That's quite a big mystery that I'm far from solving. I'm pretty much with Hume that you can't get "ought" from "is". As with the Bible, the Koran, and the Book of Mormon, I couldn't bear the sort of exclusive attention it would take to read Atlas Shrugged, so I listened to it on audio -- all 60+ hours. I made a late discovery that Audible.com lets you speed up their audio, and so towards the end was listening to it at 2x normal speed. The John Galt speech lasts 4 hours in normal time or 2 at 2x speed. He supposedly just appeared with some pirate radio system or hijacked the state's system and proceeded to lecture the world for 4 hours, and the implication is that after this event, everything will be different. The language has a lot in common with those other books I mentioned: lots of "blah, blah, blah, and this is an intolerable abomination".

Anyway, for remedial education, if you are one of these people like me who hasn't read everything, audio can help a lot, and there is a treasure of public domain texts on audio at Librivox.org in case you didn't know. I'm starting to listen to Kant. 2x speed won't work, but I think 1.4x may for me. Sometimes I find slow reading more distracting to the other ongoing activity such as driving than I find fast reading. Audacity software can change the effective speed of MP3 files (without producing a chipmunks like effect).

As usual I've free associated a bit but hope there is something useful in it.