A Human Strategy, Matt Berry aphorism 73

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We were not born realists, nor did we make a choice.  The civilized climb from what-is to the peak of what-should-be has been so mob-driven and the height so fearsome that we can not even contemplate the solitary descent back down to the truth.  And it is no matter that this problem never shows itself to consciousness — for we are not without help.  Our friends elected us to the congress of complacency, then dispatched us for the public discovery that we were real.  It is possible that no one became a realist who was not first carried up to this Tarpeian Rock upon the shoulders of his fellows.  




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