- “and who, we might ask is better equipped to know,
- we might ask—if we felt the urge—
- but it is as clear as the collective nose on our corporate face
- that George had a distinctly dismal view
- of the way things ought to be—
- and we just don’t agree, you see.
- and we don’t think you do either.
- if you but look around you—take a minute or two
- to take the time to look around and see yourself—
- and everyone else around you—
- do they look like you?
- do they act like you?
- are they subjected to the same indignities?
- or are you really the individual we know you think you are?
- George was wrong because he didn’t realize the enormous
- technological strides we have been making,
- he didn’t know how capable we have become
- at making things seem equal, he didn’t know how easy it would be
- to provide easy chairs and electric toasters,
- he didn’ know how quickly we would be able to standardize
- our refrigerators,
- how easily we could arrange credit,
- how simply we could simplify your lives
- so that everything we tell you is heard by all,
- and all we tell you is all you need to know.
- this is the crux of the matter: we have bet 2.3 billion dollars
- on you. not on George. that’s right. 2.3 billion on the fact
- that George had his glasses on upside down, and that everything
- George had imagined was really topsy-turvy.
- For if George was really right, don’t you think it would
- seem a whole lot worse than it is?”