||"The slate has never been clean, and we can't wipe off the surface to start fresh--there's no 'fresh' to start... there is no primordial state which we might wish to go back to, no Eden we have desecrated, no pretoxic body we might uncover through enough chia seeds and kombucha," writes Shotwell. "[Purism] is a common approach for anyone who attempts to meet and control a complex situation that is fundamentally outside our control."||

- From Alexis Shotwell, Against Purity, as quoted by Emerson Whitney, Heaven, p130

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