Re: The burn-off of Tom Veil

[Tyler Durden]

"The reality is even more weird, I think.  Suppose there's some 
struggling-to-make-it new family down the street, and I start helping out by 
bringing them dinner every night.  If I do it for a few days, e.g., while 
the mom is in the hospital or something, it's a genuine act of kindness.  If 
I do it every day for five years, then they are more-or-less going to become 
dependent on me."

Hum....perhaps some truth there. Now whatr if the mom in the hospital 
actually dies while your helping that family? You've got a problem on your 
hands! In this case a few things can happen:

1)The kids grow dependent on you, and when you stop providing they can't 
cope and so get mad at you and fight to move in with you.

2)You can keep supporting them forever.

3) You start thinking, "Oh crap. These kids are going to depend on me 
forever unless I equip them for reality."

Of course, if Option 3 is considered, the objection might be "Hey! These 
aren't my kids, why do I have to do this?" But the reality is that things 
are what they are. The only way out is to "hope for" some kind of war or 
armageddon that wipes out the kids, or just realize is going to be like this 
forever unless you accept the reality of the situation and start equipping 
them.

Like any analogy, this is probably over simplistic. But it does represent 
one axis of truth methinks. Oh, and there's probably a 4) I missed that 
should be mentioned:

4) Recognize that those orphan kids are never going to be offered a job and 
think about how to tear the whole system down.

-TD





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