There is a golden cord that runs from the Greeks to the present: Aristotle, Aquinas and Ayn Rand, followers of which (each in well-considered fidelity to their own respective "Master" or "Mistress") ought to unite into a three-pronged Order of the Golden Braid or Cord ... or even Chord (i.e., if you're "musical,"...

[meta-ethical digression]: ...and if you're human then, I think you should be. Essentially, but not primarily, because music is the ultimate mnemonic (it holds together your mental and creative flourishing), but primarily or fundamentally because music is the "glue" that enables a mind to hold itself together, to be a living integration of all that you know, and all that you have observed in the world, and how you must live given the contents of your own soul, which must be or become what you must know to grasp fully that John Galt is -- not ought to be -- but IS the hero or lover in your soul: SPEAK-UP FOR HIM PROUDLY if you Value your Life and your Self (which is your Mind and therefore moral right to Profit (ours is socio-ethically a campaign and strike for justice -- it's flip-sIde poetic irony, a license to "amuse" that is due to expire very SOON: "Act Now, Supplies WILL NOT Last !!!

Do no longer ask yourself what would Howard Roark do -- he lived in a far more rational universe. Today's generation of mystics and looters are using your toys to distract and blind you.

We are confronted with a Many without a One (which is Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand in my honestly considered opinion -- and her's the cultural, economic and potentially political revolution that she declared by publishing Atlas Shrugged, a mountain whose revolutionary declaration of total independence, total liberty or nothing stated at the pinnacle [GSS-001 to 296] and it's pinnacle: The Oath he took at the start of his journey, the hero in your soul (SAY IT: "Your Life Belongs to You" (and to NO-ONE else), it's YOURS -- stop giving it away this Galtdamned second!! [Well it is their "Blaspheme Day" today].

So if you know what's good for you, and you stay active with what you will need for the re-building, and you join my Brigade: Galt Sub-Station 296 is where the Speech ends and Your Revolution begins (and the corollary realization in your mind symbolized by such words as "Atlas Spoke ... and I went into Atlantis." --My grammar is atrocious, but if you do these three things and work with our two disreputable but necessary allies, we can REIFY ATLAS' REVOLUTION and carry it through -- psychologically, socially, and culturally and with total consistency, any less is killing me, but not killing Galt. Because I can say that "I AM the REVOLUTION," a revolution of one and I'll die on the scaffold you helped your countrymen erect against me.

I've been watching a history of philosophy course by that great British American Neo-Aristotlean or Thomist Presbyterian professor of philosophy at Wheaton College --- after Dr. Peikoff's audio lecture and transcript available at Ayn Rand Campus, if you want an engaging and honest presentation: this is it: the link in the title is the lecture I'm on as this idea occurs to me (the historic bridge suddenly snapping into place).

The other thing I saw was the to couple my understanding of The DIM Hypothesis with "God's (and the DNA of the Golden Braid: Reason's) Enlightenment Warriors under Queen Elizabeth was until now, the last global religious war we've had: a war of all "faiths" against all "faiths" or "none."

I look forward to all constructive feedback or total ignorance on the subject (i.e., silence). Please be familiar with The DIM Hypothesis and the subjects it deals with, and how to act in accordance with The Order of the Golden Cord will take shape from a temporal-geopolitical grasp of the principle as stated: the Principle of the Golden Cord, which must not ever be severed or we cast the future adrift in a sea of chance and destruction.

UNITE WITH ME (or "stand" in the creeping shadows as the horizon grows DIMmer and Blinder by the Hour.

This is a wake-up call. The Neo-Kantian Dementors are on a suicide-run against the Purely-Platonic Horde, from every out-and-out crusader to the vast majority of silent-consenter nodding in the wings, they WILL turn the world into N. Korea (Iran will look worldly in hindsight, to say nothing of Russia, and forget about China, they're on a collision course with "destiny" too (just as Russia was his father, China was her mother).

In gold united,

Egopriest of the Galt Brigade [GSS-105], in cultural-political alliance with honest (i.e., egoistic) members of the Orders of Aristotle (not "neo-anything"), and the Secular Thomistic (i.e., worldly) Order (again, no "neos," "quasi's" or "pseudos" are welcome, "cyrptos" maybe, talk to your Order).

So re-read Atlas Shrugged, in particular study Galt's Speech (those are our "marching" orders), Read or re-read The DIM Hypothesis: Why the Lights of the World Are Going Out" by Leonard Peikoff, and I would suggest also "God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot," and one other very important book by a man who was dear to me but has recently passed away, Burgess Laughlin's "The Power & the Glory: The Key Ideas and Crusading Lives of Eight Debaters of Reason vs. Faith" (which I'll be happy to quote from copiously if it proves hard to come by).