"I have a plan," Wilbur announced after dinner one day.
"A plan for what? I feel like you're kind of throwing us in the deep end, here."
"What, you don't think he can do it? I bet you anything he can do it. I bet...... £5."
"I totally have £5. I have--" He empties some coins from his pocket onto the table. "--Okay, so I have £4. I bet £4 Wilbur changes the world."
"Oh? What's that? Don't want to lose your money? See, Wil, he knows, he knows you're gonna do it and he doesn't want to lose his money."
Small chuckle. "Sure, if that makes you feel better about it."
"I'm gonna start an enclave. Or, like, not really an enclave, because it'll be for indies, but it'll be like an enclave."
Terrence laughs.
"....Wait, you're being serious? That's--that's a really dumb idea, I'm gonna be honest with you."
"It is not. It's a great idea and you're just mad you didn't come up with it first, you dumb fucking, uuuugh, this is like, fucking, Van Gogh or some shit, greatness is never recognized in its own time, except by me, because I am great. That is why I am so good at recognizing it."
"No, no, listen. I have a plan. You always talk about how the enclave system isn't fair, don't you, Terrence? It's just--privileging the people who are lucky enough to be in them, at the expense of the rest of us."
"Wil, even if you did succeed, you'd just become that which you claim to oppose. It'd just be another enclave, doing the same things."
"You can't get rid of people coming together in groups, doing something for a purpose. That's, that's where anarchy fails. It's not that there's something wrong with the idea, it's the--the exclusivity. It's like the scholomance, right? The purpose isn't bad. To offer sanctuary and protection to all the wise-gifted children of the world. That's noble! That's--that's a noble ideal! The problem isn't with the idea, the problem is that it isn't actually open to all the wise-gifted children of the world, right, it's only open to the privileged ones and then some extras as cannon fodder. But the solution isn't to get rid of the scholomance, that's dumb, everyone would just die more."
"I'm not denying that we need something better. But another enclave, that isn't it. That isn't going to change the world. Lots of enclaves have existed without changing the world."
Shrug. "The master's tools can never dismantle the master's house."
"No, because I will just make the tools like me more, and then they will be my tools and I will dismantle so many houses with them and they will call me the dismanteler. What does that even mean, dismantle. Are houses normally mantled. I do not think I have ever mantled a house."
"It means, uh, you can't take down systems of oppression if you're working with the tools of a system of oppression."