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How is this getting upvoted? It reads like an entry in the Atlas Shrugged essay contest.

• maxharris 16y ago
  How is your statement any different from "I can't believe that several people don't agree with me"? Or could it be that there really is something to these ideas? There is a strong intellectual foundation here, and while the novel you mentioned describes much of it, a much fuller explanation can be found in her nonfiction work. As an intellectual movement, we're gaining steam. Here's a recording of a debate held in NY between Yaron Brook (aynrand.org) and Miles Rapoport (demos.org) just five days ago: http://www.archive.org/details/FirstPrinciples-Government_WhatIsItsProperRole_ http://www.archive.org/details/FirstPrinciples-Government_Wh... Here's a link to the debate site (WNYC is New York public radio): http://www.wnyc.org/articles/its-free-country/2011/mar/02/debating-first-principles-proper-role-government/ http://www.wnyc.org/articles/its-free-country/2011/mar/02/de... Right now, most people don't agree, but when they hear these ideas out out, they do realize that they constitute a respectable argument (and one that they haven't heard before). Twenty years from now, our ideas will be mainstream in the sense that most people will have heard them and have some idea of what they are (and how they're different from conservativism and libertarianism). Obviously, people will never agree with everything that anyone has to say, but that isn't the point. The point is to get people to think about this stuff in a productive way. The more people that do that, the better.