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Re:As calls to ban books intensify, digital librarians offer... by analog31 on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @07:39PM (#29336971)
I think even Rand was aware of its limitation, which is why the book has an essentially magical ending -- the heroine arrives in utopia by accident when her plane crashes there. But having to reveal the actual process of getting there is precisely the failure of utopian ideologies.
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Re:As calls to ban books intensify, digital librarians offer... by oliv__ on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @10:04PM (#29337819)
What? Her landing in "utopia" is not nearly close to the ending, nor is it magical: at all times the heroine has the option to voluntarily join this utopia and she consciously chooses to remain in the "outside world" to fight its demise.

And she doesn't magically crash there, the actual process of her getting there is narrated in what is probably a good 30 pages.

Using an analogy from a false representation of the plot to imply that the author intentionally recognizes flaws with her philosophy is definitely not the most objective review of this book, to put it nicely.

Have you even read the book?

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Re:As calls to ban books intensify, digital librarians offer... by analog31 on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @11:18PM (#29338190)
Admittedly, I read it a long time ago, as a teenager, and it didn't resonate with anything in my own experience. I would certainly defer to your analysis.

Did I imagine the plane crash, or mix it up with some other book?

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