Perhaps there may not be just “one” thing to do.
A good military operation like D-Day involves many things Sea, Air, Ground, Amror, etc.
There are three things here.
Business cards.
Manifesto
Websites. If you look at my domain console in my sig. I have a site that acts as just that. Would it not be a good idea for persons with sites to put in a section on Rand and her philosophy. One such is Valkyrie Firearms.
As you can see, the idea is to up the level of sophistication from a quick, pithy statement to a full bore treatment
One of the big problems is a useful definition. The Intellectual Activisit used “The philosophy of Ayn Rand” which was really an ostensive or pointing one and to me is unsatisfactory for the job at hand. If you’re selling something, people want straigh answers not smart talk. I have a d efinition on my website.
As to organized effort. I’ve got no problem but that seems to scare off many O-ists. Instead of “orgaized” how about coordinated
Now, if we can get links to a number of these sites or sections of sites we can put them on a linkpage of an unofficial sort. and print that on the business card.
It would be nice if someone would put some of Rand’s essays up on line for persons to peruse to get the flavor of them.
NOTE: I don’t know how many of you are familiar with STARLOG in its early days. The first editory, Kerry O’Quinn is trying to put together a theatrical version of ANTHEM. I’m also trying to see if I can’t interest him in doing something with Space Patrol. I have a place in my main site where you can watch a few episodes of the old time shows
I personally believe if you go out and try to “sell Oism”, people may perceive it as no different than any other “ism” like catholicism, judiasm, etc. The more an infrastructure that Oism resembles that of god grounded religions, the more there will be an ongoing debate and discussions as to the parallels between Oism and other religions.
Objectively, pardon the use of the word, if one dissects how churches/relgious movements are organized, philosophies promoted, meetings attended, the collective involved in promoting the movement, the more I think some will see a similarity, not to mention that the books of the new and old testament are fictional, where much of the judeochristian philosophies (aside from god) are rooted, is not dissimilar to some of the Oism philosophies drawn from the fictional writings of Rand.
Be open for discussion about it.
The fictional stories in the bibles and bible like writings were put together by “scholars” of the time. Note that there is much good, without the god aspect of god-religion, that people find a way to live their lives. There is a lot of crap to sift through to find good things, but not all the writings of the scholars is bad. Example, in judiaism, it is considered a good thing to donate money (charity), in fact, per capita, the jewish communities around the world are the most generous of any group of individuals. This isn’t done by the majority of people to get in “gods good books”, but a philosophy based on some of the teachings and writings. Extracting the good, being reasonable and rational about how to and what to extract makes good sense.
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