There are gigantic conglomerates of evil, arsenic-laced people at the bus stop, at the corner store. In your water, there's traces of evil, zinc, copper, pollutants, diluted phthalates, and in your cow, well, thousands of pieces of cow. There's nothing that isn't unpure. There's nothing that's pure, that's acceptable, if you don't want it be there.
Which is, in short, why tea party republicans have such energy--they reject the need to work too hard to get to the pure stuff. They reject the complexity that exists for something simpler, something less polluted.
I'm not sure if it is a religious claim. The left of course, has levels of purity/filtration that mark hierarchy. Locally grown foods, et al.
There are probably issues we can come together on in theory. In practice, whenever one person gets into the lead a little bit, he or she is willing to throw away her share of common advancement for personal gain.
Why are we all so fucking selfish like this? Everybody wants a little kingdom. Once they get that, they want a medium level kingdom. And then, well, onward. If their justification is that everyone else is already that selfish, and that it is a dog-eat-dog world out there, well, they're on to something descriptively, but I'm not so sure it is a prescriptive fix for more than the short term.
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