These are just riffs.
Anything should be considered plausible. The exact opposite of the chumleys sneering at "conspiracy theories". Develop the rapid-response eval, but listen, weigh the likelihood, and move.
What's happening, what is really happening, behind the dust and nonsense, is going to be weirder than you want it to be. Get ready. Stay light on your feet.
Evil's not a joke, or a relative concept, or some PHD seminar in a foreign language.
It's what wants to eat your children.
It will unless you kill it, in yourself and in the world.
What's surfacing in Iraq is the future; it's been the present for a lot of people already. They have an advantage over you, they already feel nothing.
Balancing, always. It's ok to be afraid, but it's not ok to give in.
What that is is coming here.
It's already down at the border, it's already in the parts of the city you don't go. It's been in the prisons those rebels live in for years.
This thing works on your compromises - to save your kids you may have to endanger them. Just like your life. It's called risk. And when everything's at stake you may have to risk everything. They're banking on your cowardice.
Anything should be considered plausible. The exact opposite of the chumleys sneering at "conspiracy theories". Develop the rapid-response eval, but listen, weigh the likelihood, and move.
What's happening, what is really happening, behind the dust and nonsense, is going to be weirder than you want it to be. Get ready. Stay light on your feet.
Evil's not a joke, or a relative concept, or some PHD seminar in a foreign language.
It's what wants to eat your children.
It will unless you kill it, in yourself and in the world.
What's surfacing in Iraq is the future; it's been the present for a lot of people already. They have an advantage over you, they already feel nothing.
Balancing, always. It's ok to be afraid, but it's not ok to give in.
What that is is coming here.
It's already down at the border, it's already in the parts of the city you don't go. It's been in the prisons those rebels live in for years.
This thing works on your compromises - to save your kids you may have to endanger them. Just like your life. It's called risk. And when everything's at stake you may have to risk everything. They're banking on your cowardice.
