Source Analyzed:

The Objectivist Blueprint: How Ayn Rand Shaped Silicon Valley's Libertarian Ethos

🧠 Memetic Profile: Core Memeplex Structure

Foundational Memes:

• The Entrepreneur as Hero-Creator – A direct port of Roark/Galt into the startup founder archetype.
• Self-Interest as Virtue – Ethical egoism underwrites the pursuit of wealth, scale, and disruption.
• Anti-Regulation = Pro-Freedom – Government is recast as a constraint on productive genius.
• “Going Galt” – Leaving California, leaving institutions, leaving legacy media—real-life enactments of ideological withdrawal.
• Meritocracy as Moral Order – Outcomes are viewed as purely earned, not systemically influenced.

Narrative Skeleton:

• Atlas Shrugged becomes a metaphor machine: wealth = virtue, regulation = looting, creativity = rebellion.
• The Fountainhead supplies emotional identity: the misunderstood visionary, the noble loner, the product as extension of the self.

Mutation in Structure:

• Objectivism becomes secular civic religion in tech: ethics, metaphysics, and aesthetics merge into a code of conduct for product design, management, and public persona.
• Core memes are restructured around technology, not philosophy.

✅ Core Memeplex Summary:

Silicon Valley doesn’t just echo Objectivism—it refracts it through venture capital, code, and media. Rand’s ideology mutates into a techno-capitalist ethos, where disruption becomes sacrament, and creation is proof of moral worth.

📡 Transmission Map: Spread and Cultural Vectors