Monday, July 20, 2009

Apollo Moon Shot

Apollo and Dionysus [audio]
by Ayn Rand
Ford Hall Forum | 1969

This lecture, delivered by Ayn Rand at the Ford Hall Forum in 1969, concretizes the issue of reason vs. emotion via an analysis of two contrasting events of that year: the glorious achievement of the Apollo 11 moon flight and the mindless mud-wallowing of the Woodstock rock festival.