"The Anti-Industrial Revolution" by Ayn Rand 

"Anyone over 30 years of age today, give a silent “Thank you” to the nearest, grimiest, sootiest smokestacks you can find."

This is amazing. Whoever is doing this at the Ayn Rand Institute needs to keep doing this for more of her talks and Leonard peikoff talks. Bravo! I can imagine a video like this being shown to students in high schools or colleges.

Thank you ARI for producing a matching video for this speech.

This woman is a genius ,way ahead of her time ...a true visonary

This work should be taught in every classroom in the high schools and colleges in America.

As a student of the UANL in México I find it disturbing to see more than half my college peers writing their graduating thesis about food preservation to stop using fridges and other projects alike.

Now consider the 2010 Haiti earthquakes versus the California ones of this July (2019). The Haitian earthquake was 7.0 and had small aftershocks and killed over 300,000 people. The California earthquake was 7.1 with two other strong (>6,0) earthquakes. Only one person died.

Ladies and Gentlemen Ayn Rand intellectual bad ass. #MustWatch

"There are no plastic bags." Welcome to California!

We could use a few more of Ayn Rand in this country right now🇺🇸

Amazing and sharable

Excellent talk and video.

Please another time thank you for the work, but dim down or cut the music its too loud

Love the way you put this together

When she published this in '71, I "criticized" her for being "late to the dance". I was aware of this since the late third quarter of '68 when it was part of the hippies' nature worship. I have called it "Ecology" and "The Church of the Sacred Tomato Worm". Knowing what the Establisment was capable of, I feared that it would become a "thing" One thing has changed, however. Realizing that their vicious attacks on science was getting them nowhere (just what made them think that any one with a modicun of maturity and a moiety of their marble would ditch the one thing that makes their lives comforable, worthwhile or even possible, would make anyone with 4 adjacent working brain cells scratch their heads), the decendants of the "Ecology" now the "Greens" (who identify with ferns, grass and poison ivy), and who have been polluted by their own fungus and fertilized by raw bullshit, can only give us pseudo-science, being unable to think past the range of the moment or to a level of 1+1=2. proclaiming that 2+2=5, give us this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mtHreJbr2WM.html&lc=z232hjiqlxztcdadcacdp435m5q2qfeg5quiwbhg5ppw03c010c.1545482994130050 ADDED: I "cross pollenated" by posting at that video a link to here

I watched Greta Thundburg right after this, 48 years after the speech in this video

This is AMAZING. One wonders how someone from then knew what would happen now. It's because it's a repeating pattern, but today writ large.

Sie war einfach genial 🙏💖

Never been a huge fan of Rand, but she's 100% right here.

I wish we were taught about Ayn Rand in high school! I did not learn about her until i was 24 years old!

I started this video with a motivation for the anti industrial revolution but it makes it hard to agree with my same values. I’m still have many questions after watching this. Can this video speak for the issues of today? Even if we can’t/ wouldn’t want to live without technology, it still feels like there is a major issue with heavy industry. Is there some middle ground between keeping essential technology and heavily reducing the wasteful kinds?

She's too good isn't she !

It’s interesting that the environmentalists threaten with polar bears disappearing since Ayns times

Who takes up the presentation starting on 52min 05 seconds? No signal whether it’s a transcription of Rand or some other speaker?

Spot on.

I couldn't watch it to the end, because the first 10% gave me enough nonsense to rant about :) Well, it looks very much like a description of the USSR - old appliances, public transportation, etc. But the reason was not the pollution or the environment... The reason was that the ruling communist elite used the money for their cars and luxury vacation homes and the military ofcause. The rest of the population got things that were economical to produce. Only government work meant no competition, that meant no innovation was welcome. Actually, the Communist elite wanted innovations and people wanted to invent, they were very creative and simply couldn't resist inventing something. But the director of the factory had the plan to produce a certain amount of ovens, and when he met an employee that just invented a toaster he simply didn't have the resources to accommodate it. There is no profit for him also. He sold everything to the government in bulk. The government put it in the stores and the population was buying it because there were no alternatives. So now the director should go to the minister of the sector that produces appliances and present that innovation. The minister probably has the toaster that his wife bought during their trip abroad and he doesn't want to spend government money on the population. It is not like the population will bring some profit because they already spend all the money the government pays them. So the director will explain to his employees that they are not interested. Now, if we care about the environment in the capitalist society we actually could stimulate the economy and innovation. We can use solar panels on the roof of the house to generate energy and it will be enough for a toaster and oven and whatever. BTW toaster should spend less energy than the oven. You heat just a surface of the bread or you have to heat the oven that is 10 times bigger. Hmmm But it often happens with Ayn, god bless her heart. Then nowadays we invented the Internet and we can work from home most of the time. Garbage could be generated from restaurants and from households so I don't know why we keep on restaurants. The post-industrial era came because of innovations. We can replace most of the labor-intensive work with machines and robots, which could provide a different demand for labor. You may not need to go to work every day, but control the automation line remotely. You can be able to produce a small amount of product and a huge variety because you can give robots the task of doing it. It become difficult to find a job now. It could be a downfall or actually a liberation of mankind from boring jobs and an opportunity to use people for more creative jobs.

Kill the heavy sentimental background music ffs. Rand’s voice is fine alone. The supporting slides is a nice bonus but not at the expense of yanking at heartstrings when trying to focus. With Rand, every word counts and it takes focus to weigh each one!

The background music is much too loud, you almost drown out the speaker!

The environmental movement gave us a lot of ideas for innovation - solar and wind energy for example. No, we have internet and we don't need to go to work every day. Yes, she had a point about a few idiots who think ancient life was the most natural, etc. But it is nice to have parks for recreation, a clean ocean, water and air that are not polluted. I would prefer to live near the river, forest or ocean and not near an airport or a production plant.

Она была во всем права!!!🙏👍

You can eat porrige instead of cerials.

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29:09 - Wear eye protection FFS

27:50

Music is too loud

Support nuclear energy and we can all have what we want. A clean environment and a strong economy.

There are no plastic bags -- that one is coming to pass right now.

She predicted the future

el problema con esta presentacion es que las imagenes no ayudan al discurso.. si bien el discurso es razonable..luego las imagenes son inculpatorias..Somos seres visuales y dicen aquello de que "una imagen vale más que mil palabras.." tengo la sensación que esto es lo que ocurre en este curso..el discurso hablado es uno y el discurso visual va por otro lado.. Sorry, pero lo veo así..muy a mi pesar.

This lecture was 53 years ago, and the same thing is happening today...🤬

Bro this is so disturbing I mean our current reality is really disturbing. I would literally prefer 1800 over our days, but can we go earlier? I'm afraid of that, too much epidemies, too much dirt, too much identity crises, ...

Why the hell isn't Atlas Shrugged not on any required reading lists is beyond me. But we are forced to read pinko writers like Miller. Quite frankly disgusts me. And, then we wonder why the young ones are so hep to the Bern?

Balance between technology and nature is probably better idea,like balance between emperor and empress

Why the music? It competes with her voice. Hate it.

So prescient. Or it may be that nothing much has changed in 50 years

"Separating legitimate concerns about pollution from the movement’s deeper animus" You might want to look up " weather modification history" apparently it's okay to pollute our atmpshere with carbon black and bio-techs metal nanoparticles

Greta Thumberg thinks that the UK should apologize for starting the industrial revolution.

The arguments here are not sofisticated enough at all. As always in Rand's work, the ethical and moral aspect of the critic is astounding. But there is missing a serious scientific analysis. It's most clear in the part that it says "look at how big the planet is, surely we can't emit too much C02!". That was a surprisingly childish argument! Another example: "If heavy industry is bad, life expectancy should decrease, but it has been increasing in industrialized countries". What about long term effects? I'm not saying there is evidence that heavy industry is bad, I'm just saying that this is not a valid argument to prove that heavy industry is good, because it lacks an analysis of long term effects, like the release of CO2.

Start making food 3 houers in advance 😂 breast feed omg, she is walking to the grocery shop 🤔 ...some of this sounds familiar to me. My mother life was much like this.

Wow, this has NOT aged well. Life expectancy declining, record temperature increases, I was a fool to be an Objectivist in college, as Rand's arguments now proven irrational here

"POWER" We all desire to be treated fairly by government, corporation and the ultra rich and yet most have no inspiration to treat the animals nor the planet with the same kind of commitment. The powers that be, which is a false sense of power, i am referring to the ultra rich and anyone who desires to be rich or they are rich, (the only real power that exists is the power of nature) it seems most are oppressed and confused by "power", or are they? The reality is we are trapped in a cycle of a dysfunction, a relationship of a "codependent" kind, although most will probably not see it like this, and have accepted the fact that we are dependent on this system for survival. This makes think of a quote by Ward LeRoy Churchill, an American author and political activist. " In order for Europe to do what it has done to us-in fact, for Europe to become “Europe” at all-it first had to do the same thing to all of you. In other words, to become a colonizing culture, Europe had to first colonize itself. To the extent that this is true, I find it fair to say that if our struggle must be explicitly anticolonial…yours must be even more so. You have, after all, been colonized for far longer than we, and therefore much more completely. In fact, your colonization has by now been consolidated to such an extent that….you no longer even see yourselves as having been colonized. The result is that you’ve become self-colonizing, conditioned to be so self-identified with your own oppression that you’ve lost your ability to see it for what it is, much less to resist it in any coherent way". Industrialized humanity exists in a confused state induced by the rich and enabled by the masses and the willingness to be civilized, when embracing civilization has caused the masses to become confused in the first place, which leads me to see and to understand that we are all trapped and have been manipulated and coerced into a dysfunctional codependent relationship with POWER! It is no secret that Europe has colonized most of the world. And industrial civilization is on a path of self destruction! Welcome to the Anthropocene. The way out is "disaster evolution" this could very well be the path. My point of view comes from the understanding and then realizing that industrial society is not mine, nor are my ancestors responsible for its creation, although they have come to depend on it and so have i, but i have absolutely no desire to maintain any kind of commitment to it and would prefer to see it collapse. The Holocene extinction, otherwise referred to as the sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction, is an ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene epoch (with the more recent time sometimes called Anthropocene) as a result of human activity, which is the industrialization of the natural world. In due time this will all be taken care of..! An activity in which we are all participating in - A collective symbiosis through our consumerism, procreation and industrious activity, we will find peace. The dominent industrious cultures of the world are a collection of idiots. Defended and supported by their moronic minons!

Fear monguering much? Interesting point of view, but it seems like her conclusions are based on straw man falacies and illusion of explanatory depth and objectiveness.