God forbid we have people reading science fiction in this day and age. It's a good thing the SFWA is around to put a stop to things like that.
"well, maybe that's less likely to be true in the mid-twentieth century. In the '50s or whenever, there was less media to choose from, so people were more likely to have all seen the same media."
I think this was a shot at one of Rand's more easily mockable persistent rants--that people who liked the wrong composers or the wrong writers (god forbid you like Tolstoy) or didn't smoke cigarettes (seriously!) were in some unexplained manner evil and anti-human. This was because Rand arrived at all of her preferences and pleasures via the unimpeachable philosophy of Objectivism. Therefore anyone who arrived at competing pleasures must be "putting their emotions before their rationality" or following some competing philosophy. Both of which disqualified you from being a human being, of course.
I read through Atlas Shrugged in high school at the behest of a friend. Quite enough for me, thanks. Though judging from bullet point plot summaries like this of The Fountainhead, I don't really need to because they're both the same book.
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