I don't recall any posting in these 12 pages saying AR is great, she's right-on, what a brilliant contribution she has made, etc.

I thought virtually everyone who has commented on her work/philosophy/whatever has been at best indifferent and most have said 'yuck'.

And setting aside her agenda as I recall, from a literary perspective her works were 'dry as toast', plot development of a junior high school student, and I remember as I read it waiting for whatever it was that she was going to do or say that made her so well known at the time.

I was pretty young but could not understand why her works were considered so special.

Interesting to see her actual name.

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oops, I spoke too soon. 10fords was writing as I was as well.

I agree, that one of her ideas, the danger of the little man who'd rather destroy his betters than acknowledge his own failings is prescient and tragic.

But that idea is not unique to AR and IMHO other authors have done a much better job, both intellectually and aesthetically of presenting that to the audience.