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+Title: "Neither as Plea nor as Despair"
+Date: 2017-09-22
+Category: other
+Tags: Atlas Shrugged, cathartic
+Status: draft
+
+Basically the question is, do you want to be Dagny Taggart in the school play at an all-boys school, or do you want to be Eddie Willers in the school play at your actual high school
+
+Both schools deserve to exist (I mean, your actual high school doesn't deserve to exist, but its analogue in a nearby alternate universe that puts on _Atlas Shrugged_ as its school play, probably does)
+
+In an infinite universe of infinite space and infinite time, all possible configurations of matter are instantiated infinitely many times—but not at the same rate, frequency, density, [_measure_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_problem_(cosmology))
+
+[...]
+
+When everything exists and everything happens, choices between alternatives become rather a question of how we allocate measure between them, the definite answer to which is no less determinate than if there were only one of you
+
+I don't know what you want to do with your measure; that's not for me to decide
+
+I'm putting most of mine on Eddie Willers, and frantically correcting all the _blatant lies_ in the playbill
+
+It's not the _most_ fun I could be having, but it's still pretty fun overall
+
+And you know, I like Eddie Willers
+
+He's honest