March 18, 2007

Squibs

I aten't dead.

It's a poor defense of fantasy that "it's only jailers who despise escapism", because it isn't quite true: jailers despise escape, but escape-ism without escape makes the inmates quiet.

The phrase 'x trumps y', where x and y are categories of outsiderdom, annoys a lot of people; not just those who think that y trumps x, but people who object to describing social ills as a game. I am not going to add injury to insult by making this joke in the middle of a serious conversation, but of course it's a game; we're all playing Social Contract Bridge Called My Back.

So wrote clew in Meta.
And thus wrote others:
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