The band Rush just put out a handful of gross and lazy AI-gen music videos. So sick of this trend/degradation

https://piefed.world/c/fuck_ai/p/951818/the-band-rush-just-put-out-a-handful-of-gross-and-lazy-ai-gen-music-videos-so-sick-of-th

I don’t think Neil would approve of this.
Neil is proverbially rolling in his grave
Neil Peart was big into Ayn Rand. He would completely support this.
Only early on, like a lot of young men. He learned and grew like intelligent people do and realized her stories are just stories.

Nah. Pretty sure he held onto that libertarian BS until he died.

lfs.org/…/rush-songwriter-drummer-neil-peart-wide…

Rush songwriter-drummer Neil Peart widely remembered for his libertarian idealism, individualism

The lifelong libertarian idealism of Neil Peart, the Rush songwriter-drummer who died Jan. 7 and whose passing the LFS noted in a previous blog, has been highlighted in several of the major media e…

Prometheus Blog

Nope. He stayed die hard Ayn Rand:

Nearly two decades later, in a 2015 Rolling Stone interview, Peart reaffirmed this worldview, calling himself a “bleeding-heart libertarian”

thetapesarchive.com/the-evolving-mind-of-neil-pea…

The Evolving Mind of Neil Peart | Ayn Rand, Misinterpretations

This Neil Peart documentary looks at Ayn Rand, Misinterpretations, and What a Politician Got Wrong

The Tapes Archive

Bummer!

I don’t feel like the lyrics in later rush reflect that myself. Obviously the anthem era did. Later on a lot of it became more about the human condition

moving from Rand’s stark individualism to what he later called “bleeding heart libertarianism.”

Do you know what ‘bleeding heart’ means? From your understanding, what is the difference between leeding heart libertarianism and rand’s stark individualist libertarianism?

Neil Peart stands alone.