The air is 1957. Good old Dyke is in the White House. The Frisbee is launched and quickly becomes a sensation on college campuses around the United States. American Bandstand debuts on ABC, Elvis Presley buys Graceland, and our rivals in the Soviet Union are the first to space with the launch of Sputnik. In October, the world would also be introduced to one of the most influential

books of the century, Atlas shrugged by novelist Ein Rand. American society and politics would never be the same.

The two most surprising things about Ein Rand's death of heart failure in 1982 is, one, she had a heart,

and two, that we're still fucking talking about her.

In the event you're not familiar with Einrand, and bless your heart if you're not,

she was a mid-20th century novelist most famous for writing the fountainhead and Atlas shrugged.

The protagonists of her novels were fiercely independent and self-righteous assholes,

whose perseverance and ingenuity rose above the feckless bureaucrats and demonstrated the strength of American character.

In her prime, this tiny little chain-smoking gnome had her 15 minutes of fame and then some,

by inspiring a generation of young people yearning to break the establishment bonds. A bunch of

mediocre white dudes would punch above their weight for decades, with tattered copies of Atlas shrugged,

sticking out of their back pockets, decrying the establishment, and following Rand as a cult-like

head of a movement that she termed objectivism. Instead of being relegated to the dustbin of history,

Einrand and her merry band of loser sycophants refused to shut the fuck up.

So why should we give a shit?

Why dedicate an entire episode to this arrogant little shit?

Let's find out as we unfuck objectivism. Oh, my friends, we are fucked.

Deliciously, unreservedly, catastrophically fucked, and not the good kind. We'll traverse this

audio journey together to upend conventional wisdom, blow up narratives on the left, right,

and middle, and use magical devices like facts, logic, and reason to explain how exactly we arrived in

Bizarro America, the Fun House Mirror version of what was originally intended.

My morality is based on man's life as a standard of value. And since man's mind is his basic means of survival, I hold that if man wants to live

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