The pervasiveness of corruption in the swamp seems like an impossible challenge to solve. So many people, so few cells, so little time to affect change.
When Alexander came upon the Gordian knot in Phyrgia, a knot seemingly impossible to untie, the Phyrgians challenged him to undo the knot. Instead of solving the knot puzzle through accep…
The pervasiveness of corruption in the swamp seems like an impossible challenge to solve. So many people, so few cells, so little time to affect change.
When Alexander came upon the Gordian knot in Phyrgia, a knot seemingly impossible to untie, the Phyrgians challenged him to undo the knot. Instead of solving the knot puzzle through accepted, conventional means, he struck the knot with his sword, completing the challenge.
Well said. As Erdogan said, Democracy is a bus. You get off at your stop. Permanent emergency time. Trump has to give it to Don Jr and Don Jr to Lord Baron. Maybe someday there can be elections (with voting only for the qualified) again. I hope so. But to give up power before the guilty are punished and the system reformed is madness.
11/22/24: Recommended: "Alexander The Great" ["20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC"], by Lewis V. Cummings; Houghton Mifflin Company (1940 hardcover). Long. Good.
The pervasiveness of corruption in the swamp seems like an impossible challenge to solve. So many people, so few cells, so little time to affect change.
When Alexander came upon the Gordian knot in Phyrgia, a knot seemingly impossible to untie, the Phyrgians challenged him to undo the knot. Instead of solving the knot puzzle through accepted, conventional means, he struck the knot with his sword, completing the challenge.
Well said. As Erdogan said, Democracy is a bus. You get off at your stop. Permanent emergency time. Trump has to give it to Don Jr and Don Jr to Lord Baron. Maybe someday there can be elections (with voting only for the qualified) again. I hope so. But to give up power before the guilty are punished and the system reformed is madness.
Yeah, and I know this too. Fucking yeah.
11/22/24: Recommended: "Alexander The Great" ["20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC"], by Lewis V. Cummings; Houghton Mifflin Company (1940 hardcover). Long. Good.