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I feel like I'm witnessing something that Adam Curtis would cover in the last part of The Century of Self, in real time.





There was always an underlying Randian impulse to the EA crowd - as if we could solve any issue if we just get the right minds onto tackling the problem. The black-and-white thinking, group think, hero worship and charicaturist literature are all there.

I always wondered is it her direct influence, or is it just that those characteristics naturally "go together".



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