From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 23:36:52 +0000 (-0800) Subject: draft: "New Clothes" X-Git-Url: http://534655.efjtl6rk.asia/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1c102b1bcf40a8bf4e804cb4489653014e3cf7c1;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git draft: "New Clothes" --- diff --git a/content/drafts/new-clothes.md b/content/drafts/new-clothes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b6fdd5d --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/new-clothes.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Title: New Clothes +Date: 2016-11-21 +Category: other +Tags: two-type taxonomy +Status: draft + +If we can't have a more truthful world, I think I would prefer more lies and fewer delusions on the margin. + +When the heroine of a dystopian YA novel uncovers the big lie at the center of her society, she wakes up tied to a chair in a dungeon, and a hooded agent of the shadow government says, "Congratulations, you figured out the secret. You _will_ keep quiet about it, or you _will_ regret it." + +In real life, when you uncover the big lie at the center of your society, everyone just sort of sneers at you and says, "What, _that_ old theory? That was debunked years ago! Only a stupid, evil, low-status person would believe something like that!"