Editing Load-Bearing Fictions (section)

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|content=Some ask why I support [[Load-Bearing Fictions|“load bearing” &amp; “adult-level” fictions]] over the truth &amp; request examples. Here’s one: it’s likely structurally important that Supreme Court Justices continue performing in costume to suggest they’re spiritually superior druids of unfathomable legal genius.
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|content=I respectfully disagree. The immigration tale of US is an essential [[Load-Bearing Fictions|load-bearing national mythology]] lIke "1 man 1 vote." This is our story. https://x.com/martyrmade/status/826493460786008066
|timestamp=6:17 PM · Jan 31, 2017
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|content=What makes America great *is* in large part our mythology. If we tear all [[Load-Bearing Fictions|load-bearing myths]] to shreds (e.g. a 'Free Press') we undo the US.
|timestamp=1:22 AM · Feb 18, 2017
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|content=My problem is that we are not honest about the cost of these fictions. Further the cost of destroying these fictions may be immense. Do not discount the structural reality of a [[Load-Bearing Fictions|“load bearing fiction.”]]
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|content=The U.S. President today didn’t ‘recognize’ Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Rather we finally stood up to those who insist that we pretend it isn’t.
|timestamp=12:02 AM · Dec 6, 2017
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|timestamp=12:10 AM · Dec 6, 2017
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|content=That’s bad enough. But the real danger is breakaway factionalism. What if entire groups of citizens find incompatible ideologies irresistible? What unifies them? How do you hold citizens together when multiple groups say “different people have different rights.” You need bedrock.
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|content=This is a point I have also made in a different form. “We hold these truths to be SELF-EVIDENT...ALL men...are endowed by their CREATOR with certain UNALIENABLE Rights,”

You can complain all you want but those words are [[Load-Bearing Fictions|load bearing]]. That’s partly why this atheist says prayers.
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|content=Thread: I’ve come to the conclusion that the collapse we’re in now is the inevitable end of what purely secular liberalism looks like. (A sad reality as someone who wrote a book defending liberalism.) The tolerance baked into liberalism is what let Wokeism into the system
|timestamp=3:19 PM · Feb 6, 2021
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|timestamp=3:19 PM · Feb 6, 2021
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|content=If one worships at the altar of pure reason one may also lead a noble life. In fact it is wholly possible that one may lead a better and more moral life than the pious hypocrite down the street. That’s not the problem. The problem is secular humanism coordinating and scaling.
|timestamp=3:27 PM · Feb 6, 2021
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|content=When you hit the “why questions” over &amp; over you have no last line of defense when a sociopath or crazy person openly tells you “What’s wrong with my redefinition of human flourishing? Why are you right and I’m wrong? Who died and made you the arbiter of truth? Why these rules?”
|timestamp=3:27 PM · Feb 6, 2021
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|timestamp=3:50 PM · Feb 6, 2021
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