The Ayn Rand Rule

Ayn Rand was an apostle for wickedness.  And yet, I learned quite a bit from Ayn Rand’s writings when I was much younger.  Ayn Rand’s foundational beliefs – atheism, “ethical egoism,” liberalism, laissez-faire capitalism – were wicked.  Any truths described by her were accidental to her foundational wickedness – by her own admission.  Any truth learned from her could have – and should have – been learned from sources which were not foundationally wicked.  To the extent that I “only found” these truths in Ayn Rand is to some extent to admit my own immaturity, ignorance, ill-preparedness, and unvirtuousness.  In other words, the fact that I went looking for an unknown-to-me truth in a cesspool of wickedness just shows I was the last person in the world who should have been trusted to go straining out truths in a cesspool of wickedness.

Game and the alt-right – among a whole host of other sorts of things – are foundationally wicked.  But their frank and forthright rhetoric in the key of Masculine is seductive to certain men.  Seductive is exactly the right word.  And thus, The Ayn Rand rule: if one needs to seek out the wicked in order to discover truth, then one has no business seeking out the wicked.

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  1. The denunciation of one’s past masters is unseemly even when deserved, like the denunciation of imperfect parents.

    Your emphasis here is all on your own wickedness. Focus instead on God, who used His (unwitting) servant Ayn Rand to teach you some truths in the midst of your wickedness, and then led you to a better state where these truths might yield fruit.

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