"When your identity is your ideology, congratulations, you've officially screwed yourself, because now it's not just an idea, now it's you.
And when the idea gets challenged, you don't hear disagreement, you hear an attack. So what do you do?
You build a bubble, a nice, soft, padded little bubble where everyone agrees with you, uses the same words, hates the same people, and claps at the exact right moments.
And you will defend that bubble at all costs, even if it makes you sound incredibly stupid. Facts don't matter anymore. Logic's gone. Humor? Dead.
Because admitting you're wrong would mean admitting you are wrong, and that's unacceptable. So you double down, louder, angrier, dumber.
And that's how you end up defending nonsense like it's sacred scripture, not because it's true, but because without it, you'd have to actually develop a personality."
George Carlin
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