Ayn Rand Interview with Tom Snyder (1979)

, aynrandinterview, tomsnyder, aynrand The Russia born writerphilosopher Ayn Rand is guest on The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder during this July 3, 1979 interview, newly uploaded for 2021. Rand discusses her overview of objectivism; how objectivism differs from religious dogma; the importance of man s reason as his basic means of survival; the immorality of acting upon whims, emotions; the virtue of rationality; Rand s childhood recollections and being unchallenged by her school s curriculum; writing screenplays and novels during class as a child; her claim that she has been an objectivist since the age of two years old and that she has not changed her convictions since; religion as philosophy; her lack of fear of death; her feeling that America is being destroyed by universities preaching collectivism, mysticism, and altruism rather than American ideals of individualism and capitalism; her criticism of President Jimmy Carter; German philosopher Immanuel Kant as the ruling philoso