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The reality isn’t important; what’s important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception.
The hand of politics is so visible from their vantage point that they don’t know how they could have missed it at first. It’s utterly manifest in every detail of the view, just as the sculpting force of gravity has made a sphere of the planet and pushed and pulled the tides which shape the coasts, so has politics sculpted and shaped and left evidence of itself everywhere.
At Arizona State University, the local Mormon church offers discounted parking to students if they agree to take a religion class. Parking with the university can cost up to $800 a semester; parking with the Latter-Day Saints costs $15 (plus a bit of your soul).
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
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