Posted by Ellsworth Toohey on April 22, 2002 at 14:51:28:
In Reply to: And who will pay for it posted by Dagney Taggert on April 22, 2002 at 07:47:48:
All those selfish, greedy individuals who think that they're entitled to get paid for their efforts shall pay for the common man's air fills.
First we shall elevate helplessness and stupidity and laziness to virtues. Anyone who disagrees with us shall be labeled racist or classist or selfish. We shall broadcast to everyone that they have their rights and that they must stand up for those rights. Of course we shall not speak of responsibility, for to do so would be to deprive I, Ellsworth Monkton Toohey and my collectivist, group-thinking stooges of the control over them that we have been working so hard to attain.
Then we shall use that modern media to numb what little mind is left of the sniveling masses. When they are so feeble that they no longer have any pride, when they are so hobbled and stooped that they will sacrifice any freedom or any right so that government will protect and indulge them, we will turn them against the entepreneurs, the inventors, the scientists, the free thinkers, the men who go out into storm tossed waters for a few crustaceans, and by popular demand, we shall do away with such human obstacles that we may face. The common folk won't even know what they're screaming for. They won't even have one inkling, as to where their demands will really lead them.
We will build a society that doesn't know how to swim. Then they will have little use for their Nitrox. They will depend on us for permission to even breathe. Of the only ones who know how to use it now, Dagny, your kind will soon be extinct. The collective shall reign, in service to us, their altruistic benefactors.