"The story of Atlas Shrugged demonstrates that the basic conflict of our age is not merely political or economic, but moral and philosophical -- that the dominant philosophy of our age is a virulent revolt against reason -- that the so-called redistribution of wealth is only a superficial manifestation of the mysticism-altruism-collectivism axis -- that the real nature and deepest, ultimate meaning of that axis is anti-man, anti-mind, and anti-life." -- Ayn Rand (1960s) [R. Crumb 1985 cartoon of a man throwing rotten eggs at a poster of Ayn Rand, "You're fulla shit! Take that ya witch!"]
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