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Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.
Public support must be husbanded as a finite national resource. It must be spent wisely, sparingly, and with the greatest return on your investment.
Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don’t, and anyone who says they do is full of shit. There are no rules, no scientific absolutes. You win, you lose, it’s a total crapshoot.
“fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.” That blew me away. “Turn on the TV,” he’d say. “What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.” Fuckin’ A, was he right. Fear of aging, fear of loneliness, fear of poverty, fear of failure. Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells. That was my mantra. “Fear sells.”
It’s a lot easier to blow up trains than to make them run on time. What is it that Mister Churchill used to say? “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
“One cannot cross a river without getting wet.”
aka deal with it
Every year the summer’s a little longer, the skies a little bluer. It’s getting better. Just wait and see.
respite on the horizon!! need to remember this when times get tough
