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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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What Ellison's saying here is that most of us are fundamentally *bad*, so we need continuous scrutiny so that we are always haunted by the specter of judgment, which will keep us from yielding to our base selves.
2026-10-05T19:07:41.390Z