The thing is that I don\u2019t know enough about the thing to be able to quantify the thing well enough to discuss it accurately. Not that anyone cares about that; so many people spout off about so much without knowing much of anything about that thing.<\/p>\n
Knowing what one was talking about would require the acquisition of facts. Who has time for that? Facts are anachronistic: relics from a bygone era when people cared about truth. No one cares about facts now. No one cares about truth now.\u00a0 What matters now is how the thing makes you feel. Emotions are what rule our society now that The Enlightened have taken over.<\/p>\n
Those who become indignant when The Enlightened burn homes and loot businesses of innocent bystanders because someone said or did something that upset The Enlightened, are knuckle-dragging bigots, bent on\u00a0hauling society back into the caves of law, order, and morality.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s the thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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