Forthcoming:  A new motto and meaning for the reverse side of the United States' Great Seal, plus a Journal of Cultural Progress towards Audacious Reason.

Logo: Ratio Audax Coeptum, Novus Ordo Seclorum, MDCCLXXVI

Ratio Audax: Creating the Culture of Audacious Reason.


Do you face some of these problems?

"I'm low on my Vitamin 'B' -- for Beauty."
"My time is precious: I can't spend much of it reading long blogs and boards."
"I cannot read today's newspapers: they hurt my benevolent sense of life."
"I can't figure out what my government is doing."
"I'd love to be more active politically, but how?"
"I absolutely do not have enough great art in my life."
"I don't know how to sort out all the news."
"I'm very worried about the fate of western civilization."


Do you share these social values?

"I enjoy friends from all over the world."
"I would like to read more condensed summaries of news and opinion."
"I am willing to spend ten minutes a week to improve world culture."
"I like to share my humor, art, opinions, and knowledge."
"I want a 50-year marriage."
"It gives me great pleasure to see progress in the world."
"I just like to have fun."
"I would like to leave a great legacy to today's children."


Do you agree with these political principles?

"The separation of church and faith is of utmost importance."
"When Thomas Jefferson said we have the right to pursue happiness, he meant just that. There is no right to happiness itself: happiness is impossible to guarantee."
"Confusion about the meaning of individual rights is causing a great deal of trouble today."


Have you read and loved any of these books?

Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, 1957.
Reality therapy, a new approach to psychiatry, by William Glasser, 1965.
The Rules, by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider, 1995.
And Baby Makes Three: The Six-Step Plan for Preserving Marital Intimacy and Rekindling Romance After Baby Arrives, by John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman, 2007.
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Peikoff, 1991.


Do these statements describe some of your basic principles?

"I like to think about everything, all the time."
 "How we define our words makes a life or death difference."
"Context changes everything."
"Moral integrity is one of my highest values."
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
"There are five basic needs:  food, clothing, shelter, sex, and optimization" (Thomas L. Magnanti).


If you agree with some of these views, perhaps you were a former subscriber to Cantique Connection?

The world is both much better and much worse off than it was in 1990 when I founded Cantique Connection. As I did before, with your help, I plan to help us get more of the good and less of the bad. I am full of ideas! I think we can "reboot" and start another Greatest Generation.


Did you attend this year's Ayn Rand Institute Objectivist Conference?

This summer we celebrated the 50th anniversary of Atlas Shrugged in a special location far away in Colorado: Telluride. We had a record number of attendees: over 500! I held an event for Singles to socialize and had several productive conversations with people regarding my Ratio Audax ideas. I now think I have a good quorum of important values to offer you in a product. However, for now, I am job hunting for a real day job in the software industry, and that takes top priority. If I can release portions of the site in advance, I will try to do so. Please join me in this latest adventure. Check back here at http://www.RatioAudax.com/ or send me an email. (You can find me on HBL or at OCON's.)




Your Editor, Anne Moroney

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