So You Want to Change the World?

So You Want to Change the World?


"They got me. For years, I liked their posts. I skimmed their articles. I learned their talking points. I retold their stories. I mastered their language, though its acid argot ate away at the foundations of the voice, my own, that I had worked so hard to build from nothing. I went to their protests. I followed their races. I became 95 percent certain that I knew who the heroes were, and 100 percent that I could accurately name the villains.

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You see? They got me.

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But who were 'they,' exactly?"


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