For a certain kind of temperament, defeat is never defeat by reality, but always defeat by other people, often acting together as members of a class, tribe, conspiracy or clan.
Waaant equity, hisses the alien intruder.You can't be Pamela Macx, says Pierre, his back to the wall, keeping the sword point before the lobster-woman-thing. She's in a nunnery in Armenia or something...
This kind of action is a prevalent error among oppressed peoples. It is based upon the false notion that there is only a limited and particular amount of freedom that must be divided up between us, wi...