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There's never only one way forward. Besides, how does the old saying go:

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

So who knows, maybe somebody reads one of my rants one day and goes "Hey, this mindcrime guy has a point... and furthermore, I see a better way to do this" and takes some initiative. Who knows what might happen?

Now, are the odds of that infinitesimal? Probably, but that's OK. I ran for public office (and lost) as a Libertarian, so that tells you what I think about odds. :-)



The important point here is "adaptation". The unreasonable do not "create new worlds", they just adapt the one they are living in.




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