Reply #101: An Excellent Point, Sir [View All]

[The Magistrate]

But allowance must be made for variance in personality and character. Some people are so constructed that they actively value being outside any large group, for they cannot feel they are distinct individuals unless in disagreement with the greater part of their fellow creatures. Such persons court alienation as a desireable good, and will go a good distance out of their way to create it for themselves. There is nothing particularly wrong with this over-all, for any such judgement is dependent on circumstances, but such persons are peculiarly unfitted for political action, particularly so where elections and legislating are concerned. These endeavors require the assembly of the largest possible blocs of persons identifying themselves as a group, if only for the moment votes are cast, if any success is to be had. People afflicted with the "indie music scene" view of life, obsessed with calculating who has "sold out", and resolved above all else to avoid that dire fate for themselves, can never be any good at it. Indeed, they cannot even understand the requirements for success, or comment intelligibly on the process.

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