Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Sociopath quote: diversification

A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

Niccolò Machiavelli

12 comments:

  1. All said without a word about an Alpha Wolf. I love it.

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  2. Peter, is that your handywork?

    Although, I did prefer your last piece much better.

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  3. Holy motherfucking shit. Somehow, I let this wack-job doctor talk me into taking these little blue pills. For months.

    Last night, I decided to stop. It's like waking up from a god damn dream. I seriously barely remember the last few months of my life.

    All I remember is starting to take these pills, then taking a bunch of vacation time and driving all over the fucking state, spending parts of pretty much every week sleeping in the wilderness in some mountain range or another. Catching and killing and eating a lot of fish. Starting a lot of fires. Talking to a bunch of really strange people. Swimming to an island with a convicted arsonist (who now thinks I stole his glasses). Blowing assloads of money on boat rentals, almost trading my car for a truck so I could buy a boat, and just... omfg.

    Then last night, I stop taking the pills, and all of this is like some weird dream that I sort of remember, but not very vividly. And I look back at the person doing all this, and it was this lifeless zombie on autopilot.

    WHERE HAS ALL THE FIGHTING BEEN???
    WHERE HAS ALL THE BICKERING BEEN???
    WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENDLESS CONFLICT THAT INVIGORATES ME SO???

    PETER PAN, YOU CANNOT DIE!!!!
    I'm not done with you yet.

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  4. Now I'm remembering trying to split wood by throwing 20" diameter logs at rocks in the middle of the woods. And continuing until I succeeded.

    Dude.

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  5. Sounds like a hell of a pill, Peter. What'd he have you on?

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  6. I'm going through a mild withdrawal right now. So far, it's not as bad as people have made it out to be. Stiff neck, random headaches, pulse is stronger, breathing issues. Pretty easy to ignore.

    Shit, I just feel good to have a little direction back in my life. It's amazing the difference that 1 day without that shit makes. Coming on 48 hours soon.

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