Okay Mr. RichRobinson, How about I pitch you this premise:

Ayn Rand/Atlas Shrugged fan finds the factory remnant shown in the image-header on this page:

www.GaltsGulchPortal.blogspot.ca

...just a thought - but then, thoughts are the beginning of...well...everything.

And I mean it.

Hi mj88. I really hope we find a way to make this happen. We have some great ideas here. You are definitely on the front lines when it comes to moochers. I like your thinking. Keep up the good fight.

I read this book for the first time at 17, and have read it numerous times since. I am now in medical school and everyday I find myself so thankful (yet very lonely at times in my thinking) that I found Ayn Rand as early as I did. Her ideals are my strength and guidance in entering a field that the looters and moochers are continuing to entwine themselves in. One of my favorite parts in the book is the excerpt from Dr. Hendricks.

If you do proceed with this project, I would love to provide a perspective from the medical field. I intend to pursue a fully cash based practice. I refuse to spend my life digging the graves of myself, my children, and my grandchildren.

I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask that he live for the sake of mine.

There would likely be so many quotes that it would
turn out to amount to plagiarism.

I was referring to the candidate Rand, so the other candidates can stay blissfully ignorant and be eliminated by the voters, assuming a fair and accurate count of votes, which is always in doubt, of course.

And the candidates.

I wish GOP voters would find Rand before it's too late.

I hear that a lot as well. I wish I had found Rand sooner!

Thanks JC. I think there are a lot of options creatively on how it could be done. Wish I had 10% of Rands ability so I could do it. She was a master at character and story development.

Not a problem. i was raised by very right wing conservatives, but then my mom passed away when I was 13 and my dad had fallen in love with and married an ultra left liberal... while i held true to my roots for a long time the marxist promises slowly, slyly, and stealthily infiltrated my psyche and infested my soul one lie at a time, until I could proudly espouse the sayings of Lenin as golden nuggets... and believe them like a member of the inner kabal... preach the unholy doctrine of Marx (and how my great grandfather and he were correspondents way back when) and make it sound like the holy gospel of socialist salvation and was the best thing since the newest 5 year plan...

Like i said, AR likely not only saved my soul from beyond the grave, she likely saved my sanity and my life. My ONLY regret it it didn't happen 20 years sooner.

Rich: As you say, "Either you love it or hate it." I have seldom found tepid responses to AS/Rand. I have heard over the years many comments, e.g., "Yea, good story but nobody can live like that." or "Impossible to follow such a philosophy."
Yet I have been surprised at how many have never heard of or do not understand what Objectivism is. Your idea could possibly bring this into perspective by the stories of the individuals and the impact that AS/Objectivism had on their lives. This would show actual living applications of Rand's philosophy. How better to relate to this powerful, life changing philosophy .

Susanne: I appreciate your frankness and candor.
Your story could be a part of this endeavor.
Bravo Susanne!

It was - You have no idea how grateful I am to Ayn for penning AS and giving me someone I could truly believe in...

Myself!

There are many Objectivists who don't know that they are Objectivists.

Hi NMA. So many people have had their lives changed by this book the story is written. We just need the creative minds to put it together.

One mind at a time Michael. Excellent.

What a let down. A fellow AS fan told me during his working career he gave out copies of the book all the time. He would then do something subtle(for example put a dollar sign next to his signature) and if they got the reference he knew they read it. Unfortunately some didn't bother to read it.

That could definitely work. I was thinking more of a fictional drama where the normal character themes are turned upside down. The leftie do gooders are bad---the producers are the good guys.

Never thought of it quite that way, but you certainly have a point.

Great story Susanne. It kind of summarizes the kind of movie I'm thinking of. Someone has their beliefs turned upside down by reading AS.

I have been amazed at how tentative some people are. I guess it's because people that don't like Rand really seem to hate her. Glad you are finding like minds.

That's a great story Herb. He may not consider himself an Objectivist but the message stuck.

What an inspiring story. The "tramp" on the train and his story is the best part of AS. If that part of the book was made required reading in our high schools, we would have more "Toms."

Ain't it the truth, brother... :-)

AS has a way of changing lives. Ask me - before AS I had devolved to a socialistic left wing semi-Leninist believer in the greatest good for the greatest number of people according to what everyone could provide for the common good, etc. THEN... I read AS. And it totally ruined this good little pinko commie's heart. I saw - explicitly and blatantly - the actions of the looters I once hung around with. I experienced the moocher mentality first-hand - not as a fellow moocher, but instead, as a producer. What I saw - from my former life - not just disgusted me, it sickened me.

True, I still have friends from that part of my life, but as to core beliefs - things like honesty, earning what you produce and deserving what you earn - seeing there was far, far more good in being a producer than a Moocher - exposing the toxic lie of the dogma I once blindly not just followed, but espoused... Having had my eyes opened, bluntly, baldly, and blatantly - they not only could not be diverted again from the truth, but it would be nigh impossible to be as blinded by such a false doctrine, a no-sum game as that which I used to embrace.

Some people can "claim" that they are objectivists, some can say they know both sides of the argument - but unless you have actually LIVED on both sides of the tracks, Lived - no BELIEVED with your soul the goodness of the evil, and had that ugliness and evil exposed before you, made - forced - to realize not that it's bad in theory, but shown how awful it is in realistic, real fact, you will never get the entirety of what Ayn was not only "selling", but what she was trying to save fools (like I was) from...

Some are grateful for her writing one heck of a good read. I am grateful for her, for perhaps saving my existence, if not my very life.

Do it in a kinda objectivist equivalent to those Michael Moore documentary movies maybe?