It does. She understood the abusive state and the malice of mediocrities very well. I bought my kid a copy of Anthem not long ago.
A true visionary. Sad for us, though.
I preferred the bad old days in NYC when I saw a man parade through the Criterion movie theatre in Times Square with a machete and nobody in the audience blinked. It seemed awfully dangerous at the time but, somehow, I now prefer it to these zero-tolerance days...