Aug 31, 2008  A Study Group for Intellectual Activists  Would
you like to improve the world in which you live? The four-week
"Cultural Movements: Creating Change" study group (CMCCSG) might
be the right place for you to start. Within a few weeks, the
CMCCSG will begin in SGO at:  Every SGO study group is focused
on a particular text, but as an experiment the "text" here
consists of videos of the three lectures Yaron Brook and Onkar
Ghate presented at the 2008 Objectivist Conference (OCON).  The
CMCC lectures examine three 20th Century movements that were at
least partly successful: free-market economics,
environmentalism, and religious fundamentalism. (For the nature
of a "movement," see the July 5 and July 14, 2008 posts.) The
two speakers then draw from what they learned about those
movements to suggest techniques for the Objectivist movement.
CMCCSG is a very short-term study group for anyone who wants to
improve our world in the decades ahead. For long-term students
of history, an added benefit of studyi