re: #12 Ming

Yes, in a lot of ways she’s just an inverse Marxist. A lot of her thinking contains the same absolutism and the same twinning of the economic and moral that Marxist-Lenninism did.

As for being inspired— well, I think Atlas Shrugged is, in the end, an absolutely terrible book. As I said, the Fountainhead actually has some nuance, but Atlas Shrugged, once viewed critically, disintegrates into a hectoring, humorless, arrogant, murderous polemic.