Save the Date! Monthly Social Feb. 28th

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Please join us on Thursday, February 28th at 7:00 pm for an evening of relaxed, unstructured conversation with fellow Objectivists. We will be meeting at Fountainhead on the corner of Damen and Montrose in the Ravenswood neighborhood.

For those who have never been there, they have a full service restaurant and a bar with an extensive beer list. Street parking is available, and it is only a 3-minute walk from the Montrose Brown Line station.

If there is a good turnout, we intend to do it again on the first Thursday of every month, so we hope to see you there.

English Grammar Revolution: A Documentary

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Before there will be a political revolution, there must be a moral revolution. Before there will be a moral revolution, there must be serious public discussion about very abstract ideas. Before that can happen, there must be a public capable of abstract thought, but the  government schools are turning out legions of future voters who are not equipped for the task.

In their forthcoming documentary, Elizabeth and David O’Brien propose that part of the solution to the abysmal failure of the U.S. education system will be an English Grammar Revolution. As Ayn Rand put the issue, “The primary purpose of concepts and of language is to provide man with a system of cognitive classification and organization, which enables him to acquire knowledge on an unlimited scale; this means: to keep order in man’s mind and enable him to think” (The Ayn Rand Lexicon, ‘The Cognitive Role of Concepts’, http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/language.html).”

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