+> —Stan Kelly-Bootle
+
+(critiquing Julia Serano on trans being natural)
+> Because it's going to be the future soon
+> And I won't always be this way
+> When the things that make me weak and strange
+> Get engineered away
+>
+> —"The Future Soon" by Jonathan Coulton
+
+(how long can the lie endure?? what happens when it all falls down?)
+> It's time to put an end to this deception
+> But I'm afraid
+> When the whole thing is at an end
+> And you learn that it's just pretend
+> You'll cry "Deception"
+>
+> —"Deception", _Jem_
+
+> The realization blasted through Harry like a vast dam breaking, releasing out all its water, bursting through his mind in an irresistible flood that swept everything away.
+>
+> There is only one reality that generates all of the observations.
+>
+> If different observations seem to point in incompatible directions, it means the true hypothesis is one you haven't thought of yet.
+>
+> —_Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality_ by Eliezer Yudkowsky
+
+> Ooh-bi-doo, I wanna be like you
+> I want to walk like you, talk like you, too
+> You see it's true, an ape like me
+> Can learn to be like you, too
+>
+> —"I Wanna Be Like You", _The Jungle Book_
+
+> Yet each generation seems to accept the craziness of the past generation, even when balking at the craziness of the new generation. We think that in the past, academia was on track, and that those who opposed progress were crazy, right-wing nut-jobs. But we dissidents think that this time, this new generation–well–they have gone to far and have gone crazy. There is a certain Cthulian horror when suddenly you realize that many of the nut-jobs in the past were actually right. Many were slandered retroactively, not because they were wrong, or evil, not because they made bad predictions, but because they lost and the winners wrote the histories. There is a horror in realizing that you are just like them, this cycle has played out before, and that your children’s generation will see you as the nut-job.
+>
+> —[Devin Helton](http://devinhelton.com/historical-amnesia.html)
+
+Moliere on "dormative virtue"