Fiction is the delivery mechanism for a philosophy. The book argues that philosophy logically. The fact that it is delivered as a fictional account is merely

Fiction is the delivery mechanism for a philosophy. The book argues that philosophy logically. The fact that it is delivered as a fictional account is merely a method that makes it less dry and more comprehensible than a straight up non-fiction philosophy book. Fiction allows her to illustrate abstract concepts concretely. Making the comparison to Scientology would be silly, since Scientology is a religion, not a philosophy. By the way, I can assure you the author of this article (and every anti-Rand article I've ever seen from leftist publications) has not read Atlas Shrugged. If you had read it you wouldn't ask the question, because the use of fiction to deliver the philosophy is extremely effective. That and the fact that in the last 50 years so many of the types of events that seemed outrageous at the time have actually occurred in reality.