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Worse

Title text: My knowledge of Batman ends somewhere around 1952, when his costume was at its peak.

Votey

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Alfred, am I just making everything worse?

Sir?

I'm just out here fighting obvious bad guys. Gives the public the impression that good civic life is a matter if pointing out who is obviously bad then taking any action that thwarts them.

But the real origin of most human suffering is diffuse things like scarcity, ignorance, and our latent tendency to intergroup animosity.

The only solution to those things is trustworthy widely-venerated institutions and norms. Things like service clubs, a free press, engaged citizens, and deliberative bodies responsible to a well-educated public.

If everyone believes an individual large rich man can and should fix it, they not only vacate their responsibility to personal involvement, they come to believe anyone who can't heal the world in a way that is clear, fast, and amusing to watch must be a coward or a cheat.

Maybe you should reveal your true identity and seek office?

By god alfred that's it!

And so...

What have

And that's why

Mr. Wayne will you lower my taxes, provide me more services, and eat this local fried food-thing?

I done?

Housing should

I..

It's so good!

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Votey Transcript

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It was on his ininety-fourth deep fried butter on a stick that batman ceased to believe in democracy.

Fuck 'em

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