[–] 5 points 5 days ago

It's more or less spot on, from what I've seen, and it makes perfect sense. You don't get a system to last centuries without making it thoroughly self-reinforcing. And it's precisely what makes the outside perspectives valuable: it's hard for a fish to see water unless you take it out of it. Otherwise you just end up turning "boys will be boys" into "yes all men".

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    "The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”"

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