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Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. - Theodor Adorno

Chris tries to land this Ayn Rand plane in an objectively satisfying manner.

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*Search Categories*

Anthropological; Common interest / Fandom

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*Topic Spoiler*

Objectivism & Ayn Rand

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*Further Reading*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand_Institute

https://ari.aynrand.org/

https://courses.aynrand.org/campus-courses/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ayn-Rand

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ayn-Rand/The-Collective-and-the-Nathaniel-Branden-Institute

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ayn-rand/

http://aynrandlexicon.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Objectivism

https://www.atlassociety.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atlas_Society

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2020-04-18/ty-article-magazine/.premium/i-visited-the-secret-lair-of-the-ayn-rand-cult/0000017f-ef06-ddba-a37f-ef6e2c740000

https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/the-unlikeliest-cult-in-history/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3kyxvv/nxivm-jordan-peterson-and-the-reincarnation-of-ayn-rands-cult

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ayn_Rand_Cult

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/primate-diaries/ayn-rand-on-human-nature/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Branden

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaron_Brook

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Peikoff

https://www.conservapedia.com/Objectivism

http://michaelprescott.freeservers.com/romancing-the-stone-cold.html

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0595267335/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ominous_Parallels

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

https://www.atlassociety.org/post/frank-lloyd-wright-and-ayn-rand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XysDgbp9uo4

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S5E4 - The Collective's Architect (Ayn Rand's life)

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Who is Ayn Rand?

Chris and Kayla try to answer this ocean of a question, exploring the many rivers and tributaries that feed it.

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*Search Categories*

Anthropological; Common interest / Fandom

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*Topic Spoiler*

Objectivism & Ayn Rand

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*Further Reading*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand_Institute

https://ari.aynrand.org/

https://courses.aynrand.org/campus-courses/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ayn-Rand

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ayn-Rand/The-Collective-and-the-Nathaniel-Branden-Institute

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ayn-rand/

http://aynrandlexicon.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Objectivism

https://www.atlassociety.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atlas_Society

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2020-04-18/ty-article-magazine/.premium/i-visited-the-secret-lair-of-the-ayn-rand-cult/0000017f-ef06-ddba-a37f-ef6e2c740000

https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/the-unlikeliest-cult-in-history/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3kyxvv/nxivm-jordan-peterson-and-the-reincarnation-of-ayn-rands-cult

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ayn_Rand_Cult

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/primate-diaries/ayn-rand-on-human-nature/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Branden

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaron_Brook

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Peikoff

https://www.conservapedia.com/Objectivism

http://michaelprescott.freeservers.com/romancing-the-stone-cold.html

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0595267335/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ominous_Parallels

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

https://www.atlassociety.org/post/frank-lloyd-wright-and-ayn-rand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XysDgbp9uo4

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S5E6 - The Hams & Their Eggs (the LA Breakfast Club)

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FVNEM? FVNEX?

Kayla and Chris get up at the crack of dawn to try and solve a cryptogram from 1925.

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The Los Angeles Breakfast Club

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*Further Reading*

https://twitter.com/labreakfastclub

https://www.labreakfastclub.com/

https://www.latimes.com/california/breakfast-club-los-angeles-latt-123

https://www.labreakfastclub.com/podcast

https://www.facebook.com/LABreakfastClub/

https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2022-11-03/los-angeles-breakfast-club-home

https://www.kcet.org/food-living/the-strangest-club-in-los-angeles-the-l-a-breakfast-club

https://friendsofgriffithpark.org/the-los-angeles-breakfast-club/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/los-angeles-breakfast-club

https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a7175/los-angeles-breakfast-club/

https://ladailymirror.com/2015/06/01/mary-mallory-hollywood-heights-los-angeles-breakfast-club-dines-on-history/

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Cult or Just Weird - S5E5 - The Collective's Legacy (Objectivism's reception & effects)

Transcript

Kayla00:00:00.640

Criminals should be able to commit crimes because they're hot.

Chris00:00:03.045

A criminal that was relatively famous at the time, since, you know, Americans love good trial. So this is like a national news thing briefly here in the late 1920s. And the name of this guy was William Hickman.

Kayla00:00:13.349

I don't know him.

Chris00:00:14.445

Do you want