User blog comment:PerhapsTheOtherOne/Speculative Spitballing: The General Public/@comment-5426254-20150720004504/@comment-24891101-20150721193253

Referring to Legilis. An oppressive society that stomps down on expression and individuality? While 1984 might not be the best dystopian parallel, one can hardly deny that for all the reasons one might think Atlas presently that way, those better apply to the regime of Atlas past, the agressor in the world war the greater part of a century ago, after which regime change and reparations (in the form of the CCT) occurred.

I am agreeing with you.