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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bell" data-source="post: 40101" data-attributes="member: 354">That's probably true. I don't find that there's a possibility to grow into it anymore, and aside from the political repartee I wouldn't be able to rein in the complete personality shift that I would need to undergo. Imagining myself in cosplay is terrifying. I'm not particularly fond of "neopuritanism" but there's something to be said about the humiliation rituals of the left.I think that criticality in thought immunizes you from political determinism to some extent. I was never fully "insulated" from these spaces, but even I found their antics repulsive on an instinctive level. Despite that, I always dreamed about the social goods I could obtain from that life in the abstract, which I guess won't come to pass.</blockquote>