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CJKent (Banned)

“The more a person needs to be right, the less certain he is...”

And in return you preach to your employers the brands of metaphysics that are especially acceptable to them; and the especially acceptable brands are acceptable because they do not menace the established order of society. ...

You are sincere. You preach what you believe. There lies your strength and your value—to the capitalist class.

But should you change your belief to something that menaces the established order, your preaching would be unacceptable to your employers, and you would be discharged. ...

Your hands are soft with the work others have performed for you. Your stomachs are round with the plenitude of eating. ...

And your minds are filled with doctrines that are buttresses of the established order.

You are as much mercenaries (sincere mercenaries, I grant) as were the men of the Swiss Guard.

* Jack London, Ernest Everhard addressing a group of teachers, in The Iron Heel (1908), Chapter 1