Excellent observations Paul. As you suggest, it is all a sick and ultimately self-defeating ideology based upon highly selective misinterpretations of Smith and Darwin. Imagine how ants and bees (or even higher order species like wolves) would have evolved if each individual pursued it own interest. Likewise humans, without cooperation, we'd have gone extinct ions ago.

Have you seen the new TV ads for the Monopoly Game. It has a evil little girl (probably based on the imaginary cuteness of Wednesday Adams) raising rents and evicting a pregnant woman who turns out to be her mother. Monopoly, the game that ends with one person owning everything, or when players get near violence. It was originally stolen from a follower of Henry George ("great crime"), whose "Landlords Game" was meant as critique of the system (Note: https://medium.com/@daneke/the-landlords-game-the-grand-dispossession-of-america-49513bf9eb4