To those of you who are yet to plunge into the zygote pool and want to know what both plumbless horror and pure love feels like, have yourself a baby...
He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident effort on teaching their fledglings to fly _ yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child__ education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think.From the first catch-phrases flung at a child to the last, it is like a series of shocks to freeze his motor, to undercut the power of his consciousness. __on__ ask so many questions, children should be seen and not heard!_ _ __ho are you to think? It__ so, because I say so!_ _ __on__ argue, obey!_ _ __on__ try to understand, believe!_ _ __on__ struggle, compromise!_ _ __our heart is more important than your mind!_ _ __ho are you to know? Your parents know best!_ _ __ho are you to know? The bureaucrats know best!_ _ __ho are you to object? All values are relative!_ _ __ho are you to want to escape a thug__ bullet? That__ only a personal prejudice!__en would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then pushing him out of the nest to struggle for survival _ yet that was what they did to their children.
Atlas Shrugged
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He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident effort on teaching their fledglings to fly _ yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child__ education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think.From the first catch-phrases flung at a child to the last, it is like a series of shocks to freeze his motor, to undercut the power of his consciousness. __on__ ask so many questions, children should be seen and not heard!_ _ __ho are you to think? It__ so, because I say so!_ _ __on__ argue, obey!_ _ __on__ try to understand, believe!_ _ __on__ struggle, compromise!_ _ __our heart is more important than your mind!_ _ __ho are you to know? Your parents know best!_ _ __ho are you to know? The bureaucrats know best!_ _ __ho are you to object? All values are relative!_ _ __ho are you to want to escape a thug__ bullet? That__ only a personal prejudice!__en would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then pushing him out of the nest to struggle for survival _ yet that was what they did to their children.
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The survivor spoke to us though, or tried to. Mumbling through that matted brown beard of his, pale as death itself. I can__ say now if it was weakness from his wounds or what it was _ but we struggled to understand him. In fact we got nothing intelligible from him at all then. He seemed afraid, like any dying man probably would be, but he did seem more terrified than any dying man I__e seen before _ and I__e seen a few in my time. Let me tell you, Corsair or not, he grabbed whatever hand would hold his, and clenched it so tight his knuckles turned white! He kept fading out as we carried him on the stretcher board the medics brought with them. Looking back, I think he tried to warn us, poor bastard. He tried to tell us to leave him behind and go, but we wouldn__ listen. We thought we were better than the Corsairs, remember? We thought we would be all moral and upright and try to help him. __on__ say I didn__ warn you._ were the last words he said before losing consciousness. At least, those that we could make out. At the end of it all, he was right _ as it turned out, we couldn__ even help ourselves.