"Do not attempt to rise on the looters' terms or to climb the ladder while they're holding the ropes. Do not allow their hands to touch the only power that keeps them in power: your living ambition. Go on strike- In the manner I did. Use your mind and skill in private, extend your knowledge, develop your ability, but do not share your achievements with others. Do not try to produce a fortune, with a looter riding on your back. Stay on the lowest rung of the ladder, earn no more than your barest survival, do not make an extra penny to support the looters' state. Since you're captive, act as a captive, do not help them to pretend that you're free."
-Ayn Rand
from Atlas Shrugged
I am rereading the Fountainhead now, however. I still have no desire to make money for others, so employment is problematic. But I see conviction as an endangered species. Moreso than ethics, values, or morals even.
There was more I had wanted to say as epilogue to last month's many anniversaries, though I feel this says far more than enough.
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