It’s hard enough to get used to a crappy life. But once you do, you see that even crap can be cozy and the coziness becomes important to you. And even the slightest change—in the name of progress or healing or uplift—feels like a threat to your existence, so you ignore it as long as you can. Sometimes you ignore it even after you supposedly can’t. This is one thing liberals continually miscalculate: the human desire to leave things just the way they are. Some of it was rooted in the fact that you can wait so long for something that waiting becomes the thing itself. You take your wait and cut
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