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“Most communities attempting to survive under irresistible pressure from a dominant culture
develop a myth that allows them to believe they are somehow a special people. Chosen. Favored by the gods. Gypsies, Jews—plenty of historical precedents.”
How can I tell the good people from the bad, if the bad people all have some way of convincing themselves that they’re trying to do good even though they’re doing something terrible? And the good people can believe that they’re actually very bad even though they’re doing something good?
