Conservatives and liberals have convinced too many people about the absolute finality of their respective visions of the ends of history they rehearse in their minds.
This firm conviction that nothing but these dictated, restricted pre-fab permafutures are possible is not defeatism, and not self-defeating: it's something worse.
It's inception of an idea deep down the brain that from the perspective of the host of the ideavirus feels like he has thought those thoughts himself
Parasitic disease