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“Where equality is enthroned, freedom is extinguished…liberty by its very nature is inegalitarian”

Andrew Ryan is meant to be a parallel of John Galt, and yet he also degrades into a Jim Taggart of sorts.

A self-made man who puts himself first in all things, to the point that he is a parasite to others.

Rand seems almost contradictory in her narrative.

Sex is used as a murky theme that is difficult to ascertain, given the central themes of selfishness.

Galt’s Gulch is pretty, but totally unattainable in the real world. Many selfish actors living in close quarters wouldn’t bring peace and prosperity to all.

The idea that man is more rational than he is irrational, the idea that selfishness and egotism can be moral, the idea that one should only do things with their own self interest in mind, and the idea that abdicating all responsibility to one’s own community to see it fail…

These are all principles that are incorrect, they lead to a variety of contradictions.