a key principle i think i have at this point is that the world is pluricentric in many different ways, that this is a beautiful thing, and that there is no ideology (for example) i think to be so worthy as to risk throwing that pluricentricity away

this has many implications but one of them is that i am a bit suspicious of revolutionaries even if i can understand the dream and agree with them that a better world is possible

it also means: yes, i genuinely do not want to live in a world where i am surrounded purely by like-minded people, even though we are obviously right about everything and i might like it if we had more power

this is also my response to people who ask “but isn't your being queer incompatible with thinking the [xxx]s shouldn't bomb the shit out of the [yyy]s”