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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
True, but I would point out that while Roddenbery did infuse Trek with his philosophical ideas, he never meant, I think, the series to be considered a serious philosophical work. Rand very much meant her novels and the work she did afterwards to be taken as serious philosophy.
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And that's part of the problem. Rand was indeed attempting to be a serious philosopher, but it's difficult to do that and write good fiction. H.G. Wells was a Fabian Socialist, and his later works suffered as his Socialist leanings took front and center, and the books turned from entertaining fiction to propaganda.
You can make a case Rand's work started out as propaganda, which can be deadly.
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Dennis