The violence required to change things may be less than violence required to maintain our current way, but it's still violence and therefore we're at an impasse :shapiro-gavel:
I can’t remember the exact quote, but somewhere in The End Of The Tour, the David Foster Wallace character says something to the effect of this. When you’re small and unknown you convince yourself that the big players are sellouts and that your work is pure for being obscure. Then when you get big, you still judge yourself by those same metrics and it feels hollow
Winning means selling out. You don't want to be a sell out, do you?
Umm, actually victory is authoritarian. The status quo? Perfectly fine. :grillman:
"If you beat your enemies, they win"
This is slightly less funny than it should be, because a lot of people actually seem to believe it.
I know, it's the same mindset as "if you display any emotion, you're irrational and therefore wrong"
The violence required to change things may be less than violence required to maintain our current way, but it's still violence and therefore we're at an impasse :shapiro-gavel:
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White moderate detector goin' off like crazy :mlk-yes:
I can’t remember the exact quote, but somewhere in The End Of The Tour, the David Foster Wallace character says something to the effect of this. When you’re small and unknown you convince yourself that the big players are sellouts and that your work is pure for being obscure. Then when you get big, you still judge yourself by those same metrics and it feels hollow