I was looking for Firefox icons. Found some. Unfortunately, one of them was this utter abomination.

“He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable. And it has a fascination, too, that goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination—you know, imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate.”

-Joseph Conrad

How do Covid deniers deal with their own illness and even death. Ive been wondering about this. So horrifying … https://t.co/oX4hKVRvaw

— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) November 16, 2020

Oh fuck. Few things disturb me; that did.

There is nothing more resilent and less amenable to change than ideology based in identity. The left has no lock on that, of course — they just tend to be more obnoxious about it in normal times.

But these are not normal times, and thus we are seeing the last literal gasp of dying of identity. These people are perishing and their final thoughts as they struggle to breathe are denying the truth of their condition.

You hate to see it.