Since the emergence of Guttenberg’s printing press, there have existed two prime purposes of the printed word which eventually expanded into the modern publishing industry. One, for commercial, profitable exploitation and, two, for the widespread marketing, promotion of propaganda, whether social or political. In retrospect, the emergence of Russian expatriate Ayn Rand as a major American literary figure soon after the publishing of her debut novel in 1943 appears to have been positioned within the latter context.
Although that which is considered to be Rand’s debut literary effort, The Fountainhead, and her subsequently published work, a seminal magnum opus entitled Atlas Shrugged, were both reportedly commercial best-sellers, Rand’s novels read like none-too-subtle polemics, deliberately contrived mechanisms delivered in the form of literature, each of which was designed for the widespread promotion of a philosophical treatise which came to be known as “Objectivism”. Such an analysis of Rand’s literary approach renders their supposed mass appeal among the American general public, whose remedial reading tastes have always been better suited for the consumption of comparatively trivial supermarket brand paperbacks rather than highbrow hardbacked literature, to have been rather dubious and perhaps even artificially manipulated.
According to Wikipedia, “Rand’s books have sold over 37 million copies worldwide.”
Notice that the number included in the preceding quotation represents a code of an occultic nature: 37 million=3 7’s or 777, Alistair Crowley’s joker intelligence code.
But to put the significance of Rand’s novels into better context, one must consider the timing, and the particular era in which they appeared, during an emerging “cold war” between the U.S. and Soviet governed Russia. When understood within this larger geopolitical context, the true nature of the role in which “Ayn Rand” – identified as an actor portrayed by a British royal – was cast becomes not only better understood but quite transparent.
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