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"Playboy" at the Atlas Society Booth at Freedom Fest

Posted by WDonway 9 years, 11 months ago to Philosophy
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This "Playboy" story on FreedomFest, libertarianism, and Objectivism is great fun. In the end, I think, it will be very helpful to us. The one thing it accomplishes is to move "libertarianism" in the popular mind from a set of scare terms and smears to a group of individuals with real ideas, different ideas... and something new to say.

I am very proud that when the "Playboy" writer reached the Atlas Society booth, he encountered the radiant, eloquent, uniquely poised Chick of The Free Mind, Laurie Rice, and she had the presence of mind to say something perfect about what scares so many people about Objectivism: Yes, you really are responsible for your own life. We aren't urging Congress to mandate that; reality and human nature require it. Laurie said it so much better. Great fun; read it. I think she will get hundreds of marriage proposals... The "Playboy" Bunny is SO yesterday...

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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 11 months ago
    Whoa! She IS good. Not only intelligent, and good-looking, but able to think on her feet and verbalize the thought. Too bad I'm too old for her -- and crazy about my wife. (60 years together next month -- and counting).
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 9 years, 11 months ago
    Good stuff. Young people thoughts on government inefficiency,? Beautiful, it absolutely is.
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  • Posted by NealS 9 years, 11 months ago
    My father-in-law passed away just over a year ago. In his closets he had a few Playboy magazines, obviously a long time subscription. We've got at least 6 file folder boxes firmly packed full. My wife said her mother (his ex) had thrown out 10's of prior years. Any suggestions on what to do with these? Perhaps Craig's list?
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 9 years, 11 months ago
    I obtained a pamphlet of the 'Playboy" interview in
    1971. I understand that "Playboy" treated Ayn Rand with more decent respect and less misrep-
    rentation than some other periodicals. But I still
    consider "Playboy"an obscene, pornographic magazine which publishes photographs of naked
    people, displaying private sexual parts and mak-
    ing public and common that which should be
    held private and sacred, and have long been
    puzzled as to why she would deign to give them
    an interview in the first place.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 9 years, 11 months ago
    Probably a whole lot more objective than the main stream media...
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  • Posted by Temlakos 9 years, 11 months ago
    Why do we have to go to Playboy to get any good stories about Objectivism and what it's all about? I recall Alvin Toffler's interview with Rand.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 11 months ago
    Aahh, they still should've had a Bunny somewhere.

    But I think the Playboy ideology had a good deal of Objective, or at least individual freedom, within it from it's beginning.
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