The previous "civil" war was not civil, and the coming one will be less so. The biggest problem will be the loss of morale on our side.

This is precisely why the MORALITY of Objectivism needs to be promulgated. We should not and cannot afford to apologize for standing up for own rights as individuals. Collectivism needs to be trashed as being the immoral non-thought that it is.

It is all unfolding before our eyes. It will get much, much worse, I fear. I see a civil war coming.

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I have gold coins, but they are certainly traceable.

FDA approval for my UV disinfection products would be a bonus, but hardly is necessary for what I plan to sell. If anyone here is good at frequency doubling, then I have a project for you. This sounds like a job for John Galt!

We have been working on an exit strategy for years here in Galt's Gulch, but there isn't a consensus yet on where it should be.

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For now, Melbourne, FL isn't Atlantis, but it is surprisingly well shielded from the negative parts of the outside world, perhaps due to the high concentration of people who understand how to do satellite communications around here.

common Gold coins and junk Silver coins are a much more marketable commodity of course, and more difficult to trace at such time as you might need to trade them for something else

I too have a hard time not being creative and productive. I am a mechanical/electronic engineer ever since graduating from MIT years ago. I have started and sold a number of companies (except for the current one which makes LED lighting for offroad and industrial applications

I left medical devices about 10 years ago for two reasons 1) the need for FDA approvals before you can sell a medical device. That can take a long time and is subject to the whims of the state science institute- making it mostly impractical from a money making standpoint, and 2) the fact that the company is always under the gun and can be shut down for simply not producing the item in accordance with FDA good manufacturing practices- you work years building it up, only to have it shut down because the FDA inspector doesnt like you.
I am willing to help you out in terms of experience and advice at any time, or course.

Encourage your young producing progeny to learn from me at Florida Tech's Nanotechnology Minor Program, as I pay to advertise in the Gulch.

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I have bought a significant amount of gold as an inflation hedge. If I become a criminal for keeping it, then so be it. When a society allows foreign national rotters to enter illegally but denies foreign nationals who proceed via a legal immigration process of mutual benefit, when a society allows rioters to wantonly destroy history when storeowners and other producers can't even re-open their businesses, when "news organizations" become lying propagandists, and someone who is obviously senile is leading presidential polls, that society is on a COVID-contaminated respirator.

I am sort of like Quentin Daniels in that I teach at an "institute of technology". I am partly a biomedical engineer and am starting up a new company based on a range of UV LED (instead of the usual one lamp or LED) wavelengths to kill ALL pathogens.

Today is the fifth anniversary of my mother's death due to a C. difficile infection. To kill C. diff, you need a shorter wavelength than the 254 nm used in home HVAC systems.

We have built a modified Roomba to use UV LED's to clean floors, are building a sterilizer box that provides visual and/or spectroscopic validation of whatever is put inside it (originally meant to clean the Roombas), and have put together CAD drawings and wiring diagrams for a UV dry cleaning for hospital and lab coats, and with minimal modification, for grocery carts. For the "UV dry cleaning", we will need additional funding, hopefully from customers via crowdsourcing, but perhaps from additional investors who see the value in what I create (and definitely not from The State Science Institute or other looting governmental entities).

I know that you just hinted that you are on strike, but if you would like to either a) be on my university program's advisory board or b) be an affiliate or investor in my company, contact me via private messaging. My university, Florida Tech, isn't quite the Patrick Henry University, but it is about as close as you are likely to find.

In some respects, I am a bit like Dagny in that I have a hard time giving up on humanity, but I prefer to think that what I am doing is preparing for the return of the productive to society. I know that, in the past, I have wondered in this forum why would anyone return to society after the Atlas Shrugged complete collapse. Here, I admit my biggest contradiction, but probably not my only one. I enjoy producing and teaching others to produce so much that I have a remarkably hard time completely shrugging. If I were to not produce and teach others to produce, my mind and body would quickly atrophy to the point that life would no longer be worth living. Every time that I take a break of over a couple of days, I get sick!!

you guys better hope Trump is re-elected and the repubs win back the house and keep the senate. I have grave worries if semi-senile biden wins, or the dems win again in the house (they will restart impeachment) or somehow win a majority in the senate.

I think the most important issue for us is to figure out just what IS coming in terms of reactions of our government (fed and state and local) to increasing violence, economic collapse, and attempts of citizens to insulate themselves from the government controls and directives.

Obviously the dollar will depreciate due to federal reserve actions. The question is what will they do and how can we best insulate ourselves from the effects, and which of those things will be forbidden. For example, buying gold might be a good thing, but FDR forced citizens to sell their gold to the government at a low price under penalty of being a criminal if you kept it.

Our schools and colleges have been producing useful idiots for years and the quantity is now at critical mass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4kHi...

Unfortunately it takes a little longer for producers with a savior complex (like Dagny ... and like me) to shrug completely. We have so much to give up.

The 'strike" was accentuated in AS in terms of a few very notable people.
What we see today is that an increasing number of people, individually not as important as the ones in AS, are just pulling back and not trying as hard as they might have, or switching to more menial and unimportant jobs.

I can tell you that I used to design and manufacture medical devices, but I made a specific decision in the early 90's to sell off what I had done to the big companies and get out of medical devices for good (once the FDA got their hooks into it). Thats one small instance of "striking". I started a small company in off road LED lighting which was unregulated. I havent seen a government inspector since that time, but there are NO new medical device ideas that come from me, probably forever.

Multiply that by probably hundreds of people who have made similar decisions and its easier to see a current "strike" .

This pandemic where certain industries were deemed "essential" (politically preferred), and the rest "non essential" shows the aristocracy of pull in action.

My small company was deemed "essential" for some reason, so I got to stay open. If it had been deemed to be "non essential", we would have closed down and eliminated all employees forever in order to preserve whatever assets were there.

The governor of Nevada, a true uneducated democratic idiot, just makes proclamations that we are supposed to just accept and follow. The latest is that nearly all of us need to wear masks while outside our houses or inside public or private businesses. He actually said the requirement was being delayed ONE day so businesses could get ready for it. How nice that HE says what business should adapt to and how fast they should adapt.

This is getting close to a situation where more people will just make permanent changes in their lives, which in the aggregate could be considered a "strike".

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True solutions to society's problems, those that not only work but also drastically reduce the income of the goons and leeches who are allegedly paid to work on solving them, are repressed.

Evidence: Intravenous hydrogen peroxide, known by anyone familiar with biochemistry (cytochrome enzyme chain) to partially substitute for inhaled oxygen, remains illegal and would be of obvious benefit against COVID-19 (it afflicts lung function; H2O2 was noted in the Lancet a century ago as helpful against the flu) thanks to the FDA Fool and Dunce Administration. When I wrote to Trump and Senators about it earlier this year, the substance of my recommendation to use it was ignored.

Evidence: Inspired partially by a former girlfriend who had been badly damaged by being raped by her father as a two-year-old, I put together a short DVD based on conservative and libertarian principles intended for the use of motivated pedophiles: if they can be reformed, so much the better for them, also their reform would prevent children from being mishandled in the future. Meanwhile, if my approach is proved to be successful then the income of sex-offender-registry workers and perpetually needed counselors would be erased. The Maine medical board gave me a very hard time for my efforts; call (207) 287-3601 and ask about Complaint CR10-206 for details. I let my Maine medical license lapse and, thereafter out of its reach, put the DVD's content into a book. When I later had to go to jail in Maine (bad divorce), the jail staff didn't want the book although I offered it. It's at http://www.harshman.name/brightwriter....

AR wrote what she thought would happen if collectivism became mainstream. It HAS, and her predictions are coming truer day by day.

The issue now for us is what sort of horror shows will happen specifically in the future and what can we do (if anything) to insulate ourselves from the bad effects. This is THE issue of the day, IMHO.

Your days are numbered.

Brilliant list of current conditions. Where are we with respect to the book? As I remember, it was the second-to-the-last page where all the lights went out (the electrical grid collapsed) because of all the fires, and there was nobody left to put them out or to repair the damage. President Thomson's lights then went out and he couldn't (or wouldn't) understand why. American cities are now burning. If these riots spread (and they WILL - until they are PUT DOWN!) its only a matter of time. The last page claimed that all those who were "on strike" and hiding out in the Gulch would return to the world and rebuild things according to their image. In the "real world" who will rebuild?

I thought that I had summarized everything from Atlas Shrugged that had happened in recent years in this post, only to see mshupe post this about the Concerto of Deliverance, the next chapter in Atlas Shrugged!

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If I come to Milwaukee, we'll meet.

If you come to Milwaukee let me know. We could try to make time for lunch. Would love to meet you.

Come join us in Melbourne, FL.

You are in Wisconsin. There is a bastion of production left there. Today's American Motor Company pre-shrug is Generac. I can tell you why in a more private forum, but I might be traveling up to Milwaukee, because of what they have accomplished.

We have had a pandemic of anti-thought.