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TheAncientGeek comments on Guarding Against the Postmodernist Failure Mode - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 09 July 2014 06:16:43PM 2 points [-]

Objectivism did and does have plenty of adherents who never met Rand. Personal contact isn't a prerequisite for a personality cult.

Comment author: 9eB1 11 July 2014 12:29:07AM 0 points [-]

It seems you are correct. I had a definition in mind for a cult of personality which was actually much narrower than what it actually means, upon looking it up. Nonetheless, so far you've implied a lot more than you've actually stated, and your arguments about "what is possible" are less interesting to me than arguments about "what is." Frankly, I find argumentation by implication annoying, so I'm tapping out.