"Childish notion of freedom?"
When you title something "Most dangerous Book" I must ask, dangerous to what? Human Life? The environment? Freedom to choose how you want to live or die? At least Atlas Shrugged comes from the perspective that Man, when left unmolested and unprogrammed or coerced, will strive for sustainable survival instead on "sucking on the tit of a benovelent government."
You want to discuss some really dangerous books, where folks are encouraged to give their lives over to a deity", as tallied in "millions murdered while under the influence of", maybe start with Mein Kampf, or Mao's little red book. Let's add the Bible, the Koran or any other religious tome from the three Abrahamic religions, and the list goes on back to the beginning of recorded time.
Your final summation of Atlas Shrugged is "Clearly, despite Rand’s claims to unobscured reason, Atlas Shrugged is an exercise in pure myth, and one wonders how long her voice will continue to persuade the “deplorable masses” that her fictions are truth."
So you have descend into name calling? That's juvenile. Pure Myth? So is everything you will ever read, that is not an operations manual for an appliance, and even those are partially myths as well. But pure Myth would also imply that the entire experiment that brought USA in being is as phony as say maybe the Magna Carta?
Yes you are correct to observe the manipulations of Atlas Shrugged, but to actively support all forms of Globalist Coercion for the "good" of the collective, even in the form of environmentalism, is to deny the reality of the NWO, The Monarchy and the Global Mob that has corrupted every level of human existence since the beginning of recorded time all in the name of the good of all, and that ain't woke either.
IMHO. Just saying.
