Ayn Rand’s Playboy Interview
The Atlas Shrugged writer gave an interview to Playboy in 1964. Her philosophy could be called conservative, though it really has its own unique elements. I agree with a lot of it but not all of it. There is no perfect philosophy, though my favorite philosopher is Diogenes.
Wasn’t objectivism part of what sort of destroyed Steve Ditko’s career?
He arguably worked on one of the finest comic book runs in the 1960s (the first 38 issues of Amazing Spider-Man) but gave it all up at its height. You hear different things about arguments with Stan, creator credit, and so on, but it seems over the years he’s never really fought for anything and he had a weird comment about the co-creator credit he received in the Spider-Man movies…
Something to the effect that it “wasn’t Stan Lee’s position” to give co-creator credit on Spider-Man?
I don’t know, as much as I appreciated Ditko’s Marvel work I sometimes find what little I hear about his reasoning difficult to follow or swallow.
Some people are their own worst enemy.
Posted by on 07/13 at 09:59 PMYes, Ditko is a total Ayn Rand disciple. In the film “Masters of the Comic Book Art” that caqme out in the 80s (I have it on VHS somewhere) there is a monologue by Ditko (he is never shown because he refuses to be photographed) where explains everything in terms of Ayn Rand’s theories. It sounds like a rant, more than a monologue.
There’s a story that when Jim Shooter tried to get Ditko to work with him at Defiant back in the 90s, Ditko said he couldn’t because “your universe is Aristotelian instead of Platonic.”
Posted by on 07/13 at 10:18 PM
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