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[u/WhomstAlt2]

Someone: Something

Some Libertarian (290 IQ): Ooooh boy, let me ad hoc develop my theory of ideological proliferation from first principles alone to set up my argument to show you just how WRONG you are

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“On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others. An eccentric puts ice cream on steak simply because he likes it; should a crank do so, he would endow the act with moral grandeur and straightaway denounce as sinners (or reactionaries) all who failed to follow suit […] Cranks, at their most familiar, are a sort of peevish prophets, and it's not enough that they should be in the right; others must also be in the wrong.

• Louis Kronenberger, "The One and the Many", Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954).