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Part of the problem is that many businessmen do not resemble John Galt.

I second RationalBiker, as well keep in mind that intellectual conversation is a skill and takes practice. Do you have access to a debating team or other kind of public speaking group locally?

Critical theory is an attempt to understand and criticize the relationship between knowledge and power. "David Hume wrote that Blacks simply could not create a civilized society, this justified slavery and thus is wrong" is something you find in this area of literary critique. Ayn Rand argued that parasites spread religion and other such ideas to mooch off rational people. Similar to a point.