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This is often the moral agony of the duct taper: to be forced to organize one’s working life stone caring about a certain value (say, cleanliness) precisely because more important people could not care less.

It is as if we have collectively acquiesced to our own enslavement.

“Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them.”

“What am I supposed to think about when I hear the words gang and cult?”
"You can start by thinking, 'The word is not the thing.
You can start by thinking, 'The thing does not become bad by being called a bad name.' You can start by thinking, 'The fact that this thing has been called a bad name doesn't mean I can't think about it.'

“As you move out into the world, you’ll find that the intellectually insecure often bolster their confidence by maintaining subjects in solid, impermeable categories of good and evil.”