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    "title": "Reactionary Philosophy In An Enormous, Planet-Sized Nutshell",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>If you \u00e2\u0080\u009ccriticize\u00e2\u0080\u009d society by telling it to keep doing exactly what it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s doing only much much more so, society recognizes you as an ally and rewards you for being a \u00e2\u0080\u009cbold iconoclast\u00e2\u0080\u009d or \u00e2\u0080\u009chaving brave and revolutionary new ideas\u00e2\u0080\u009d or whatever. It\u00e2\u0080\u0099s only when you tell them something they actually don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t want to hear that you get in trouble.</p>\n<p>Western society has been moving gradually further to the left for the past several hundred years at least. It went from divine right of kings to constutitional monarchy to libertarian democracy to federal democracy to New Deal democracy through the civil rights movement to social democracy to ???. If you catch up to society as it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s pushing leftward and say \u00e2\u0080\u009cHey guys, I think we should go leftward even faster! Two times faster! No, fifty times faster!\u00e2\u0080\u009d, society will call you a bold revolutionary iconoclast and give you a professorship.</p>\n<p>If you start suggesting maybe it should switch directions and move the direction opposite the one the engine is pointed, then you might have a bad time.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy-in-an-enormous-planet-sized-nutshell/\">Reactionary Philosophy In An Enormous, Planet-Sized Nutshell | Slate Star Codex</a></em></p>\n"
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