Pilnmēness nogurdinātie - Training-wheels philosophy

[..] when you go to college, you can take classes on economic theory, philosophy of ethics, the rise of capitalism in the industrial age, Jungian psychology, and a whole bunch of other subjects and actually grapple with these ideas at a higher level. You can read Nietszche, Sartre, Hegel, and all sorts of other fun stuff from which Rand was stealing.

Or.....not. You can never go to college, never reach for higher understanding, never sort through the ideas and figure out which parts make sense and which parts are underdeveloped.

If you do the latter -- never advancing past a simplistic structure of thought, which is really just a belief system -- then you are an Objectivist. A Randian. Somebody who keeps on referencing John Galt.

In other words, you're an adult who still rides a bike with training wheels.