adifferentname wrote:
techstepgenr8tion wrote:
I'd admit that my own, ie. human stupidity being the tombstone of liberal democracy or, even further, the tombstone of the human race, seems to be getting less and less uncommon these days.
Suppose all you can do is light a candle rather than curse the darkness.
And be accused of trying to burn it all down to the ground.
Lol, and what I've found helpful there is helping people articulate the ugliness and/or incoherence of their ideas. If it can't help them realize anything it can at least help other people who chance to read it. The light of clarity shines with equanimity on fine artisan porcelain and rotten potatoes alike.
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“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” - James Baldwin