The libertarian response to our present crisis is to assert its non-existence. They shake their heads until their eyes blur and proclaim this clarity of vision.
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We are all bigots when our sense of self depends upon it.
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It is no more abject to read a book because everyone else has than to avoid it for the same reason.
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The recurrent nightmare of a Papuan warrior finds him deep in enemy territory when his comrades suddenly vanish. The techno-grunt jangling with gadgets and acronyms suffers exactly the same dream. We are no different from our ancestors –– only more encumbered.
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Doubtless the play in which I must perform tonight, without having learned a single line, would in the dream of an earlier incarnation have been the rowan twig with which I confronted a sabre-toothed tiger.
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