The Galt and the Lamers 0
Ed Kilgore explores the appeal of Ayn Rand to teenage boys.
I suspect he is over-thinking this.
The appeal is simpler: glorifying selfishness as the ultimate value is quite enough to attract this demographic.
Fortunately, most teenage boys grow up and grow out of glorifying selfishness. Unfortunately, too many of the ones that don’t grow out of it do make it onto Republican tickets.
Speaking of objectification, I recall hearing a biographer of Ayn Rand intervideo on the talking box (no, I can’t remember who–it was two years ago). She said that, when she was in college, she learned early that boys who were wrapped up in Ayn Rand’s theories were not good dates.
