I was much influenced by Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, by the Baghavad Gita, and Stoicism in general. The common thread I find is a reverence for human spir

I was much influenced by Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, by the Baghavad Gita, and Stoicism in general. The common thread I find is a reverence for human spirit, the exhortation to think for yourself, and to do what you think is right without attachment to the outcome. But Rand is skewed in her reading of human nature. I think her view of human nature was much colored by Russian culture and history. There’s a lot more John Galt inside of each of us than she seems to think, which is why Communism has not taken over the world as it did in Atlas Shrugged. Except lately, the social media economy seems to be shaping up to reflect her worst fears. Especially now with AI— which is a system for looting that produces looted slop.