Ah, I’d forgotten that part. And now that you remind me of it, I remember that I intentionally started the quote after that line because I didn’t like it, for reasons similar to the ones you brought up. I now concede that he did seem to imply that keeping unmotivated people away from what they want is desirable (although I expect he would object if someone put it that way explicitly). He still mostly focused on getting around brick walls rather than leaving brick walls up, though.
Ah, I’d forgotten that part. And now that you remind me of it, I remember that I intentionally started the quote after that line because I didn’t like it, for reasons similar to the ones you brought up. I now concede that he did seem to imply that keeping unmotivated people away from what they want is desirable (although I expect he would object if someone put it that way explicitly). He still mostly focused on getting around brick walls rather than leaving brick walls up, though.