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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com236WHO IS JOHN GALT? 1957–1968separately with Peikoff for “what turned out to be an excellent, exciting,open-ended, philosophical discussion.” “The topic I most clearlyremember,” he said, “was phenomenalism—objects are really just categoriesof sense data.” The group was then told that for their next meetingthey would meet with Rand and Nathan. Seeing this as a promotionbased on their enthusiasm and expertise, the students were shockedwhen at the meeting, Nathan “began a long harangue about how grotesqueit was for people to claim to have read Rand’s works and still raisethe sorts of philosophical [questions] Peikoff had reported to them.This went on for quite a while and we were all thoroughly abused.” 52 Itwas a sudden reversal of fortune for the class, which did not understandNathan’s characterization of their questions as villainy.The conformity engendered by NBI stretched beyond the classroom.Objectivism was a comprehensive philosophy, and Objectivists stroveto apply the principles they learned at NBI to daily life. Rand’s cast ofmind saw all of reality as integrated by a few fundamental principles.Therefore adoption of these principles would radiate out infinitely intoevery aspect of a person’s life. Following her reasoning, it became possibleto gauge the validity of an Objectivist’s commitment by the smallestdetails of his or her personal life and preferences. One NBI studentremembered, “There was more than just a right kind of politics and aright kind of moral code. There was also a right kind of music, a rightkind of art, a right kind of interior design, a right kind of dancing.There were wrong books which we could not buy, and right ones whichwe should. . . . And on everything, absolutely everything, one was constantlybeing judged, just as one was expected to be judging everythingaround him. . . . It was a perfect breeding ground for insecurity, fear, andparanoia.” 53Striving to become good Objectivists, Rand’s followers tried to conformto her every dictate, even those that were little more than personalpreferences. Rand harbored a dislike of facial hair, and accordingly herfollowers were all clean shaven. Libertine in her celebration of sex outsidemarriage, she described homosexuality as a disgusting aberration.The playwright Sky Gilbert, once an enthusiastic Objectivist, remembered,“As a young, self-hating gay man, I welcomed Rand’s Puritanism.I imagined I could argue myself out of homosexuality. I labored overendless journal passages, arguing the advantages and disadvantages