what nonsense. PM me Hash, if that is important to you. I do not openly share where I am

Means! Ugh. By what means?

Which means you don't have a US ZIP code and so can't be found in the Galt's Gulch directory. :-(

There needs to be other search criteria. Not being 17 yrs old, and traveling regularly, I can "imagine" meeting a Gulch member somewhere beyond where I can ride a bicycle to.

A nice feature for locals would be a message option for a radius (100 miles might be ok here) to allow them to come to a hosted event. I would be happy to buy beers for Gulchers that want to engage in how to educate and fix things, not just whining.

See, you are out of the stress of being stateside. The hurricanes are a bitch, though! ;-)

hash, I am the top contributor on the site and I am out of the country

Try allowing a larger search area. Maybe 250 miles. Meeting in the middle is only a couple hour drive.

By what's are you able to galt?

Yep it's a cool feature - but it really should work for non-US locations too!

Doesn't have to do proximity calculations internationally, just enable text search on the city / country profile fields.

If not for those who've truly shrugged and fled the USSA, do it for the producers still trapped inside - it'll be handy for them to have friends on the outside when the lights do finally go out! :)

Cheers!

So what you're really trying to say is that the member directory is a really cool, fun, lite, feature to connect like-minded individuals. Got it. ;)

Hash, you know, you don't hang out in here enough. You going to be in the Dallas area anytime soon?

There's no really free place left on Earth, but it's possible to use the differences that exist between countries to achieve a high-level of freedom, both individual and financial. Also, doing that fosters competition between countries to attract the Galts of the world, thereby promoting freedom-valuing policies worldwide.

Sure, we all shrug in different ways, but the most fundamental has to be to shrug off slavery and withdraw the sanction of the victim. That means, stop paying taxes to Leviathan. Anyone who hasn't done that is a slave, and in fact the actual cause of the problem. Evil is powerless without the cooperation of good men. This is why Hank and Dagny were the people Galt and the Gulchers were fighting in Atlas, not Thompson and Mouch.

Being a "fan" of the art and philosophy while continuing to let oneself be enslaved and used as a tool for the enslavement of others is not Going Galt in any way, shape or form, nor is it consistent with the principles of Objectivism.

What free place did you find to galt to? By 'free' I don't mean monetary free I mean individual freedom. Also, how do you make your living? (We all 'shrug' in different ways.)

Nope, I'm not in BC. I travel and focus on international diversification, which is AFAIK the only real way to Go Galt in today's world (would love to know about others). I don't feed the beast that's out to enslave and kill me and my fellow man.

The Galt's Gulch Member Directory excludes people who have opted for the most practical and effective means of Going Galt.

And let's face it, MOST people living full-time in the USSA (especially, but the same applies to people living full-time in many other countries) are feeding the beast, and continue to accept partial slavery as a way of life.

As I said, super-ironic.

Not all are still in the States.

How do you "Go Galt" while remaining in the USSA? I'm sure there are a few methods, but I'm not aware of any really good ones. Would love to know about them.

Anyone who's paying taxes to the US federal government (even if under compulsion) is definitely feeding the beast and so a part of the problem.

I really don't mean this in a bad way, but looks like you are in BC, same poo different toilet?

Thanks. It's pretty cool to see where, in most cases, people are scattered about.

In that you are most decidedly incorrect. There are quite a few here who have already "Galted". Keep your presumptions to yourself.

Yep - this is Galt's Gulch. Welcome!

Am I on the Galt's Gulch

Discovered “Atlas” 1966, then read everything ever published by Rand (far as I know) plus most of the stuff written ABOUT her, plus a LOT of the publications of MANY of the people influenced by Rand (& influencers of Rand) in philosophy, economics & politics, subscribed to the Ayn Rand letter, the Intellectual Activist, etc. for as long as they were published … AND most (perhaps all) of her audio material, as well as that of the Brandens, Peikoff & dozens (hundreds?) of other audio presentations by others influenced by Rand. We were facilitators for many of Peikoff’s taped courses in our area & corresponded with Rand for a while. Disappointed that I did not get to NCY to meet her in person before her premature exit from the planet.

I’m in agreement with most of the Objectivist positions, ‘tho I’ve never completely understood her Esthetics and, after 40+ years of study, I FINALLY graduated from her minarchist limited-Constitutionally-limited government to the more consistent and rational anarcho-capitalist position, which we’re presently calling the Win-Win Free-Market Stateless Society.

Are any of y’all familiar with the work of Andrew Galambos & Jay Snelson?

‘ealth & ‘appiness on ya!

How about making it non-US-only?

Super-ironic that the "Galt's Gulch Member Directory" only lists those who are still on the sinking ship (and therefore, still contributing to the problem) and not those who've actually gone Galt in real life.