Both Uses of
subversion
in
Atlas Shrugged
- I had surrendered that which all of their claptrap is designed to subvert and to destroy: man's reason.†
Chpt 3.3 *
- Whenever you committed the evil of refusing to think and to see, of exempting from the absolute of reality some one small wish of yours, whenever you chose to say: Let me withdraw from the judgment of reason the cookies I stole, or the existence of God, let me have my one irrational whim and I will be a man of reason about all else-that was the act of subverting your consciousness, the act of corrupting your mind.†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(subversion) gradual destruction (of something previously established) -- such as a government, rule, or belief