Tradition, popularity, and other unquestioned habits all conspire to create the illusion of truth…

a bubble of blissful ignorance that “the faithful” dare not burst…

for fear of authority or of what the neighbors might think.

All that’s left is a dismal, timid, monotonous, self-perpetuating “unity” of imitation, docility, predictability, and routine.

Reducing “the faithful” to little more than “drinking buddies”…

… telling each other exactly what they want to hear.

… gleefully toasting their bigotry, scapegoating, and unjustified pride.

… comrades, but never friends.

… united not by mutual affection, but by superficial devotion to a cause that nobody understands.

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