Conversation · Empathy
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What's this? We're getting reports of normal, reasonable, temperate political opinions somewhere in Martinaise...
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Of course, a radical centrist. In these bright and loud times where a thousand frequencies drown one another out, sober thinking is a radical act...
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- Of course, a radical centrist. In these bright and loud times where a thousand frequencies drown one another out, sober thinking is a radical act...
- The air suddenly feels calmer. More transparent in a strangely tender way. Perhaps it's the hangover, perhaps it's a temporary surge of serotonin, but something tells you...
- It's also about that. But it's also more! Perhaps it's the hangover, perhaps it's a temporary surge of serotonin, but something tells you...
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No, I'm too fiery for this watercolour ideology. I'm trying to develop more extreme and interesting opinions... (Opt out.)
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That's a pity. Real democracy was just around the corner for Revachol. All the leading citizens are waiting there -- without you.
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It is not a place, it is a moment in time that can only arise in the right circumstances. In all of human history, it's only been achieved a handful of times...
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History's greatest catastrophes have been brought about by people trying to make the world a better place too quickly...
That's the genius of Dolores Dei. She recognized that progress is meaningless if its gains are lost because of instability. Real, lasting change can only come about gradually. Increment by increment.
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Tsk, tsk. Just because you live in the present doesn't mean you have the right to place your needs above the needs of the future...
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You may never live to see the Kingdom of Conscience. Your children may not. Even your grandchildren might not. But that's no excuse not to keep working...
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- There you have it. Sometimes holding the line is progress.
- What a fucking joke!
- That's the genius of Dolores Dei. She recognized that progress is meaningless if its gains are lost because of instability. Real, lasting change can only come about gradually. Increment by increment.
- Sometimes, in the face of great disaster, defending the status quo is progress.
What you want is immaterial. The Kingdom of Conscience is coming... WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. (Only very slowly.)
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- There you have it. Sometimes holding the line is progress.
- What a fucking joke!
- That's the genius of Dolores Dei. She recognized that progress is meaningless if its gains are lost because of instability. Real, lasting change can only come about gradually. Increment by increment.
- Sometimes, in the face of great disaster, defending the status quo is progress.
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Partly because humanity will need to discard many of the categories that define and limit it today. The Kingdom of Conscience is post-capitalist, post-national...
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That's right. Remember -- real democracy is just around the corner for Revachol. When that real democracy kicks in -- a long time from now -- we are all going to be so much happier.
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I knew we could trust you. Remember -- real democracy is just around the corner for Revachol. When that real democracy kicks in we are all going to be so much happier.
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It's also about that. But it's also more! Perhaps it's the hangover, perhaps it's a temporary surge of serotonin, but something tells you...
The air suddenly feels calmer. More transparent in a strangely tender way. Perhaps it's the hangover, perhaps it's a temporary surge of serotonin, but something tells you...