The Destroyer from Within

 

Ayn Rand turns everybody into a cultist. Unless you’re over 25 or so when you come across her, and your personality and character are already solidly formed, she converts essentially everyone into a type of religioso and cultist. It’s virtually impossible to resist her.

Ayn Rand simply has too much truth and virtue on her side. Too much intelligence and education. Too much speaking and writing skill. On top of which she's immensely, intellectually charismatic and seductive.

Ayn Rand attacks your current belief-system, and promotes her own, both high and low, hard and soft, quickly and slowly, overtly and covertly, directly and indirectly, obviously and subtlety, right away and over time. No matter how long, hard, and well you try to escape her entrapment and seduction, she virtually always gets you. And so, to a lesser or greater degree, you end up a mindless cyborg and pathetic loser cult follower.

Ayn Rand intellectually and personally bullies, hectors, manipulates, tricks, moralizes, and psychologizes. And very soon – so do you. You get turned into a soulless zombie. Some malicious, weird, fanatical jerk. A "second-hander" and "social metaphysician" to adopt her language. Not servilely dependent upon conventional society to determine truth and morality but – even worse – dependent upon her society and her dismal collection of fellow cultists. And compared to conventional folk, the Ayndroids are far more powerful and destructive.

Ayn Rand devastates your relationship with your family, friends, and society – not significantly improves it. She causes you to zealously, hatefully, morally condemn your fellow man – not find fun friends and hot chicks. She makes you "save the world" – not yourself.

And no prominent, current, Objectivist organization – such as The Ayn Rand Institute, The Atlas Society, or The Objectivist Standard – warns you against this terrible evil. Indeed, they silently lead you directly into it. Theirs is a policy of strict intellectual dishonesty and cowardice. When it comes to the seminal truth of Objectivist cultism, their evasions and lies never end.

Objectivism is great as a philosophy. But not as a religion. Ayn Rand is great as an intellectual teacher. But as a cult leader she's the worst ever.