 gabrielAdministratorDin: Bucuresti
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Putin umor, si nu, nu genul ala de ironie metafizica :-) "Stairway to Heaven" reinterpretata ca Obiectivism. De pe Internet ;-)
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There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold <- Rand professed optimism and wanted to switch to the gold standard
And she's buying a stairway to heaven. <- Materialism is good, money is a great definer of value
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.
There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven. <- For these last four, she attacked the use of double-meaning words like 'selfishness' to mean 'immoral', and said that our self-sacrificial ethics are completely false. She said that they're like this.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder. <- John Galt was the one who 'questioned your code of ethics'. They made him question them, wonder what was right.
There's a feeling I get when I look to the west, <- Praised the western world and the route American values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
And my spirit is crying for leaving. <- She ran from the Soviet Union and moved to the states.
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees, <- She witnessed people being prosecuted in the USSR
And the voices of those who standing looking. <- People watch, I guess.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder. <- She wondered what the free world was like.
And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason. <- She loved Aristotle and praised Objectivism as the 'philosophy of reason'
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter. <- She said that life was, at route, happy and humorous, and that any one who wants to have reason and live for them selves can have a virtuous life.
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on. <- You can, at any time, become rational, when, like John Galt says, you say that you will not live for another man or have one live for you.
And it makes me wonder.
Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him, <- Join the piper, her, and her former cult in Manhattan.
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind. <- Do you understand what's happening, Rand?
And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul. <- As time goes by and the light we block is greater than the best within us.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold. <- Same thing with how she professed optimism and money and the gold standard and materialistic values.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last. <- If you think objectively, you will understand that each man is an end in him self.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll. <- 'All are one and one is all' is evil collectivist morality. Don't conform to the opinion and oppression of the majority's morality. Be a human, but don't go with the crowd 'to be a rock and not to roll'
And she's buying a stairway to heaven. <- Same as earlier.
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