“In 1977, I bought my first Rush album,” writes Matt Kibbe. “The
title of the disc was 2112, and the foldout jacket had a
very cool and ominous red star on the cover.” Kibbe quickly became
obsessed with Rush and the album, a song cycle that tells the story
of a futuristic and tyrannical society where individual choice and
initiative have been replaced by the top-down control of an
autocratic regime. From the album’s liner notes, Kibbe was turned
on to Ayn Rand and eventually other liberty-minded thinkers.
In this adapted excerpt from his latest book, Don’t Hurt
People and Don’t Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto,
Kibbe traces his evoution from an obsessive 13-year-old Rush fan to
a grown-up still fighting for freedom. Folks have told both Rush
members and Kibbe that believing in Ayn Rand’s ideas is childish.
But “I don’t want to ‘grow up,’ if growing up means abandoning the
principle that individuals matter, that you shouldn’t hurt people
or take their stuff,” Kibbe writes.
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