>
> —[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.
>
> —Susan Sontag
>
> "The Buried Life" by Matthew Arnold
-> All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world
+> When all its work is done, the lie shall rot;
+> The truth is great, and shall prevail,
+> When none cares whether it prevail or not.
>
-> —Thomas Jefferson
+> —["Magna Est Vertias" by Coventry Patmore](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9M3ynNuBsRCDfmEsZ/less-wrong-poetry-corner-coventry-patmore-s-magna-est)
> Ultimately every examined life can be interpreted as a disaster; looking closely enough we can always discover psychological and social forces that provide fuel for unlimited rage. [...] But no life can transcend its own disasters unless it celebrates its uniqueness and contributes that which only it can contribute. Life is perverted if one is constantly reacting, never initiating, but always allowing rage to define it.
>
> —Steven Goldberg, _Why Men Rule: A Theory of Male Dominance_
-quote that _Blindsight_ passage about an evil god setting males and females against each other
-
----
(Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better ...)
Moliere on "dormative virtue"
(Blanchard's Dangerous Idea)
-> MUGATU
-> The man has only one look, for Christ's sake! Crossdresser, demigirl, trans woman? They're the _same people_!
->
-> Doesn't anyone notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!
->
-> —[_Zoolander_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbKBWtoH93Q) (paraphrased)
> Perhaps someday we [...] will be able to forthrightly acknowledge the paraphilic hand we were dealt and play that hand without equivocation or apology.
>
> —Anne Lawrence, _Men Trapped in Men's Bodies_
-(The Hand I Was Dealt)
-> Well this is the one that I had to write, it's like a
-> A letter of love with no love left out
+> _Well this is the one that I had to write, it's like a
+> A letter of love with no love left out_
>
> —"Dying to Begin" by Stretch Princess
-(The Hand I Was Dealt?)
-> I'll write my way out
-> Write everything down, far as I can see
-> I'll write my way out
-> Overwhelm them with honesty
-> This is the eye of the hurricane
-> This is the only way I can protect my legacy
->
-> —"Hurricane", _Hamilton_
-
> If you could see
> The other side of me
> I'm just like anybody else, can't you tell
http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/
+> Here's to those who love not too wisely, no, not too wisely, but too well
+> To the girl who sighs with envy when she hears that wedding bell
+> To the guy who'd throw a party if he knew someone to call
+> Here's to the losers, bless them all
+>
+> —"Here's to the Losers"
+
+> This book is about the female primates who have evolved over the last seventy million years. It is dedicated to the liberated woman who never evolved but with imagination, intelligence, an open mind, and perserverance many of us may yet become.
+>
+> —Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, dedication to _The Woman That Never Evolved_
+
+> "LMAO", says a member of the Community Team. A colleague approaches him and asks why he is laughing. "I just heard the funniest joke in the world!" "Well, go ahead, tell me!" says the other judge. "I can't–I just gave someone a code of conduct violation for it!"
+>
+> —old Soviet joke (paraphrased)
+
+https://xkcd.com/1942/
+
> A woman came up to me and said
> "I'd like to poison your mind
> With wrong ideas that appeal to you
> Though I am not unkind"
>
-> —"Whistling in the Dark" by They Might Be Giants
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+> —"Whistling in the Dark" by They Might Be Giants
+
+
+> 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/
+
+> Too long I've been afraid of
+> Losing love I guess I've lost
+> Well, if that's love
+> It comes at much too high a cost!
+
+> 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
+>
+> And now, I am better than win or lose
+> There's a new direction that I like to choose
+> It's called the truth, it's called the truth
+>
+> —"True Kinda Love"
+
+> In general, our society less and less encourages looking sexually attractive to other people and more and more encourages acting out inner fantasies that are unattractive to others to make yourself even more of a victim of society.
+>
+> —[Steve Sailer](http://www.unz.com/isteve/the-woke-war-on-homosexuals/)
+
+> All those days
+> Chasing down a daydream
+> All those years
+> Living in a blur
+> All that time
+> Never truly seeing
+> Things, the way they were
+>
+> —"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 generation—well—they 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)
+
+[Dagny talking to Wyatt and being in pain that he thinks she's one of the moochers]
+
+[You must say it, because it is true]
+
+> 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
+
+> In some cases, there is a reason for one gender to adopt certain tasks—males have stronger muscles, and females give birth, and thus big game hunting tends to be done by men (who, in most cultures, are typically male).
+>
+> —Cailin O'Connor, "Measuring Conventionality"
+
+> Given that females prefer to live with female relatives if they are going to live in groups at all, and given that the size and dispersion of these groups is determined by the interaction of food availability and predation risk, how should males map themselves onto the female distribution?
+>
+> Robin I. M. Dunbar, Primate Social Systems, Ch. 7, "Evolution of Grouping Patterns"
+
+> 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!
+>
+> —_Steven Universe_, "The Test"
+
+> He shrugged apologetically. "The question really has no meaning. _Why_ anything? The laws of physics and the boundary conditions of space-time. What more can I say?"
+>
+> —"Eugene" by Greg Egan
+
+(post for leaving Berkeley)
+
+> I said: "Sophie, I'm sorry things got heated last night. I understand your point of view. A lot of it used to be mine, too. Like I said, I went to U.C. Santa Cruz and Berkeley back in the 1970s, when everything was about socialism. But 40 years of life and reporting in 60 countries has taught me that life is more nuanced than that. These issues aren't that simple. They're more complicated."
+>
+> She replied, sounding a little distressed and a little bitter, I thought: "When did you begin thinking like that?"
+>
+> I said: "Piece by piece, not all at once. Over 40 years. Look, I'd love to talk to you again 40 years from now and see if your thinking has changed at all. But I can't—I'll be dead."
+>
+> She did laugh ruefully at that.
+>
+> —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
+
+> I have had the strength to live through it, I shall have the strength to write it down.
+>
+> —"The Husband I Bought" by Ayn Rand
+
+> Because life is a gradual series of revelations
+> that occur over a period of time
+> It's not some carefully crafted story
+> It's a mess and we're all gonna die
+>
+> If you saw a movie that was like real life
+> You'd be like "What the hell was that movie about?"
+> It was really all over the place.
+> Life doesn't make narrative sense.
+>
+> —"The End of the Movie", _Crazy Ex Girlfriend_
+
+> "Oh, yes," she said, "The Ainsworth house. You designed it. I'm sorry. You just happened to be the victim of one of my rare attacks of honesty. I don't have them often. As you know, if you've read my stuff yesterday."
+>
+> "I've read it. And—well, I'll follow your example and I'll be perfectly frank. Don't take it as a complaint—one must never complain against one's critics. But really that capitol of Holcombe's is much worse in all those very things you blasted us for. Why did you give him such a glowing tribute yesterday? Or did you have to?"
+>
+> —_The Fountainhead_ by Ayn Rand
+
+> _I don't care about what all the others say
+> Well, I guess there are some things that will just never go away, I
+> Wish that I could say that there's no better place than home
+> But home's a place that I have never known_
+>
+> —"On The Run", _Steven Universe_
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