we were taught philosophy in 8th grade as an experiment and simultaneously i started reading atlas shrugged. i spent much of that year lecturing people on how gift-giving was immoral (also i gave a girl i had a crush on a gift and totally failed to notice the dissonance)https://twitter.com/qualiaisreal/status/1155252294645977088 …
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it's hard to remember what that experience was like but i think in retrospect most of what i valued about objectivism was that it validated my pursuit of my own desires, as opposed to e.g. doing what my parents wanted
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after several months i snapped out of it, thought "what the fuck just happened to me?" and resolved to not think about philosophy again until i acquired more life experience, which happened around the end of college when i found HPMoR and LW
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