I think in seriousness if a “cult” is big enough (i.e. millions), it must include seemingly normal people. There are different degrees of cult devotees. In Rand’s case, there are the full-on-Kool-Aid-literalists who think the world ends when they die*, and there are people who just think the Golden Rule is for saps who don’t know how to leverage their advantage. Paul and Greenspan are toward the latter end. Their thinking is infused with her philosophy, but they probably would still be standing in a Jonestown scenario. They believe as much as benefits them at the time, which I guess is sort of meta-objectivist.

* Yes I realize there’s a symbolic philosophical thing going on here, but it’s still effed up.