I just had one of those perfect conversations. We’ve all had them – probably not often enough.
I discovered a person I know in one non-political context is a raving libertarian – she didn’t know it because she hates and avoids politics. And we kept talking, so I showed her Hank Rearden’s trial scene on the movie site. She was bouncing in her chair, saying “Wait! He had to sell it to people who couldn’t even use it and couldn’t sell it to the people who needed its specific properties? That’s just dumb!!” and when it was over, she wanted to know what happened next. I had spoken with her about the idea of shrugging before, so I alluded to it, and she saw – I SAW HER SEE – the possibilities, and pitfalls, and the terror and the ecstasy.
And when she left, I sat down and listened to the John Galt Theme from ASI and heard a voice say, inside my head, “we never had to take any of it seriously, did we?”
- pure and perfect, like it should be -