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The Serpent Eats Itself

There is an old and rather useful principle in political philosophy—useful, at least, to anyone not actively attempting to build a belief system out of fumes and grievances—that you cannot construct a livable house on a foundation of pure negation. You can, however, erect something like a haunted shack: all drafts and whispers, full of imagined enemies, structurally unsound and permanently one hard knock away from collapse.

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There is an old and rather useful principle in political philosophy—useful, at least, to anyone not actively attempting to build a belief system out of fumes and grievances—that you cannot construct a livable house on a foundation of pure negation. You can, however, erect something like a haunted shack: all drafts and whispers, full of imagined enemies, structurally unsound and permanently one hard knock away from collapse.

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