Freedom as a goal in itself for just the sake of freedom is sort of silly. At first one loves that kind of talk, but then one realizes she really means it. All of Rand's themes that pop up in her other books, pop up within this short book. Love at first sight is the only love she seems to recognize, equality is bad and liberty (freedom) is the only pure good, the ego rules supreme, our lives must have work in order to be happy, and a variation of the Galtism "I swear by my life and love of it, that I will never sacrifice for another and neither expect some one to do the same for me". The story is only there to bring out Rand's absolutist (Objectivism) worldview. Sure there's something about a light bulb, and a street cleaner and other odds and ends that unfold in a Spartan like world similar to what Plato laid out in his Republic.
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