X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2F2016%2Fnew-clothes.md;fp=content%2F2016%2Fnew-clothes.md;h=b6fdd5dd9dec044fbed5c34f1f2da040fab5c74a;hp=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hb=6deb5a96e65e0c082fee7f5600941870147cfbfc;hpb=b7e0de3db53077d2212535fdafe6ead3ea3303a5 diff --git a/content/2016/new-clothes.md b/content/2016/new-clothes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b6fdd5d --- /dev/null +++ b/content/2016/new-clothes.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Title: New Clothes +Date: 2016-11-21 +Category: other +Tags: two-type taxonomy +Status: draft + +If we can't have a more truthful world, I think I would prefer more lies and fewer delusions on the margin. + +When the heroine of a dystopian YA novel uncovers the big lie at the center of her society, she wakes up tied to a chair in a dungeon, and a hooded agent of the shadow government says, "Congratulations, you figured out the secret. You _will_ keep quiet about it, or you _will_ regret it." + +In real life, when you uncover the big lie at the center of your society, everyone just sort of sneers at you and says, "What, _that_ old theory? That was debunked years ago! Only a stupid, evil, low-status person would believe something like that!"