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"Centrism" is literally
"not what those other guys are doing,"
rather than an affirmative idea set.
It's an attitude
rather than a system of thought.
But guess what?
This is what actual conservatism is...
There's No Such Thing as an Informed Centrist
Matthew Sheffield
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The Weekly Review
Todoist
The only controls available to those on board were two push-buttons on the center post of the cabin—
one labeled on and one labeled off.
The on button simply started a flight from Mars.
The off button was connected to nothing.
It was installed at the insistence of Martian mental-health experts, who said that human beings were always happier with machinery they thought they could turn off.
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut
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