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Re:Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence by sireat on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @06:25AM (#12642762)
The Dr. Ferris talk to Mr. Reardon is one of those quotes that rings so true when you read Rand's work for the first time as a teenager.

Anecdotally I too had this "They Live" sunglasses moment.

You are reading Atlas Shrugged and you think this book is the Truth this is IT. Those other silly teenagers getting into religion or socialism or drugs or music they are so deluded.

https://xkcd.com/610/

This is why the John Rogers quip was particularly apt here.

Again the Rand quote is a good/truthful axiom/premise. The problem comes when someone impressionable treats the whole book as the bible.

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Re:Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence by dEnigma on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @02:41PM (#12646563)
I personally have no problem with the John Rogers quote as a response to my comment since I don't think the poster meant to attack me as a person (at least I hope so :) ). After all it's not like I made some broad statement endorsing Ayn Rand.

Funnily enough the xkcd-comic you linked really made an impression on me when it was first posted, since at the time I was having that exact thought almost every day. XKCD showed me how foolish that was and I was and am really thankful for that. (Even though my false sense of superiority was pretty comforting)

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