“They are confused. They have rarely even encountered what I will call speaking. They have freedom of talk, which isn’t much of a freedom at all. To have freedom of speech, it seems to me that one must be capable of producing speech. For this task, one must first be endowed with all that is missing from our people and collectives. Such capacities as intelligence, thrift, sagacity, insight, humor, originality, nobility of spirit, inspiration, bravery, love, and determination. Tell me, have they any of these? No? Then they have neither freedom, nor speech. It is Babylon II.”

— an anonymous informant