Sneak preview! "John Galt Speaking" FINAL SERIES #1

[Brownbagit1]

Great argument. If you don't believe in "objectivism"(ha) then you hate knowledge. That's why people support her. She told them they'd be stupid if they didnt. Her argument is airtight a's Christianity.

[pitbull103]

Well done.

"Listen to Mr. Obama's report on the world crisis." Coming soon.

[cocky3001]

Thank you!

[xcorpusNYX]

Goddamnit I love all you Ayn Rand junkies!!

Lets all get together and start our own Atlantis..

[doughtymqan]

@xcorpusNYX check out mises.org. Serious economics, ethics etc. The "Austrian school " of economics.

[Spiritplumber]

Good job from a non-objectivist who's sick of being ripped off. :)

[ProAequitas]

Well done.

[ProAequitas]

This is brilliant, s

[Tribefull]

This will be wonderful. Can't wait for the re-release.

[XCowboy2]

Thanks! Will have a release date soon. I'm doing a lot of work- keeping it under wraps a bit- I want to be able to release each episode on a set regular date- hopefully 1 a week. To do that, though, I have to finish most of them in advance. It will be worth the wait!

[Kurtyoungblood]

Bless You, in the best sense of the term.

[YOURGOD78]

I can't wait!

[youngerthan45]

Thank You So much Cowboy! I also would love to learn how to put them all on one dvd and play them here a at home on TV (if OK with you?)for friends, acquaintances and students and anyone with the the true "Will to Understand"!

[XCowboy2]

The complete version will be available when the series is finished

[youngerthan45]

Thanks! Your Dedication to Objectivism is rare and great to see! Can anyone point me in the correct direction to learn how to get a Video off youtube and onto DVD. With permission of course.

[XCowboy2]

thanks! google "youtube download" and you'll find apps for your computer setup. I use Firefox w/a plug-in.

I'm dedicated to my values- not to Objectivism per se. Objectivism is the best available framework for achieving my values- a means to an end: a society of more rational, productive people who work with me when they agree and stay out of my way when they don't. The video work helps me to understand the philosophy better.

Always be dedicated to life- not to an abstract philosophy. :-)

[XCowboy2]

I mean, Objectivism is a value, but not above or beyond that which it serves which is life. :-)

[3stringovation]

Excellent work, Cowboy. I am very much looking forward to version 2.0.

[AmeriKidz]

This is wonderful Cowboy! Q: How can I get a complete version or somehow convert all of the parts into one? Thank you so much for doing this. Great job!

[XCowboy2]

The complete version will be available when the series is finished

[Punchey]

Completely and totally awesome.

[campians]

Don't forget to upload a complete no-pause file of the speech. That would completely ROCK!

[grantsinmypants2]

After I had digested all of the new visual material, I had just thought to myself "damn, he took out that beautiful vocal music which leads it off" - and then bam! There it was! Just in a slightly different, but appropriate, place.

Aiming for a much wider audience, I see. : )

[XCowboy2]

That's a fragment from my favorite choral piece- "Peter Quince at the Clavier" by Dominick Argento. So many modern composers give up on saying something original that is also beautiful- Argento is the 20th century's Richard Halley- almost unknown and completely unique. Argento is to me what Halley was to Dagny. I highly encourage everyone to seek him out. :-)

[bigddog11]

You are doing an awsome job!!!

THANK YOU!!!!

[Egoist1957]

It's...beautiful...thank you, thank you, thank you. I love the use of the train collision report and the other news stories in the beginning. This goes beyond well done. I think it'll wind up being being better than the movie.

[jordanowen42]

This video series inspired me to start reading Atlas Shrugged again. I was on about page 100 when I stopped a few months ago. I'm now on page 666 (he he he) of 1078 and am absolutely loving it. I cringe to imagine the chop shop they're going to have to put John Galt's speech through to make it short enough for the movie.

[XCowboy2]

It was my imagining how the movie would / could handle the speech that got me interested in doing this project. I had actually written to the producers asking for an opportunity to be a part of the movie project in any capacity- they never wrote back. I started this project when I heard the screenwriter say in an interview that there would be NO speech in the film because it was undramatic. I disgree obviously and I think I'm showing otherwise.

[jordanowen42]

NO SPEECH!?!?!!??!? That's insane!  Its the best part of the book! I mean, so what if it becomes a 6 hour movie like Braveheart? I just can't believe that the guy who wrote the script is the same guy who did House of Sand and Fog- the most depressing movie of the decade. THAT GUY is going to make me feel proud of the potential of the human mind?

[Nickstradamus]

anybody who thinks the speech is undramatic is not qualified to go anywhere near that movie. that's like the screenwriter of king kong saying, "yeah, i felt the giant ape thing was kinda silly so i left it out."

[UzbekUkuleleist]

Nice redo of the intro.

I, too, can hardly wait for the rest of the series. :)

[zombiechaddy]

Nice! I have a few hundred liberal friends on MySpace who don't know jack about Atlas Shrugged. I can't wait to show your work to them so they may be able appreciate Capitalism and put things into perspective.

[GamblerJustice]

Awesome - I can't wait!

[Beethovens7th]

I love this series. Can't wait for the new edit, and I've got to make my oath video too!

[elliotcheely]

well done. that gave me chills.

[legendre007]

ASTONISHING! :-O

I'm really impressed by the new effects. :-)

Where did you get the news reporter-sounding line about Mr. Thomspon giving a televised address?

Galt's interruption of the TV program still reminds me of the opening of *Outer Limits*. :-)

[XCowboy2]

I took that sentence from Edward Hermann's abridged reading of Atlas- ran the audio through a high-pass filter so it sounded like a small radio speaker.

My own private joke- I chose an announcer saying "President of the United States" with a distinct German accent- anybody notice?

[advancethinking]

Nice work, again. Is that because German philosophy is completely anti-objectivism?

[XCowboy2]

Nah- just cause it added a vague whiff of totalitarianism- maybe even subconsciously. I entertain myself with the small things- for example, the radio talks about a train collision, a bridge collapse and a nationalization scheme- all recent real-life headlines that are identical to key plot points in the novel. I don't have to do all these little things, but it makes it that much richer I think and is worth the headaches it takes to find and integrate them.

[pressureroller]

Kudos

[Sarrisan98]

I got goose-bumps imagining the final product...

Keep up the excellent work!

[alexebling]

Can't wait!!

[Rorshak1313]

Can't wait to see the finished version.

[RobertPFreeman]

Looks great!