choke! Wh-who is she, V? What is her name?

V: Her name is Anarchy. And she has taught me more as a mistress than you ever did! She has taught me that justice is meaningless without freedom. She is honest. She makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike you, Jezebel. I used to wonder why you could never look me in the eye. Now I know. So good bye, dear lady. I would be saddened by our parting even now, save that you are no longer the woman I once loved.

*KABOOM!*

-"V for Vendetta"

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