When I was a young kid my father once sat me down for a serious talk, probably the only one we ever had. He looked at me for a long time, and I remember thinking he seemed kind of sad. “Don’t let them fuck you over,” he said, “don’t ever let them fuck you over. There are a lot of assholes out there who, because they’ve got more money or more muscle or more fire power, think they can make everybody play their game. And mostly they’re right, and everybody does play their game, but there’s no way that they can deal with the man who doesn’t give a shit about their game—who plays his own game in
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