When I was in college, I always had a couple of radical friends who were involved in politics and protesting things. They paraded with signs outside of large corporations, and occasionally stopped up intersections and got arrested. I never saw the point. It seemed that all they managed to do was get themselves in trouble; what does a corporation or the government care about a few extremists and nuts?
When I left college, I found to my surprise that not only did I have time to myself to read about the world, but that it was deucedly interesting, and not at all what I'd imagined! Far from the fairly just, relatively honest world in which I had thought I lived, beyond the walls of my bubble there were hundreds of thousands of people being killed and billions of dollars being siphoned away from the public good, all by the actions of a few evil men in government and running corporations.
Almost everyone I knew were caring, honest people who, while they might disagree about the means, all had good intentions and would not knowingly endorse such terrible actions. But the evidence kept piling up that these things really were happening. How could this be?
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