More replies than I was expecting! One by one: Brant Gaede: From what I could tell, this forum gets <10 posts daily. That's pretty dead ("only mostly dead", still revivable by Miracle Max?) compared to the other places I go (e.g. Reddit, though not /r/Objectivism, which is full of loonies). Michael Stuart Kelly: Usually when it comes to web communities, I read far more than I post, and I try to make friends on an individual basis that I can stay in touch with on my own. And actually, posting in a small community often results in the post getting far more attention than I am comfortable with, rather than being a drop in the bucket. Selene: I have no idea what you mean. Kyle Jacob Biodrowski: Thanks for the welcome. I will try not to be a "hit and run" poster. GaltGulch: Thank you for your perspective. I have attended events, conferences and seminars from many of the student freedom organizations, including SFL, FEE, IHS and ISI, and I am subscribed to lots of E-mail newsletters from these organizations. The people I interacted with and the things I read do not give me hope. The vast majority of libertarian young people today have little to no interest in philosophy and are subjectivists and/or collectivists, if you don't mind my painting with a broad brush. The holdouts are die-hard Machiavellian or Nietzschean pragmatists and progress-hating religious conservatives. I don't think you need to be an Objectivist (nor atheist, though I am) to be a "good libertarian" but an attitude of individualism, an uncompromising rationality, a seriousness about ideas and many more things are necessary, and most of the people I have met have perhaps one of those qualities at best. Lest I appear to be building a temple to myself here, I would call myself far from uncompromising and often not serious enough. But I am not heartened by the potential of a youth movement that does not even attempt to take anything seriously.