Journals of Lord Malinov

the poetry of madness

brutality

We live in a brutal world.  No matter what atrocity we have known, history can provide lessons of inhumanity on even grander scales.  Cruelties that are as absurd as they are nasty.  Torments that required significant resources and planning to undertake.  What a piece of work is man, saith the Hamlet, tongue firmly encheeked.

Most battles have been decided by relative stupidity - mistakes taking significantly more lives than brilliant planning every did.  Stay steadily smart and only bad luck forms your resistance.

Unfortunately, one man's smart is another man's arsenic.  Smart is as smart does implieth the Gump.  I am only certain that smart has many facets.  Some people mistake their smartness in some facets for a general smartness.  A general smartness requires significant overall smartness but usually neglects some facets.  Overestimating our smartness is one of the most unattractive things we can do when dealing with other smart people.

I remember my early networking community experiences - discovering that pretending to know anything on the Internet would be exposed faster than DSL. 

Malinov

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#1  27 August 2005 - 10:30

 

Love the word "encheeked". I'll have to use it in a sentence, sometime.

SianNorah

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