Totalitarians and notalitarians are self-righteous. If we accept a single value, we feel that we are always right, because we think we are saying the right things with the right people. If we believe that nothing is of value, we also feel that we are always right, since it is impossible to be wrong. Since nothing (in the notalitarian mode) really matters, all that is sure are our feelings, on which we are the only authorities, and which we authentically express. Feeling is not only first, as the poet E. E. Cummings said: it is first and last, alpha and omega, everything. When a billionaire
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