Ayn Rand predicts white guilt

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In her novel "The Fountainhead", the antagonist Ellsworth Toohey says,

>If you learn how to rule one single mans soul, you can get the rest of mankind. There are many ways; here's one, make man feel small, make him feel guilty, kill his aspiration and his integrity, preach selflessness, tell man he must live for others, tell man that Altruism is the ideal. Not a single one of them have ever achieved it and not a single one ever will. Man realises he's incapable of what is accepted as the greatest virtue and it gives him a sense of guilt, of sin, of his own basic unworthiness, you've got him. He'll be glad to obey because he can't trust himself, he feels uncertain, he feels unclean; That's one way, here's another

>Kill mans sense of value kill his capacity to recognise greatness or to achieve it don't deny the conception of greatness, destroy it from within. Laughter is an instrument of human joy, learn to use it as a weapon of destruction, turn it into a sneer, don't let anything remain sacred in mans soul and his soul won't be sacred to him. Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man, Here's another way and this is most important-

>Don't let man be happy, Happiness is self contained and self sufficient, happy men have no time and no use for you, happy men are free men, so kill their joy in living, take away from them what is dear or important to them, make them feel that the mere fact of a personal desire is evil bring them to a state where "I want" is no longer a natural right but a shameful admission - Altruism is a great help in this, from sex to ambition to profit motive is considered depraved or sinful, just prove that a thing makes men happy and you've damned it; That's how far we've come, we've tied happiness to guilt and we've got mankind by the throat; You must tell people that they will achieve a superior kind of happiness by giving up everything that makes him happy - That's the oldest one of all