It is a good thing that the far left hasn’t figured out that an Atlas Shrugged sweatshirt is even more dangerous to their ideology than a red MAGA hat.

I wear my "Atlas Shrugged - No longer Fiction" T-shirt whenever I go to Whole Foods. I enjoy the scowls.

Thanks for sharing. A few weeks ago, I wore my Atlas which reproduces an image of the first edition dust jacket in Paris. A woman on St Germain recognized it and stepped into conversation with me on the meaning and importance of the novel to her. She always wanted a first edition, she said, so I handed her my card. I sell rare, signed and manuscript Rand, so the T turned out to be advertising.

To paraphrase Mike the Man from Mars (Stranger In A Strange Land, RA Heinlein): Thou art Galt.

I think the biggest issue with Objectivism is that most people are not philosophically oriented. They live in their emotions created by their past thoughts and experiences. Thats why education when very young is important.

I have had little success actually convincing average grown up people- I think for that reason

It's never too late to learn. Congrats to you for informing her!

I have been unable to type on the Internet for a few months, because I don't have one of these machines at home; I used the library; and the library was closed for a few months. It just reopened 6 July 2020.

Unfortunately, I can't order a T-shirt like that, because I have no assurance that it would not be made in a totalitarian state, and I am not willing to prop up Red China or any other totalitarian govern-
ment. (And I doubt that Ayn Rand would condone that practice, either.)

I have the "I am John Galt" shirt and people don't seem to know what to make of it, since they already know my real name.

Tell her to rea it again. took me three reads to figure it out.

Some of the lines I use when Ayn Rand becomes a topic of discussion - often initiated by me...

- Can I share my most outrageous assertion about her? ... She has done for philosophy what Newton did for physics! She grounded it in reality and made it a science for the first time. Look first-hand paying no attention to all the detractors or even fans like me. Many are fans for the wrong reasons and don't represent the ideas well.

- Ayn Rand is very controversial because she questions everyone's unquestionable assumptions. What do you think people do when their unquestionable assumptions are questioned? ... Yes, they attack! That's why every negative word in English had been used to describe her. It's smearing without reason.

- if this interests you, I recommend you read her ideas and judge them with your best intelligence and integrity to see if they will serve you well. If they don't meet your standard, then ignore them. But I recommend you ask how these ideas are justified, even if they contradict what you and others think is right. Look at the assumptions and reasoning - first-hand.

I saw a comment today on this thread from long ago. I didn't realize how much I missed some of the people who have shrugged even from Galt's Gulch.

One of my student employees was asking for peronsal information to put on my new company's web site. One of the questions was, "If you could, who would you like to share a cup of coffee with?" My response was "John Galt. And if you ask, 'Who is John Galt?', I told her that she would have to discover that for herself."

You happened to ask her what she did not understand, specifically?

It is a large tom and not surprising a snowflake burns out after the first 100 page.