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• [Question 2]

John: Alright, this one is from Matt, he writes, "Dear John and Hank. A friend of mine whom I have known for years, has started reading Ayn Rand." Můj přítel, kterého znám už léta, začal číst Ayn Randovou." Oh, this is terrible news. To je hrozná zpráva. This is terrible. I’m concerned about Matt, but I’m mostly concerned about Matt’s friend. Mám starost o Matta, ale hlavně o jeho kamaráda. "It’s irritating for friends and family." "Přátele a rodinu to dráždí." I don’t doubt it, Matt. O tom nepochybuji, Matte. "But more than that, those ideas hurt everyone and everything around whoever spouts them." "Ale co víc, tyto myšlenky škodí všem a všemu kolem toho, kdo je vyslovuje." "Mas, mais do que isso, essas ideias ferem tudo e todos ao redor de quem as expõe." So true. To je pravda. "He’s just begun this. "Právě s tím začal. How do I help him realize that this path is not good and is a detriment to this planet? Jak mu mám pomoci uvědomit si, že tato cesta není dobrá a škodí této planetě? Thank you very much." Ah, it’s so rare that I find someone who hates Ayn Rand as purely as Matt and I do. Ach, je tak vzácné, že najdu někoho, kdo nenávidí Ayn Randovou tak čistě jako Matt a já. First off, thank you for your question, Matt. It’s really moving, it’s profound, and it gets at the heart of literature in the United States, which is that Ayn Rand is the worst, is the worst author in print today. Je to opravdu dojemné, hluboké a dotýká se to podstaty literatury ve Spojených státech, a to, že Ayn Randová je nejhorší, nejhorší autorka, která se dnes tiskne. É realmente comovente, é profundo e atinge o cerne da literatura nos Estados Unidos, que é que Ayn Rand é a pior, é a pior autora impressa hoje. And you want to talk about books that shouldn’t be on your to-read list, how about you just knock off The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, boom, saved yourself 2,500 pages. A když chceš mluvit o knihách, které by neměly být na tvém seznamu k přečtení, co kdybys prostě vyřadil The Fountainhead a Atlas Shrugged, bum, ušetřil sis 2 500 stránek. E você quer falar sobre livros que não deveriam estar em sua lista de leitura, que tal você simplesmente cancelar The Fountainhead e Atlas Shrugged, boom, economizou 2.500 páginas. I can summarize it for you nicely, which is that if you imagine a world that is different from the world that actually exists, then always acting selfishly would make sense. Můžu vám to pěkně shrnout: pokud si představíte svět, který je jiný než ten, který skutečně existuje, pak by vždycky dávalo smysl jednat sobecky. However, we don’t live in that world that doesn’t exist, so it doesn’t, you know, so Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead are both irrelevant to our actual lives as actually lived. My však v tomto neexistujícím světě nežijeme, takže to není, víte, takže Atlas Shrugged i The Fountainhead jsou pro náš skutečný život irelevantní. There’s something incredibly exciting about reading Ayn Rand for the first time, because you feel inevitably like the characters who are at the center of the stories, you feel like a special snowflake, you feel like, you know, the world is aligned against you and if only, you know, things were fair and just and everyone acted according to their will, you would rise to the top as inevitably you should. But the difficult thing is realizing that everyone experiences that when they read Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead which is precisely why those books are so popular and still in print. Mas o difícil é perceber que todos experimentam isso quando lêem Atlas Shrugged ou The Fountainhead, que é precisamente por que esses livros são tão populares e ainda estão disponíveis. But yeah, I completely agree with you, Matt. Ale ano, naprosto s tebou souhlasím, Matte. All I can say is that usually, in time, people abandon objectivism and when they don’t, you abandon them. Mohu jen říci, že lidé obvykle časem objektivismus opustí, a když ho neopustí, opustíte je vy.

Hank: I’m just gonna leave that one all to John, 'cause I know very little about these books. Hank: Tohle všechno nechám na Johnovi, protože já o těch knihách vím jen velmi málo. Well, actually, I’m super interested in actually reading them and I would if they were not so large, because I want to see the techniques used to make people get so riled up about this worldview and so, like, they just, like, eat it so deeply that it then, for many people, affects them for their entire lives and then you hear, you know, people who are super smart who have been affected by this and then bec... go on to become quite successful talking about how these books influenced them. No, vlastně mě hrozně zajímá, jak je číst, a četl bych je, kdyby nebyly tak rozsáhlé, protože bych chtěl vidět techniky, které se používají k tomu, aby se lidé tak rozvášnili kvůli tomuhle světonázoru, že ho prostě tak hluboce konzumují, že je to pak u mnoha lidí ovlivní na celý život, a pak slyšíte, víte, lidi, kteří jsou hrozně chytří, kteří tím byli ovlivněni a pak se stali docela úspěšnými a mluví o tom, jak je ty knihy ovlivnily. And I think in some ways, it creates good business people because it, not necess... not like, good for the world, but good for business, good for a particular business, because it makes people feel very empowered in their selfishness.

John: Right, right.

Hank: And so, when I... I get discouraged when I, you know, when I read that some, that many very powerful people have this worldview, and it’s just, it’s very upsetting, because it basically requires you to believe that most people are just- Hank: A tak, když... jsem znechucená, když, víte, když čtu, že někteří, že mnoho velmi mocných lidí má tento světonázor, a je to prostě, je to velmi znepokojující, protože to v podstatě vyžaduje, abyste věřili, že většina lidí je prostě...

John: Inferior.

Hank: -are un... are inferior. That is the correct word, yes. To je správné slovo, ano.

John: That they are fundamentally less than you. John: Že jsou v podstatě méně než vy. You, of course, always being the one who isn’t inferior, you, the one who has read this book. Ty, samozřejmě, jsi vždycky ten, kdo není horší, ty, kdo četl tuto knihu. Yeah, no, there’s a guy running for President of the United States who’s literally named after Ayn Rand. Jo, ne, na prezidenta Spojených států kandiduje člověk, který se doslova jmenuje po Ayn Randové. Um yeah. So I think, you know, this is a place where I have especially strong feelings, and I know a lot of people will disagree with me, and I should say, because it is true, that I might be wrong and I often am wrong and, you know, it’s totally possible that I’m completely wrong about Ayn Rand, but I do have incredibly strong feelings about her work. Let’s move on, Hank, because I feel like this comedy podcast has taken, it again, a turn for the darkness.

• [Question 3]

Hank: Alright, well, Robert asks, "Dear Hank and John," this question is for me, apparently. "Hank said that he would not go to Mars given the chance." Because, to be clear for those who weren’t listening, because of nausea and also fear of death. "But if you had the chance to have a Total Recall style memory of Mars implanted into your brain, would you?" Of course I would! Yes!

John: You would?

Hank: Yeah, that’d be amazing!

John: That’s a terrible plan.

Hank: Why? What? Really?

John: Have you seen the film Total Recall? Like, do you, are you familiar with the movie?

Hank: Right, well, that has nothing to do with the way that the memory was implanted into his brain, it was all about previous occurrences of his.

John: No, Hank, things go terribly wrong when you have implanted memories, period, all the time, every time. Have you never read a dystopian novel, never get a memory implanted!

Hank: But, if it just came to me right now, without anybody else having been on Mars, then I would get to know all kinds of things that would be new to science. I would have an obligation to science to get this memory implant. Měl bych povinnost vůči vědě získat tento paměťový implantát.

John: You know, I was just having breakfast with a friend of a friend, and we were together recalling terrible things that have happened to us over the years that now feel almost like pleasurable memories. John: Víš, právě jsem snídal s přítelem svého přítele a společně jsme vzpomínali na hrozné věci, které se nám v průběhu let staly a které nám teď připadají téměř jako příjemné vzpomínky. Because, you know, like you have this wild experience that at the time is very unpleasant, I was remembering, for instance, this sailing trip that we took in Sweden with really good friends of ours, and one of whom, by the way, is a fan of Ayn Rand, and I don’t know, maybe a listener to this podcast, and so maybe I’ve just offended him terribly, but he, regardless, we’re still really good friends even though we have different worldviews, and we were on this sailboat in Sweden, Hank, and it was August and my wife had brought a bikini and I had brought a nice pair of swim trunks, except that it was actually like, -45 degrees Kelvin. Protože, víte, jako když máte takový divoký zážitek, který je v tu chvíli velmi nepříjemný, vzpomněl jsem si třeba na jeden výlet na plachetnici, který jsme podnikli ve Švédsku s našimi opravdu dobrými přáteli, a jeden z nich je mimochodem fanoušek Ayn Randové, a já nevím, možná posluchač tohoto podcastu, a tak jsem ho možná právě strašně urazil, ale on, bez ohledu na to, jsme pořád opravdu dobří přátelé, i když máme odlišné světonázory, a byli jsme na té plachetnici ve Švédsku, Hanku, a byl srpen a moje žena si vzala bikiny a já jsem si vzal pěkné plavky, jenže bylo vlastně asi -45 stupňů Kelvina. It was colder than absolute zero, and it was just unbelievably awful. |||||absolutní nula|||||| Byla zima větší než absolutní nula a bylo to neuvěřitelně hrozné. By the way, when I say degrees Kelvin, people get really mad, so...

Hank: Yeah, well, also when you say below absolute zero. Hank: Jo, a když říkáš pod absolutní nulou.

John: Well, yes, exact... Now I’ve infuriated the Randians and I’ve also infuriated the people who believe in science and so really, we’re down to an incredibly small audience. ||||||rozzuřil|||||||||||||a také||||||||| John: No, ano, přesně... Teď jsem rozzuřil Randiány a také lidi, kteří věří ve vědu, a tak jsme se opravdu dostali na neuvěřitelně malé publikum. So, anyway, it was extremely cold in Kelvins, and... But somehow, I have fond memories of this trip, even though at the time, I enjoyed, you know, I basically spent three days feeling cold and nauseated, occasionally playing this Swedish card game called Plump, and it was generally horrific. Takže, každopádně, v Kelvinu byla strašná zima a... Ale nějak na ten výlet vzpomínám rád, i když jsem si tenkrát užíval, víte, v podstatě jsem strávil tři dny zimou a nevolností, občas jsem hrál švédskou karetní hru, která se jmenovala Plump, a bylo to celkově hrozné. We went to one island that was occupied by nothing but rats, but it was occupied by so many rats, it was just an unfathomable number of rats per square inch, so that when you walked to the bathroom, which was the only building on the island, you would walk past literally thousands of scurrying rats, scurrying all over your feet, which had to be, you know, clothed in very, very large boots, because it was so incredibly cold in the Swedish August and yet, somehow I have really fond memories. So I feel like the other thing I would say about you wanting to get these memories implanted is that the memories would, in a way, be a lie. They would inherently be a lie, like, memory is incomplete and deceitful, so I’m not sure that it would be scientifically useful.

Hank: That’s true. There is truth there. There is truth in that very, very, very, very, very, very long story that had nothing to do with, nothing at all to do with Mars.

John: (Laughs) It’s funny, I always make fun of you for being the king of tangents, but in fact, I just, I just did the worst, I did the worst tangent we’ve ever had on this entire podcast.

Hank: Just was like, rats. So many rats. Rats everywhere.

John: Does anyone wanna hear the story of my time on a sailboat in Sweden? Answer: no. I’ll tell you anyway, don’t worry. Fear not, faithful listeners, I have returned with tales from Sweden in 2008.

Hank: No, I mean, I think that there are a lot of memories that I would like to have implanted in me, like the memory of... Like, we could take Russ, and we could say, let’s just implant the memory of having read those 25 books, and you don’t have to read them.

John: First off, he only had 23 books on his must-read list, you have a terrible memory. Secondly, I think when it comes to giving Russ advice, we’ve gotten way distracted and we need to focus on the core advice, which is that Russ, along with the other people of the United Kingdom, need to make sure to see the Paper Towns movie when it comes out in August. Em segundo lugar, acho que quando se trata de dar conselhos a Russ, ficamos muito distraídos e precisamos nos concentrar no conselho principal, que é que Russ, junto com outras pessoas do Reino Unido, precisa ter certeza de ver o Filme Paper Towns quando for lançado em agosto.

Hank: Alright, John. Hank: Tudo bem, John. You wanna give us a question?