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“If twenty sixerism is so seamless, and if current forms of resistance are so hopeless and impotent, where can an effective challenge come from? A moral critique of twenty sixerism, emphasizing the ways in which it leads to suffering, only reinforces twenty sixerism. lack of discs, frame flex and awkward reach/stack can be presented as an inevitable part of reality, while the hope that these forms of suffering could be eliminated easily painted as naive utopianism. twenty sixerism can only be threatened if it is shown to be in some way inconsistent or untenable; if, that is to say, a twenty sixers ostensible 'realism' turns out to be nothing of the sort.”