| | It's great to see Logan having so much success in his endeavors, which go beyond the Lost Liberty Hotel. I got to see some pilot episodes of a proposed TV show he's working on at TOC-Schenectady. They were passionate, powerful, and (on occasion) hilarious.
I participate in online forums and seminars because I personally enjoy them and find that they help me to chew and integrate Objectivist philosophy into my life. If they also help to spread Objectivism (as I believe SOLO and TOC do quite well), that's just a peripheral benefit.
As for activism, I run a campus club that has already (in one year) converted several college students to Objectivism, as well as significantly improved the views of many others. In addition, I authored a campus column, hosted a radio show, and engaged in various other methods of advocacy. In this time, I have noticed a great deal of lethargy on the part of other Objectivists I have met (or converted), who haven't seemed all that interested in helping to spread the philosophy that has been such a value in their own lives. So I share Phil's sentiment.
But, I'm not sure that the problem stems from too much time being spent hashing out minutiae on online forums. Probably not much more than 5 percent of Objectivists spend time on that minutiae anyway. There has to be some other reason why the other 95 percent don't seem to give a damn.
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