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1 year agoI was a huge fan as a teen, I’ve read all the books, and how my guy can’t see the anti-communist randian libertarianism is frankly astonishing. It’s not subtle, and once I started learning actual politics I recognized what the books were about almost immediately. They were a huge part of my teens and early twenties, but they’re exactly as you describe, and super easy to recognize as such.
I had to go through my edgy atheist phase before I wised up. That rule and the sixth one “the only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason” were almost Sam Harris-esque, so naturally I continued to think they were brilliant. Took a few years to go from that to ML, and realizing what those books were was a big step.