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When I was in high school I was a debater. I was serious about it too - I spent my weekends cramped up in high school classrooms across the country from my own school arguing the merits of the US foreign policy to Russia, renewable energy, and secondary school achievment. I used to spend my summers in the basement of libraries at major universities doing work for “debate camp”. I picked my undergraduate university based on being recruited by the debate team. It was pretty serious. I first read Foucault, Gramsci, and de Beauvoir because of the debate team.

One ideology I encountered in debate was Objectivism. Objectivism seems to be a pretty easy philosophical system for white, affluent, argumentative teens to grab onto. For this reason, the objectivist society actively recruits high school debaters to brainwash with their Randian message of greed. I never thought of it as something that someone would hang onto once they became an adult nor of something that could get you laid.

I was wrong.