Both Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman cared deeply about democracy.
They were idealistic about democracy, but “we” of democracy, though we understand little, know there can’t be anything of idealism in a true democracy.
A true democracy has a lot of shit– including impulsiveness, including uninformed consent– of which dang near all informed consent consists– including wanting to be included, however humbly, in inching forward, despite a storm,
A bunch of kids who didn’t learn their lessons, meant well though, and were processed, as sausage, into a link, but knew in a Mannahattas woman, a deep healing swarming, a strip club, farming.
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