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David Schell
@davidms.bsky.social

My dear Wormwood, It is imperative that you keep the patient away from doing anything to improving the material conditions of his neighbors, by any means necessary. Call it socialism, call it woke, call it politics, whatever is needful. (1/6)

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David Schell
@davidms.bsky.social

And do not concern yourself with whether the church will do them, either; we have spent centuries teaching the churches to be concerned with their own survival above all else and to do such things as would oppose the projects of Our Father Below only as they have time and money. (3/6)

David Schell
@davidms.bsky.social

In your letter you mentioned that you had shown the patient the fictitious quotation from me that our colleague Thistlefoot has succeeded in popularising, recommending that you keep the patient fixated on politics. This is very good. (4/6)

David Schell
@davidms.bsky.social

Whenever he begins to feel concern for anyone we have entrapped in suffering, or is tempted to involve himself in the improvement of material conditions of others whom we have spent centuries building systems to make miserable, simply remind him of this quotation, (5/6)