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Adam Prentis's avatar

Superb essay – Sanger, I know, but it gave me much better clarity of how fundamentally this whole unobtrusively perverse worldview stems from the ideas of Bacon, Jefferson et al. and the drive for perfection (or, "the elimination of all human suffering"). And that anecdote at the end is so wholesome. I'm afraid a lot of us are affected by the Light Person perspective without even realising it.

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Robert Smith's avatar

“They constantly try to escape

From the darkness outside and within

By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.

But the man that is will shadow

The man that pretends to be.”

T.S. Eliot

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