arrakeen_urbanite on Nostr: It was written as a “philosophical” polemic in the fifties or sixties. I’m ...

It was written as a “philosophical” polemic in the fifties or sixties. I’m pretty sure Ayn Rand just wanted a device that seemed techno-miraculous for the bad lefty government types to attempt to control/prevent. It sounds like the movie pretty accurately reflected the book if that was your impression.