[beavus]

Interesting points, but you have to remember that Atlas Shrugged was an idealization. Rand said her favorite literary form was the romantic (not romance :->) novel. The pristineness of the themes and characters should make that readily clear. The idealization is a good vehicle for clearly communicating specific ideas. It shouldn't be confused with a Polaroid of daily life.

[RepublicanReptile]

Having read The New Intellectual, I still have yet to read any concrete explanation as to how a world of Objectivism would be created, without it's adherents becoming what they had diposed, i.e., the " Witch Doctor" and the " Attila"( which is what Nathanial Branden discribed as the ruling personalities in mankind for all of time)