Ayn Rand and her coterie didn’t devolve into a cult. They started out that way. Her writing is pure fetishism, from beginning to end. That it happens to fetishize technical topics and people interested in technical topics should make those of us inclined the same way particularly suspicious.
Libertarians should be viewed with the same suspicion, for the same reasons.
Such eloquence on such a trivial subject!
Ayn Rand and her coterie didn’t devolve into a cult. They started out that way. Her writing is pure fetishism, from beginning to end. That it happens to fetishize technical topics and people interested in technical topics should make those of us inclined the same way particularly suspicious.
Libertarians should be viewed with the same suspicion, for the same reasons.