“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favours – when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed.”
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Totally lifted from http://johngaltline.wordpress.com/ (Suzi Q Platz)
3 comments:
God, I hope you and Ayn Rand are not right.
It is unless and until we change course. That will take recognizing we're on the doomed path & mustering enough resolve to get off our arses & work at restoring order. That'll be tough with the "What, me sacrifice?" generation and our public baby-sitting, I mean "education" system.
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