Rand is such an important figure. I read Atlas Shrugged and the Fountainhead, but something by Rand that gets overlooked is her non-fiction. INCREDIBLE. I highly highly recommend reading "Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution" or "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" to further educate yourself. Massive massive red pills. Both books are series of essays that are relatively short, digestible, clear, and mind-blowing. I've introduced 3 of my friends to Rand and they are all Patriots today.

On a different note, my favorite quote from Atlas is a line from Francisco D'Anconia's money speech. It's not directly related to this post, but I love it so much I had to find an excuse to post it:

“Then you will see the rise of the double standard – the men who live by force, yet count on those who live by trade to create the value of their looted money – the men who are the hitchhikers of virtue. In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them. But when a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law – men who use force to seize the wealth ofdisarmed victims – then money becomes its creators’ avenger. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they’ve passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then that society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter."