Saturday, April 6, 2024

day no. 16,602: all their miscalculations will misfire, but still cost someone something

"Living in the world that actually exists is an enormous advantage. There are times when it almost seems to me like cheating or something. In the long run, we need not worry. In the long run, blind stupidity never works. The revolutionary alternates between throwing rocks at the moon and barking at it." — Douglas Wilson, Rules for Reformers

The barking outside your door is a bit disconcerting and the rocks they throw might miss the moon, but they still come down on someone somewhere. All the miscalculations of the malcontents will misfire, but they still cost someone something. Their misjudgments cannot work, but they create a lot of work for the clean up crews. They might imagine themselves jugglers, but the clean up required in aisle 6 says otherwise and rest assured, they don't imagine themselves janitors either. 

All that said, the world that the revolutionaries want to live in doesn't exist and cannot be built. You cannot construct an imaginary banquet out of concrete bricks. Whatever they build must be borrowed from God's reality, but they cannot build circles out of triangles. They can re-brand triangles and called them circles, but they cannot live in or build up a circular world that way. That kind of project goes down the circular drain and it fits down there quite nicely. 

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