“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.“

On A Quotation From Ayn Rand

We’re almost living in that age,

Approaching now the final stage

Of ultimate inversion, when

Permission is required by men,

From government, who’ve placed a cage

About them.  How will they assuage

Their guilt, speak out and thus engage

In bolst’ring freedom’s cause, again?

Almost living,

Caged, can we measure, gauge

The distance left, can any sage

Predict the time, when in the pen

The bolt will drop?  And God, what then?

Too late to cry and scream and rage:

Almost living.