I'm in such a weird, shitty mood that I'm halfway tempted to write an apologia for Ayn Fucking Rand. I think she was a middle-class Russian kid whose family lost fuckin' everything to the Bolsheviks. Her dad managed to open a pharmacy only to have it stolen. Her family were wiped out in Leningrad before she could get them to the USA. "The State" was not a comforting presence in her life. The people who interpreted Rand definitely had a milder experience with "The State" than she did. Libertarians see the villains of Atlas Shrugged as FDR and LBJ; her worldview was informed by Stalin and Hitler. And I mean... she went from Stalin's Russia to Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood. This would teach you a few things: (1) Trust no one (2) I me mine (3) Run Sammy Run. Now. Give that person a cult.