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 [[Disdain beauty-pageant politics]].  If a political angle seems ridiculously simple — so obvious, whether from the left or right that ''even a child'' could grasp its transparent eternal veracity — yet somehow it hasn’t taken hold in the world, that’s because it ''is'' ridiculous and childlike.
-If an idealistic political idea has exploded from nowhere, unprompted by technological revolution nor the emergence of generations-long grievance, presume it is a fashion that will soon be obliterated by the massed forces of opportunism, cynicism, impatience, and the general practical need to get on with the tawdry business of making ends meet, at one end, and turning a profit, at the other.
+If an idealistic political idea has exploded from nowhere, unprompted by technological revolution nor the emergence of generations-long grievance, presume it is a fashion that will soon be obliterated by the massed forces of opportunism, cynicism, impatience, and the general practical need to get on with the tawdry business of making ends meet, at one end, and turning a profit, at the other. If you like it, enjoy it while you can. If you don’t, bide your time: it will pass soon enough.
-Idealisms are fragile: if they stay soft, they have no impact. crystallise they fracture and get blown away.
+Idealisms are fragile: if they stay soft, they bend to the vicissitudes of the world, but do not impact it. If they crystallise, they fracture and get blown away by the complex system we live in.
 “[[Imagine]] no possessions...” — wait a minute whose grand piano is that? And whose stately home? OH IT’S ''YOURS'', JOHN?