Objectivist theme song

Posted by Ibecame 9 years ago to Culture

What do you all think about the old song "Sunshine" by Jonathan Edwards as a Objectivist theme song? Maybe some of you could come up with some other well fitting pieces.

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Posted by edweaver 9 years ago

All good but I vote for Rush to top the list. Just the opening line says it all. "The mind in not for rent"

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  Posted by dbhalling 9 years ago
  
  That is in Tom Sawyer
  
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Posted by dbhalling 9 years ago

My future's so bright I got to wear shades https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRh4-czx...

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Posted by dbhalling 9 years ago

How about Tom Sawyer by Rush https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsKBIBJj...

Or how about Superstition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CFuCYNx...

or how about Joy of Man's Desiring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlfPxh8O...

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  Posted by Ibecame 9 years ago
  
  You pull in a wide variety (so do I). Great selections. Funny about your picking "Superstition". I had someone just yesterday "explain" to me that Ayn Rand and her Philosophy were nothing but Superstitious cr**. No I didn't let it bother me. One has to consider the source of comments like that.
  
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    Posted by Tracy 9 years ago
    
    Wow. Superstitious crap? Obviously dont know what they are talking about. Although AS was published in 1957, while reading it I was absolutely amazed because it was like she was writing about what's going on RIGHT NOW. Superstitious? Hardly. Ayn Rand was a genius.
    
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    Posted by nsnelson 9 years ago
    
    Sounds like someone who has not read AS, or is so prejudiced that they are blind to the truths and the potentialities becoming realities that she described. Or they are just passing along ridicule of they overheard from such a person.
    
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Posted by SaltyDog 9 years ago

How about "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" by Pink Floyd.

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  Posted by davidmcnab 9 years ago
  
  Nice, but very tragic. About a wildly creative visionary whose mental health completely collapsed and left him maimed.
  
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    Posted by SaltyDog 9 years ago
    
    He did, however, enjoy a successful career in the visual arts. It could be argued that he simply marched to the beat of a different drum.
    
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Posted by Zenphamy 9 years ago

Don't Dream Its Over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I52eefwA...

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Posted by dbhalling 9 years ago

My choice is "Went to a Garden Party" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFugRFKq...

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  Posted by rockymountainpirate 9 years ago
  
  I love that song. I was just playing it on my guitar yesterday as a matter of fact. It's a perfect Objectivist Song.
  
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Posted by Stormi 9 years ago

I like the "My Way" suggestion, written by Paul Anka. However, another Pink Floyd song would caution us of what can happen too easily, indoctrination. "Another Brick in the Wall", which is where US public education has gone, and religion as well. Too easily we become robots to supposed good intentions. We need to keep that in mind not matter the setting, is can be a slippery slope.

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Posted by TFREEDOM 9 years ago

My Way: written by Paul Anka, sung by Frank Sinatra.

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  Posted by freedomforall 9 years ago
  
  No thanks, I'd prefer to sing it my way.
  
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Posted by allosaur 9 years ago

This sounds just like Big Brother.

"He can't run his own life.
I'll be damned if he'll run mine."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5cPKopE...

http://thenationaldebtcrisis.com/the-nat...

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

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Posted by edweaver 9 years ago

Thanks for this post. I'm not good at finding songs that fit but I sure like mooching off those that can. What a great way this started my day off. :)

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Posted by khalling 9 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Af372EQ...
ah fugue

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Posted by khalling 9 years ago

ok this is always fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WehUfuVQ...

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  Posted by Ibecame 9 years ago
  
  Great Choice. I have always been partial to this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lIzkLJE...
  Lessons learned are the one thing you can take as much as you want of and no one can take them away from you.
  
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    Posted by khalling 9 years ago
    
    I just listened to the whole album this morning while sipping some Oaxaca brew. throws me back to my early teens. I discovered DF one summer working as a counselor in training at Girl scout camp. that was an interesting summer. I was 14 and driving a pick up truck with 12 canoes on a trailer back and forth to a lake. ha! and that was also the summer some crazed felon escaped from prison and brutally murdered some girl scouts in their tent just a state away from us. I gained alot of knowledge that summer :)
    
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      Posted by Tracy 9 years ago
      
      It wasn't a crazed escape felon. The man who was charged did not commit the crime. The real killers (yes, plural because one man couldn't have done all that was done) have never been caught. I live in the neighboring town where it happened. Read "Tent Number 8"
      
      But what a great trip down memory lane. I love reading stories from people's youth. Thank you for sharing.
      
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        Posted by Zenphamy 9 years ago
        
        Yeah, they went after the indian. I never thought he was the one. I was born in Grove.
        
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Posted by Eudaimonia 9 years ago

I wish I saw this earlier.

But put my vote for "White China" by Ultravox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jbBv6Wh...

An cautionary tale of Communism and what is in store for Hong Kong.

"When pale turns to pink
With a soft unnerving ease
And all you've built around
May just tumble to the ground

We stand or fall
With your future in another's hands
We stand or fall
When your life is not your own

When white turns to red
In the not too distant days
Will force and misery
Be the life you have to lead?

We stand or fall
With your children in anothers world
We stand or fall
When your town is not your own

Chorus:

White China
White China

When crimson takes a hold
When the lights go down on all you've ever known
When all you'll ever do
Is worked out for you

We stand or fall
When the thoughts you have are not your own
We stand or fall
When the freedom slips away

White China"

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Posted by wdg3rd 9 years ago

From the film "Alongside Night" (which would be a good one for Atlas Productions to distribute):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oj7jj0jSM6...

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  Posted by winterwind 9 years ago
  
  As one who always, always, always votes for March of Cambreadth {herein as the center of a trilogy] https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/pla...
  I think I've gotta say that Schulman wins again. This is scary good.
  
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    Posted by wdg3rd 9 years ago
    
    Though the performance is by Jordan Page, the words and music are by Neil's daughter Soleil. Solely sings the movie's title theme, reminiscent of the best James Bond themes. https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=ySRrsXzu...
    
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    Posted by winterwind 9 years ago
    
    Here is a better edition of Courage Knows no Bounds, just with acoustic guitar and Alexander's voice. she's something else. https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/pla...
    
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