The only Ayn Rand novel that I found reasonable and readable was Anthem, which could serve as a reasonable sequel to Orwell's 1984. Assertion of Self is the only possible defeat of a political order that subordinates all human desire to some Moloch of a social order. (I would have a more radical solution to the dystopia of 1984: replacement of the corrupt language so that people could think and feel again. But that is another story. A revival of reconstructed "Vulgar Latin" would be a good choice.
Maybe Taramarie would suggest Maori.
...Nobody is able to give a 100-page filibuster of quasi-philosophical drivel, as one of Rand's characters does. That defies the principle of realism necessary in good fiction.
Maybe Taramarie would suggest Maori.
...Nobody is able to give a 100-page filibuster of quasi-philosophical drivel, as one of Rand's characters does. That defies the principle of realism necessary in good fiction.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.