• i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    When the completed manuscript exceeded 600,000 words, Cerf asked Rand to make cuts, but backed off when she compared the idea to cutting the Bible.

    Wow, I didn’t know this author, and it seems I wasn’t missing much.

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      1 year ago

      Her writing is simplistic, but conservatives and libertarians have pushed her as an “intellectual” because it gives them a well-known writer that supports their trash values. She was strongly against the welfare state and altruism, yet she herself received social security, so she was a bit of a hypocrite as well.