Rick must have been the type of 20 year old who said he liked Ayn Rand because he saw people who thought they were smart acting like assholes carrying around Atlas Shrugged and thought, "there's a guy who thinks he's better than everyone else and is reading such a thick book! Now that's what an intellectual looks like."
Rand makes mediocre people act like they're geniuses without anything but their egos to back it up, of course Piggy fell for it. He's her perfect man, an unmatchable architect of his own failure, this thread a monument to the accomplishments of pigheaded determination.
I was a Libertarian before getting to know Libertarians. They obsess over Rand and Milton Friedman until you realize that the whole underpinnings of their intellectual arguments were two Jewish authors telling you that people are cattle and it doesn't matter if they die so long as you, the chosen ones, come out on top because you're the ones who really make the system run and they're disposable.
