[Sally Paulson]

Imagine you’ve spent 6,000 years buying lottery tickets, and losing every time. Not only losing, but really suffering like crazy - say you starved your kids to death or sold them into slavery to pay for your lottery addiction. It has been 6,000 years of torture and torment.

Then, one day, you get the winning lottery ticket.

And then, while you’re barely done reading the numbers, someone suggests you trade the winning ticket for a different, random ticket. Because maybe you’ll super-duper win.

Would you do that? Would you trade the winning lottery ticket for a random ticket?

That’s how I feel about radicals. They look at the one and only civilization in history that’s not a total spit-hole, and they say “let’s do the opposite of everything this civilization does!” Then they wonder why being the opposite of winners ended up making them losers.