Personal Politics
(I) You create the appearance of a struggle for the purpose of building the myth of your own overcoming.
(II) You create the appearance of a crisis for the sake of introducing a solution that -- absent the crisis -- would be unacceptable.
(III) Having employed force and fraud to obtain some honor you feign disinterest in laurels -- suggesting that anyone, really, might do even better with just a little, honest, hard work.
(IV) You refuse to acknowledge any rival's disadvantage -- always ready with the story of some third party in a yet more difficult circumstance; you admit no comparison with yourself.
Circa 2008, on-line, the two things worse than being stupid are (a) being old; and (b) being boring. That's why you hate (a) history; and (b) politics. And that's why you're stupid.
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(II) You create the appearance of a crisis for the sake of introducing a solution that -- absent the crisis -- would be unacceptable.
(III) Having employed force and fraud to obtain some honor you feign disinterest in laurels -- suggesting that anyone, really, might do even better with just a little, honest, hard work.
(IV) You refuse to acknowledge any rival's disadvantage -- always ready with the story of some third party in a yet more difficult circumstance; you admit no comparison with yourself.
Circa 2008, on-line, the two things worse than being stupid are (a) being old; and (b) being boring. That's why you hate (a) history; and (b) politics. And that's why you're stupid.
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