[lbo-talk] Randian Personal Ads

[James Heartfield]

I spent a curious weekend at a conference about a year or so ago organised 
by the American Dream Coalition, who were most of them, though they did not 
shout about it, Ayn Rand enthusiasts. I found them mostly quite personable, 
keen to drink and smoke, and make off-colour jokes. Confirming some of the 
thoughts here, it was quite like being at a Trotskist group's annual 
conference - you could see the layers of recruitment from the ages and 
experiences of the delegates, and the pecking order among them, too. There 
were some nerdy guys whose mastery of quadratic equations seemed to excuse 
them from brushing their teeth, but most were quite likeable people - if 
somewhat fixated on the supposed evils of public transport.