It’s an inversion: They believe that it is their perceptions that validate the world.
Alistair Danning, An Anecdotal History of Radicalism.
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Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
[Golda Sachs] proclaimed that “we must erase all things that dull the revolutionary impulse.” Apparently she did not regard that statement as being one of those “things”.
Palmer Coates, The Dark Afternoon of the Soul.
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” “Pictures are worthless.” Is there a contradiction here?
Titus Musgrave, The Mystery of Sleep.
And what would Alinsky have us do? Lie, lie, lie, and lie. Then, point at our enemy and say, “Liar!”
Paul McCutcheon, A Phenomenology of Moral Theater.
We must never notice the way things are. We must confine our attention to how our theories are.
Titus Musgrave, The Enigma of the Box.
This always: What is the normal thing to be doing at this instant?
Christopher Jayne, A Critique of Sincerity.
How could there possibly be any unintended consequences? How? How?
Charles Pfanning, Mild Interrogations.
—Are you lost? At all? Possibly?
—Shut up.
Philip Cavendish, Tilly’s Treasury of Colloquial Bits.
Frederick had it. Oh he had it, all right. He had that “alienation” that he could not stop dramatizing.
Anselm Bligh, A Collection of Miniatures.
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