I found Fountainhead because I heard so many people condemning it. I expected to hate it. I loved it, so I read AS. Then I found this site in search. I was surprised to learn most people have a different interpretation of it, so much so that many people said I was a troll actually trying to undermine the AS message. So I stopped posting for a few months, but I came back and found less negativity.

This brings up a question for me. How would a real Gulch keep out people who are anti-liberty without becoming a groupthink club of people who have passed a series of policy litmus tests?

In a sense, the movie's producers invited me - and many others. The film had its own website of course. There, one could sign up for news about the cinema version of the book; and I did. Those emails told us about Galt's Gulch Online and here I am.

Separating description, prediction, and prescription is not always easy. Hank Rearden solved Dagny's problem with a new kind of bridge truss or space frame. I never have seen it argued on any Objectivish discussion board. We do get some speculation about The Motor. Much more argument centers on whether or not Dagny should have killed the army guy and what should have happened to Eddie Willers at the end of the book. John Galt paid Dagny with a $5 gold piece struck in the name of the United States of America. "On whose authority?" Dagny asks. Yet, private money, even private gold money, was known in Rand's time and should have been known to Rand. Indeed, whether gold was nominally "illegal" or not, so much coinage is around that no one really needs to strike their own for a small town in Colorado.

Don't get hung up on the details, certainly not on the irrelevant details...