Sen. Paul Rips The "Collective" For Deciding Which Light Bulb To Use
SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY): "Ayn Rand wrote a novel, Anthem...It's a dystopian novel where individual choice is banned and the collective basically runs society. There's a young man, and his name is Equality 72521. He is an intelligent young man but he is banned from achieving or reaching any sort of occupation that might challenge him. He is a street sweeper.
Over time he discovers a subway and he rediscovers the incandescent light bulb. And he thinks, naively, that electricity and the brilliance of light would be an advantage for society and that it would bring great new things as far as being able to see at night, to read, and the advancement of civilization.
He takes it before the collective of elders, and they take the light bulb, and basically it's crushed beneath the boot heel of the collective. The collective has no place basically for individual choice.
Now, I'm not suggesting that this collective body is against electricity per se, or for quashing individualism. But I am suggesting that we're against choice."
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