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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.

[greener_grass]

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.

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