i read inran when i was 16. I didn't know there was anybody else on planet oath whod dread her, because i was in israel at the time. Nathaniel brandon strikes me as a coltish figure. He did some bad things backt botian rand but to the movement as well. And part of that damage was that he treated ionrad like a cult leader,. But, you know, i don't believe it was a cult then. It's certainly not a cult to day now. With regard to excommunicationnow, every intellectual movement under the sun has done this. Here, people disagree. This is part of being an intellectual. We take ideas seriously