>
> —[probably apocryphal](http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/09/darwinism-hope-pray/) reaction to Darwin's theory of natural selection
-(This is Worth a Fight?)
-> "—but if one hundred thousand straights can turn up, to show their support for the gay community, why can't you?"
->
-> I said wearily, "Because every time I hear the word _community_, I know I'm being manipulated. If there is such a thing as _the gay community_, I'm certainly not a part of it. As it happens, I don't want to spend my life watching _gay and lesbian_ television channels, using _gay and lesbian_ new systems ... or going to _gay and lesbian_ street parades. It's all so ... proprietary. You'd think there was a multinational corporation who had the franchise rights on homosexuality. And if you don't _market the product_ their way, you're some kind of second-class, inferior, bootleg, unauthorized queer."
->
-> —"Cocoon" by Greg Egan
+
> What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
>
>
> —old Soviet joke (paraphrased)
-> Don't think.
-> If you think, then don't speak.
-> If you think and speak, then don't write.
-> If you think, speak, and write, then don't sign.
-> If you think, speak, write, and sign, then don't be surprised.
->
-> —Soviet proverb
-
https://xkcd.com/1942/
> A woman came up to me and said
>
> —"Whistling in the Dark" by They Might Be Giants
-> "The only thing standing in the way of my own progress," Sagreda said, "is that the forces that once dealt with us honestly have been buried too deep to reach. All I can touch now is the surface, which is shaped by nothing but whim."
->
-> —["Bit Players"](https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/winter_2014/bit_players_by_greg_egan) by Greg Egan
-> Every asshole these days has a blog. Every asshole with a blog wants to “change the world.” But the great thing about being right is that, when the world catches on, you really can’t tell whether or not they heard it from you. The truth, being true, belongs to all.
+> Every asshole these days has a blog. Every asshole with a blog wants to "change the world." But the great thing about being right is that, when the world catches on, you really can't tell whether or not they heard it from you. The truth, being true, belongs to all.
>
> — https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2010/11/ur-heard-it-here-first-files/
> It comes at much too high a cost!
(Kolmogorov's Iron Triangle)
-> Go, Soul, the body’s guest,
+> Go, Soul, the body's guest,
> Upon a thankless arrant:
> Fear not to touch the best;
> The truth shall be thy warrant:
> Say to the court, it glows
> And shines like rotten wood;
> Say to the church, it shows
-> What’s good, and doth no good:
+> What's good, and doth no good:
> If church and court reply,
> Then give them both the lie.
>
> —["The Lie"](https://www.bartleby.com/40/48.html) by Sir Walter Raleigh
-
-> Do not at the outset of your career make the all too common error of mistaking names for things. Names are only conventional signs for identifying things. Things are the reality that counts. If a thing is despised, either because of ignorance or because it is despicable, you will not alter matters by changing its name.
->
-> —W. E. B. duBois (http://www.virginia.edu/woodson/courses/aas102%20%28spring%2001%29/articles/names/dubois.htm)
-
-
> Stuck, in the middle of fear and shame
> Everybody's looking for someone to blame
> Like it's a game, like it's a game
>
> —"I Can See the Light"
-> 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 generationâ\80\93wellâ\80\93they have gone too 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 childrenâ\80\99s generation will see you as the nut-job.
+> 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 generationâ\80\94wellâ\80\94they have gone too 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](https://devinhelton.com/historical-amnesia.html)
[You must say it, because it is true]
-> A similar definition of intelligence was expressed by Aquinas as "the ability to combine and separate"—the ability to see the difference between things that seem similar and to see the similarities betweeen things which seem different.
->
-> —Arthur R. Jensen, "How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?"
-
> Odeen was selfishly pleased with his own flow and thought it graceful and impressive. He had mention that once to Losten, to whom as his Hard-teacher, he confessed everything, and Losten had said, "But don't you think an Emotional or a Parental feels the same about his own flow-pattern. If each of you think differently and act differently, ought you not to be pleased differently?"
>
> —_The Gods Themselves_ by Isaac Asimov
>
> Robin I. M. Dunbar, Primate Social Systems, Ch. 7, "Evolution of Grouping Patterns"
-> If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
->
-> —Zora Neale Hurston
-
> STEVEN: Test? What do you mean, test?
> PEARL: Eugh, well, it wasn't really a "test", per se. Not in the traditional sense. We just wanted to see if you were ready to go on missions.
> STEVEN: That's _exactly_ what a test is!
>
> She did laugh ruefully at that.
>
-> —https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/nytimes-peru-n-word-part-four-what-happened-in-peru-2a641a9b5e83
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+> —https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/nytimes-peru-n-word-part-four-what-happened-in-peru-2a641a9b5e83
+
+(Friendship Divorce)
+> _I wish you well
+> Couldn't you tell after all these years?
+> I wish you love
+> And life in a world that you're dreaming of_
+
+> This is the one that I had to write
+> It's like a letter of love with no love left out
+>
+> —"Dying to Begin" by Stretch Princess
+
+> When truth is buried underground it grows, it chokes, it gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
+>
+> –Emile Zola
+
+> And Durham—the software puppet, the lifeless shell animated by a being from another plane—looked him in the eye and said, "You have to let me show you what you are."
+>
+> —_Permutation City_ by Greg Egan
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