A Manhattan Sunset

[Denny]

[Walden]

That looks like an intimidating place. Makes a human being feel insignificant.

[fearfaoin]

Makes a human being feel insignificant.

Not at all. Remember, Human Beings built that place, and have
destroyed large parts of it. One thing I actually agree with Ayn Rand
on is the significance of cities as a monument to Human achievement.

[Wombat]

Makes a human being feel insignificant.

Not at all. Remember, Human Beings built that place, and have
destroyed large parts of it. One thing I actually agree with Ayn Rand
on is the significance of cities as a monument to Human achievement.

I'm more impressed by the Cosmos. I think Rand is deliberately not telling you that only a certain kind of person could hope to finance and build the items that dominate that landscape. To the rest of us it can seem very impersonal.

Now wait a minute; isn't this a thread about cocktails?

[fearfaoin]

I think Rand is deliberately not telling you that only a certain kind of person could hope to finance and build the items that dominate that landscape. To the rest of us it can seem very impersonal.

The financers didn't build a thing. A large group of humans designed
and built them. The rich people merely supplied the materials and
the money. I think that's an unintentional irony in the Fountainhead.
All that talk of individualism, and it's teamwork that gets the serious
work done.

I am part of "the rest of us", and I didn't find NY impersonal at all; it
was alive and vibrant. Each building had a story and a purpose.
But, then, I grew up in a city.

[Wombat]

I think Rand is deliberately not telling you that only a certain kind of person could hope to finance and build the items that dominate that landscape. To the rest of us it can seem very impersonal.

The financers didn't build a thing. A large group of humans designed
and built them. The rich people merely supplied the materials and
the money. I think that's an unintentional irony in the Fountainhead.
All that talk of individualism, and it's teamwork that gets the serious
work done.

I am part of "the rest of us", and I didn't find NY impersonal at all; it
was alive and vibrant. Each building had a story and a purpose.
But, then, I grew up in a city.

If Rand managed an irony it would have to be unintentional.

Sydney is a bit like this on a smaller scale. Whether or not it feels impersonal to me when I'm there depends on my mood. I can be in a street with thousands of strangers scurrying past one minute and the next I can be in a shop laughing and chatting with a whole lot of people who know me. Or out of thousands of strangers, someone I haven't seen for five years can hail me. The contrast is quite striking.

[Congratulations]

If Rand managed an irony it would have to be unintentional.

OH SNAP

[fearfaoin]

If Rand managed an irony it would have to be unintentional.

OH SNAP

Yes. Well played.