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Old 8th November 2007   #35
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Originally Posted by biggator6 View Post
Ayn Rand's "the fountainhead" should be required reading for everyone before they graduate or drop out of high school. She wrote about the celebration of mediocrity and what it would do to society... in the early 1940s!! The stuff she covers in that book is EERILY familiar today (but substitute newspapers for television, etc)
It was forecast long before that. Try Alexis de Tocqueville's 'Democracy In America'... ca. *1833*.
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