Has it ever occurred to you how much of a futile effort it is to keep to your own point of view, when faced with the greater forces that define and shape the world? Chaos isn't going to go away because you believe something. Disagreement isn't going to stop happening because you know you're right
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something about it being easy in solitude to follow one's own opinions and easy in a crowd to follow the crowd's but it's the great person who in the midst of the crowd can keep the independence of that solitude.
or something. you get the idea.
i have lots and lots and lots of opinions, but most of them aren't very firm. they are easily adaptable to incorporate new information (except for a few, which i've decided i've pretty thoroughly heard all the information I'm going to, and hearing more would just be repetition in different words) or susceptible to tinkering, and that works, usually. the point is most of them don't get made or thrown away on a whim. or something.
i dunno, i've been working all day and i'm sleepy, maybe i'll come back to this when i'm more coherent.
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:-D merry xmas sweetie
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