I’m 56 years old. Which means I’m about to endure my fourth cycle of twenty-something year old dudes discovering the weight room and Ayn Rand shit like they’ve just unlocked Enlightenment itself and by god I’m fucking so tired of it. And now they have podcasts.
@Theblueone 54 years old. Honestly feeling this. Though if I'm going to be honest about it, I'm sure I was just as insufferable in my early twenties about different subjects. (Never did go through an Ayn Rand phase... and never will.)
@Soozcat @Theblueone
My exposure to an Ayn Rand adjacent ideology during my late twenties was admittedly via Eric S Raymond's attempts to hitch a bunch of libertarian philosophy onto the Linux and Free Software movement. But he soon lost me with his Geeks With Guns events and global warming conspiracy nutter bullshit.
https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2014/05/1054-eric-s-raymond.html?m=1
#1054: Eric S. Raymond

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