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THE MEN OF THE MIND and VALUE AND VIRTUE Ninth section of an ongoing project to explore Galt's Speech from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand using images and video from current events. NOTE: These videos do not purport to be definitive or authoritative. Ayn Rand is not responsible for any unintentional misrepresentations created by my editing. If these videos interest you, please visit the Ayn Rand Institute (www.AynRand.com)for more. Text by Ayn Rand Read by Christopher Hurt Edited for YouTube by XCowboy2 Music by John Williams. For the full novel read unabridged, visit BlackstoneAudio.com An XCowboy2 Production Ed. note: Very happy with this one. It was a VERY hard job because there's just no let up- 7 minutes straight of it are individual shots- scads of different video sources and I probably watch and reject ten for every one I use. As a result this one took twice as long as usual- fortunately my computer crashed only a few times. All that said- this one was my favorite to work on so far. Technically, it's my best yet- image quality is high and I'm proud of how it flows. "Value and Virtue" is sort of a companion piece to Part Six: "The Standard of Morality", appropriately. Same music and a similar ending. Notice that in Parts 5-9 the images are moving slowly forward in time from the destruction of the dinosaurs to primates to cavemen to ancient man to ancient greece etc. I'm deliberately trying to do a panorama of human history. Part Ten: "Happiness" and "The Trader Principle" are next- I'm hoping for delivery this weekend as I did half of Part Ten already before I decided the "The Men of the Mind" belonged here. Enjoy! DISCLAIMER: The warriors are intended to be understood as Athenian not Spartan. My mistake. It's a poetic metaphor and not an endorsement of any kind of warrior mentality. I chose an assertive set of 'virtue' images precisely because Galt is at war with the looters. But I don't want to excuse or romanticize the Spartans. K? Objectivist Objectivism Libertarian Capitalist Reason Egoism Individualism Atheism Religion Politics Philosophy