QUOTE(dtobias @ Sun 22nd March 2009, 8:04pm)
I remember back when I had just read Atlas Shrugged and was in a burst of enthusiasm about it, being frustrated at the extreme scarcity of mentions of Rand in the references I consulted in the school and public libraries. For an author whose books sold millions of copies, had spawned a large movement, and were (to my teenage mind) irrefutably true, it was astounding that almost nobody who wrote for the various bound volumes on philosophy and literary criticism in the libraries (the main sources I had to work with in that primitive era when I couldn't just google or wikipedia something) scarcely mentioned Rand at all, and on the rare occasions they did, it was with brief dismissive sneers. Obviously the altruist/collectivists had a pretty powerful conspiracy going.
I don't doubt it for a second. The Altruists probably considered it a Rand-um Act Of Kindness to remove her books from library shelves — and the Collectivists, well, naturally they'll collect
anything.
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