Source: The Bulwark
byt Paul Crider
“Many among the Silicon Valley ultra-rich dominating the news think of themselves as heroes out of an Ayn Rand novel. Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen prate on about how we are living in Atlas Shrugged now. Peter Thiel has spoken at the annual gala of the Randian Atlas Society. … Meanwhile, many (though by no means all) devotees of Rand’s writings idolize Musk. It makes sense. Rand — self-professed ‘radical for capitalism’ — glamorized the heroic industrialist who struggled to produce, invent, and achieve against the countervailing resentment of the mediocre masses and big government oppression. Members of the Silicon Valley venture-capital set like to think they are building — literally building — the future, something very much in line with Rand’s romantic vision of human triumph. But a deeper examination reveals these oligarchs resemble Rand’s heroes far less than her villains.” (03/10/25)