re: #99 The Ghost of a Flea

The Rapture doesn’t explain the endless number of secular conservatives, centrists, and liberals who also think constantly fucking with people, selling arms, propping up dictators, and a 25-year cycle of knifing the Kurds in the back is somehow going to result in lasting stability.

there’s a version of realpolitik that values the status quo over anything else because of a belief that the known is better (and more stable) than the unknown.