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To: Publius

If you read the book when it was published, Galt’s Gulch was plausible. Reading it now, the scenario where you take a small group of producers and completely hide yourself where no one in the rest of society can find you is too far fetched.

If they really do make this a movie, it will have to be categorized as sci fi and not a thriller.


3 posted on 08/08/2009 7:43:55 AM PDT by naturalborn
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To: naturalborn

In the first chapter of Part 3, I pointed out that the modern surveillance state makes Galt’s Gulch impossible unless you locate it off American soil.


5 posted on 08/08/2009 8:44:20 AM PDT by Publius (Conservatives aren't always right. We're just right most of the time.)
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To: naturalborn
If you read the book when it was published, Galt’s Gulch was plausible. Reading it now, the scenario where you take a small group of producers and completely hide yourself where no one in the rest of society can find you is too far fetched.

Maybe it's not so implausible if we look at it from a different angle: Rather than people running off to a hideaway located somewhere else, maybe they could stay put and create a sort of underground economy.

That seems to be what today's criminals do. There's an underground economy all around us now with stores operating as fronts and so on.

23 posted on 08/08/2009 1:41:12 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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