The Reality-Based Community Opts For Fantasy

The t-shirt reads i do not consent to being searched, of course in reaction the NYPD's prudent (though bothersome) decision to begin checking bags at subway entrances.

It's very simple. There are some on the left that don't like the real world. They'd prefer a different world, one in which terrorism wasn't occurring, and if it were perpetrated, then perpetrated by White Male Corporate Pigs rather than Oppressed Heroic Multicultural Victims that they're supposed to feel solidarity with.

So they're just checking out. This world doesn't please them, so they'll engage in a bit of collective communal fantasy -- a bit like live-action role-playing, except with Birkenstocks and moccachinos instead of broadswords and wizards' staves -- and wish all the icky stuff away.

Fine. But just be aware of what you're doing, and allow the rest of us -- those of us not LARPing around in the real world -- to handle real life while you're earning experience points in delusion and denial.

posted by Ace at 08:47 PM

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