Michael Knowles

And then to bind them to that happiness with a chain.

What is it that we're doing right now if not that?

The ancient dream of paradise.

Remember, in paradise, they've lost all knowledge of desires, pity, love.

They are blessed with their imaginations surgically removed.

The only reason why they are blessed.

Angels, the slaves of God.

Okay.

And now at the very moment when we've achieved this dream, when we have seized it like this, when all that remained was to dress the kill and divide it into portions, at this very moment, you are going to ruin everything.

And when you hear his description of paradise,

He's not so far off the mark, is it?

In paradise, it's not like we're all going to be smoking cigs and drinking and having sex with I-330.

We're going to be singing the Sanctus in choirs, looking at the beatific vision.

We will be, in a certain sense, slaves to God.

Yes, of course, because look, it sounds well and good if I say, Michael, you have the freedom to go do a bunch of crack and go to a brothel and drunk drive a car down a highway or something.

It sounds like I have a lot of freedom, but not really.

I'm actually a slave to my passions and appetites.

Whereas sitting, not even with a book, if I just sit in a chair and pray or contemplate God, if I have the discipline of will to do that, yes, it's the highest freedom you can imagine on earth.

What role does the fact that this guy comes out of the Bolshevik revolution play in his conception of freedom and revolution?

I'll tell you how it happens.