{we're smarter than they are, we're better-looking (some of us anyway), we're braver, we're more fun at parties, kids like us way better, and we write better books and make better music than they do and don't even start about art, plus there's more of us if you widen the definitions of both sides. so how come we're losing?
well, it's like this. the most essential qualities of good guys are the things they CAN'T do.
now, it's true there's stuff that good guys feel they ought to do, and bad guys don't feel that, particularly. but the sad truth is, bad guys CAN give money to the orphange rebuilding fund, they can help old people cross the street, they can do everything and anything we can do, if they want to, just not as well, in the aesthetic/quality aspect, plus THEY CAN DO ALL THE BAD GUY STUFF TOO. and we can't. so they have a larger palette to work with, so to speak. and in the short run, cheating works. brutality works.
but, why are there good guys at all? there's no short-term rationale for it.
that's it. right there. long-term. that's what we are. that's the difference. that's how come we're losing right now, and that's why we're going to win.}
the above inspired by the perfect needle of Perry Hoberman's Because You Can, put forth by Dan Gillmor
