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Authoritarianism
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She’d worn anxiety like a thick robe for so long that it was hard for her to take it off.
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― In Our Bones
― In Our Bones
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I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator — that's beyond my conceit. I therefore have no choice but to find something suspect even in the humblest believer. Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism: they proclaim us, in Fulke Greville's unforgettable line, "Created sick — Commanded to be we
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― Letters to a Young Contrarian
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
