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Hackers tend to gravitate away from labels like objectivism. Once one subscribes to a label, it invites toeing the party line and switching off the brain. Hackers are even nervous, it seems, about accepting the label "hacker".

Rand, like Marx presented a cartoonish, plastic version of reality that seems compelling at first but when considered carefully fails the test of being practical (or possible) to implement. After you get some distance you start to see the bits of reality that have been fictionalized and over-emphasized. Like using a parametric EQ on your favorite song to learn the bass line.

Hackers will generally accept people of any political makeup so long as their reasoning is clear and systematic and their initial assumptions are reasonable. They won't accept beliefs based on dogma, anecdotes, or superstition. This is why the hacker community tends to be so diverse yet seems to have so much cohesion. (So much, in fact, that the near total lack of venomous idealogical bickering might fool the uninitiated into thinking everyone must just believe the same as them.)