roachboy

art:

it is fine if you think supporting the home team is a good thing.
i am glad to see that you accept the fact that there are others who value the idea of dissent, even the strongest possible dissent. that way you and i, for example, can continue to talk even though politically we occupy antithetical political positions.

there is a paradox in your position, i think:
from a view oriented toward maintaining the existing order, dissent is kind of like a feedback loop--like any bureaucratic system, the state (the government) requires feedback loops to adjust its relation to the world around it.
if everyone, everywhere thought that "supporting the home team" was not just a good idea, but was necessary, the result would be that the "home team" would implode, and that sooner rather than later. that implosion---which would start with a slide into irrationality in which internal fantasies about the world would replace information about the world, from which chaos would follow, would take down along with it everything you would defend.

so it would seem self-defeating to argue that support for the home team makes any sense in general.
because if your argument were to win politcally, in the real world, you would lose, and lose entirely.

so its probably better this way. even if it pisses you off.

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