¶ Musical Chairs
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RBF Definitions
"It’s no longer a matter of pulling the top down, or jailing the heretics. It’s pulling the bottom up, and every body can be brought into the success we’ll all enjoy… The top can react as it will. To the extent that it’s not thinking, it’ll be fierce… They’ll pull every trick they can just when they don’t need to anymore.
“We’ve always played musical chairs. You start with 100 people and 99 chairs. Well, you could play it another way. You could start with one chair and a thousand people. That was the old condition on Earth. But then you begin manufacturing a few more chairs. The players increase but the chairs increase faster. Now we know that the chair manufacturer can make enough for everybody to sit down. When there was only one chair you felt pretty god damn exclusive when you sat down.”
¶ Citations
- RBF to Barry Farrell; Bear Island; Tape #9, Side A, Transcript pp. 2-3, 23 Aug’70
