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- You can’t change your biology, you can only mutilate it.
- I always wonder why some people are only sexually and emotionally attracted to cold, soulless others; the desire for soullessness is almost more pernicious than soulless itself.
- I’m skeptical of those who say they live for other people — because other people are very unreliable objects of our care. There’s something almost unstable about people who have disavowed all forms of selfishness.
- Politics have replaced real community in America: we obsess over politics because it makes feel as if there is such thing as a polis.
- Finding wisdom is like striking oil
- The terms left and right, progressive and conservative are worthless; at this point, I’m just considered with finding interlocutors who can vaguely think for themselves — regardless of conventional policy positions.
- Isn’t microaggression just another word for human nature?
- There is something insufferable about people who think they know, as opposed to those who are content to admit that they are merely learning.
