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Utopian ideologies are psychopathic and arise from an inability to inhabit reality (at least without treatment).
Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism
James Lindsay
A whole family of self-flattering words serves as benedictions for the vision of the anointed. “Progress” and “progressive” are prominent examples. But everyone is for “progress,” by definition. They differ only on specifics, though these differences may be extreme and even violent. Words like “progress” or “progressive” preempt these specific issues by arbitrarily assuming the differential desirability of one’s own preferred changes, without having to debate substance—or even acknowledge its relevance.
The Vision of the Anointed
Thomas Sowell
“There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing.”
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
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