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“The problem is that most of us hated school. His fallacy was much the same as progressivism's: the assumption that if he could just explain the facts clearly, build a convincing enough argument, eventually everyone would come around to his conclusion. But people aren't interested in lectures; they want to hear stories. Which is why the right holds the demagogic advantage over the left in America; they tell a simpler, more satisfying story.”
― We Learn Nothing
― We Learn Nothing
“Bird 1: This is the wrong story.
Bird 2: All stories are the wrong story when you are impatient.”
― War of the Foxes
Bird 2: All stories are the wrong story when you are impatient.”
― War of the Foxes
“The drag queens who started Stonewall are no better off today, but they made the world safe for gay Republicans. It's a bitter pill to swallow, but the people who make change are not the people who benefit from it”
― The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination
― The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination
“You have given me a thing I could never have imagined, before I knew you. It's like I had the word "book," and you put one in my hands. I had the world "game," and you taught me how to play. I had the word "life," and then you came along and said, "Oh! You mean this.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“No one with power in America "comes around." They always have to be forced into positive change.”
― The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination
― The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination
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