The whole counterfactual exercise of "Who would I be if I were born 400 years earlier" will make your head hurt if you think about it "I would've been a heretic" I mean, maybe, but you probably wouldn't believe any of the same things you do now, like why would you https://twitter.com/avoiding_bears/status/1218138545212264449 …
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I had this argument with a college boyfriend who believed the whole bootstraps thing and I said well if you'd been born on the street and lived in a cardboard box in downtown San Francisco you really think you'd believe the same thing and he said yes. (he has since changed)
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I know if I'd been caught at certain malleable points in my life I could be a very different person politically and socially than I am. It's a good point.
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