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I travel a fair amount.  There are certain strip malls you see in every city which could be in ANY city.  You have no way of knowing if you’re in Memphis,  Chicago, or Albuquerque.

It seems to me that many political views are like this, particularly on the Left.  The whole project has been oriented around quality control, which here means homogenization, and the availability of outrage when it is politically useful.  Large segments of our population have not had an original, individual, personal perception in their entire lives, and since they spend all their time with ideological others, they don’t realize this.  Their beliefs are just background, assumed, and never examined.

I like to fuck with people like that, and they don’t like it, not one bit.  It’s not my job to bring peace to the complacently and arrogantly wrong.  A sword: yes, a sharp, really fast one, to separate quickly vanity from fact, reason from illusion, assumption from truth.

Of course I’m not changing minds, in general, although I have won a few converts.  It is to show the morally and mentally alive how easy it is.  Upon such people our world depends.