-- carried to the point of supinely reading the 'papes and watching the tv and doing nothing when carleton lufteufel had given his speech in 1983 at cheyenne , the so-called numerical fallacy speech in which he had made the inspired , brilliant point , much head-nodded at , that it was not so that a nation needed a certain number of survivors to function ; a nation , lufteufel had explained , does not reside in its people at all but in its know-how .