When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.
In the nineteen sixties and seventies, there were people in all the democratic countries who didn__ have any real power, and they started going to the people who did have all the power and saying, __ll these principles of equality you__e been talking about since the French Revolution are very nice, but you don__ seem to be taking them very seriously. You__e all hypocrites, actually. So we__e going to make you take those principles seriously._ And they held demonstrations and bus rides, and occupied buildings, and it was very embarrassing for the people in power, because the other people had such a good argument, and anyone who listened seriously had to agree with them.__eminism was working, and the civil rights movement was working, and all the other social justice movements were getting more and more support. So, in the nineteen eighties, the CIA__ she turned to Keith and explained cheerfully, __his is where X-Files Theory comes into it _ hired some really clever linguists to invent a secret weapon: an incredibly complicated way of talking about politics that didn__ actually make any sense, but which spread through all the universities in the world, because it sounded so impressive. And at first, the people who talked like this just hitched their wagon to the social justice movements, and everyone else let them come along for the ride, because they seemed harmless. But then they climbed on board the peace train and threw out the driver.__o instead of going to the people in power and saying, __ow about upholding the universal principles you claim to believe in?_ the people in the social justice movements ended up saying things like __y truth narrative is in competition with your truth narrative!_ And the people in power replied, __oe is me! You__e thrown me in the briar patch!_ And everyone else said, __ho are these idiots? Why should we trust them, when they can__ even speak properly?_ And the CIA were happy. And the people in power were happy. And the secret weapon lived on in the universities for years and years, because everyone who__ played a part in the conspiracy was too embarrassed to admit what they__ done.
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In the nineteen sixties and seventies, there were people in all the democratic countries who didn__ have any real power, and they started going to the people who did have all the power and saying, __ll these principles of equality you__e been talking about since the French Revolution are very nice, but you don__ seem to be taking them very seriously. You__e all hypocrites, actually. So we__e going to make you take those principles seriously._ And they held demonstrations and bus rides, and occupied buildings, and it was very embarrassing for the people in power, because the other people had such a good argument, and anyone who listened seriously had to agree with them.__eminism was working, and the civil rights movement was working, and all the other social justice movements were getting more and more support. So, in the nineteen eighties, the CIA__ she turned to Keith and explained cheerfully, __his is where X-Files Theory comes into it _ hired some really clever linguists to invent a secret weapon: an incredibly complicated way of talking about politics that didn__ actually make any sense, but which spread through all the universities in the world, because it sounded so impressive. And at first, the people who talked like this just hitched their wagon to the social justice movements, and everyone else let them come along for the ride, because they seemed harmless. But then they climbed on board the peace train and threw out the driver.__o instead of going to the people in power and saying, __ow about upholding the universal principles you claim to believe in?_ the people in the social justice movements ended up saying things like __y truth narrative is in competition with your truth narrative!_ And the people in power replied, __oe is me! You__e thrown me in the briar patch!_ And everyone else said, __ho are these idiots? Why should we trust them, when they can__ even speak properly?_ And the CIA were happy. And the people in power were happy. And the secret weapon lived on in the universities for years and years, because everyone who__ played a part in the conspiracy was too embarrassed to admit what they__ done.
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