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It hasn't changed much:
'I wish to be left alone,' said Scrooge. 'Since you ask me what I
wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at
Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to
support the establishments I have mentioned-they cost enough; and those
who are badly off must go there.'
'Many can't go there; and many would rather die.'
'If
they would rather die,' said Scrooge, 'they had better do it, and
decrease the surplus population. Besides-excuse me-I don't know that.'
'But you might know it,' observed the gentleman.
Choosing not to know -- choosing not to see. Deliberate ignorance in the face of unwelcome insight. And if someone
pushes that insight upon you, what then?
[1]"Deny it!' cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand towards the city.[2]
'Slander those who tell it ye! [3] Admit it for your factious purposes, and
make it worse! And abide the end!'
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