"Reality is that which doesn't go away when you stop believing in it"
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"You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you."
Ergo, reality is political
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If you stub your toe because you're not looking where you are going, you should yell "Dammit Mitch McConnell!"
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These are all pretty obvious ideas that feature in multiple intellectual traditions
I'm sure Scarry is great, but you may be overindexing on her particular flavor of them
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