The more useful a term is for marking my inclusion in a group, the less interested I will be in testing the validity of my use of that term against—well, against any kind of standard. People who like accusing others of Puritanism have a fairly serious investment, then, in knowing as little as possible about actual Puritanism. They are invested, for the moment anyway, in not thinking.
-Alan Jacobs, How To Think
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