We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
—Plato
When a wise man points to the stars, an imbecile criticizes the finger.
—Confucius (modified)
This whitepaper is the culmination of years of observations in combination with some proprietary research across different fields. The process of shaping these ideas involved deep immersion on both ends of the political spectrum, as well as in many alternative ideologies across fragmented parts of the Internet. I have had to adopt various online personas and wade through swamps of fanatics and mentally ill people, pretending for years to have views that I actually do not hold in real life, to find the occasional ...
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