The Fountainhead was my first run-in with cultural Marxism, in Jr H.S. And it immediately triggered my innate conservatism. Saw film then read book. When the bureacrat placed those Greek columns in fron of Roark’s Wright-esque building design, and Roark REFUSED the commission, although he was dead broke, I was sold.
Any of Rand's inconsistencies were in her personal life and affected only her and the few in her personal social group.
She was true to the Civilization and Society.