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See also: [[Be Yourself]], [["Jump Off a Bridge" Rebuttal]], [[The Man Is Sticking It to the Man]].
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** Michael Shermer wrote the interesting essay [http://www.2think.org/02_2_she.shtml "The Unlikeliest Cult in History"] about this very phenomenon.
** This even pops up among fans of objectivist writers who don't explicitly reference Rand in their works—though the devotion is instead to that writer, not Rand (usually until the writer in question tells them where he got the idea).
** An example would be in the [[Sword of Truth|novels of Terry Goodkind]], where the main character effectively ends up as a benevolent capitalist dictator, the series having explored the weaknesses of all other forms of government. The last chapter of the series features that character ''ordering his followers'', ironically enough, to no longer do the devotion, a ritual that has over time turned the heads of his family into objects of a
* The basic message of the essay ''Self-Reliance'' was "Everyone should be a nonconformist".
* This is used as a [[Logic Bomb]] (among others) in ''[[Discworld/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]'' to combat the [[Literal-Minded]] and orderly Auditors of Reality - "Ignore This Sign, By Order".
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