Atlas shrugs, Atlas starves. The End. The most fatal flaw in Ayn Rand's book.

[stevenleser]

69. You are the one who should let this drop.There is a reason the military teaches survival techniques

to pilots in case they are downed behind enemy lines and a fair portion of that has nothing to do with evading the enemy, but getting enough food to eat, etc. Making the assumption that people are going to figure these things out on their own is a BIG and I mean B-I-G assumption.

Assumption #1 - These folks would even know what kinds of things they need to bring with them.

Assumption #2 - These folks would know how to properly use the things they brought

Assumption #3 - These folks would know how to (and have the proper tools and resources to) repair the things that wore out or broke or manufacture new ones (yeah right).

AND we are only talking about food. Atlas Shrugged nicely glosses over how in hades in the first place that all of the 'strikers' buildings got built in Galt's Gulch. Fine, we will ignore that for now, that still leaves clothing. I've traveled a fair amount in my life. I'm usually good at researching the proper clothes to take, it is by no means easy to figure that all out either.

Again you have to remember that this place is supposed to be a secret. All of these multimillionaire captains of industry would have to somehow outfit themselves with all of this survivor gear without raising suspicion and transport that survivor gear to the proper place. That is ANOTHER issue that is glossed over. How are you going to get all of the building, farming, hunting, clothing, etc., materials to an uninhabited part of Colorado without raising any eyebrows or any of the truckers remembering that, hey, the CEO of Rearden metals and the judge from wherever are moving all of this stuff to Colorado.

I dont think you are thinking this through as to all of the issues and obstacles. Its not grasping at straws so much as thinking it through to all the fine details. The more details you think about, the more ridiculous this seems.