Hi Billy, Very impressive! I’m not sure whether to be flattered or offended…
Perhaps I should return the favor sometime? — Ernesto > On Jan 17, 2019, at 5:16 PM, Billy Rojas <[email protected]> > wrote: > > There was a time when Sajor had attempted to explain this to his friend and > the founder > of the Radical Centrist group, a man named Ernesto, someone with a variety of > professional contacts in Silicon Valley, but it was hopeless. Ernesto could > not believe > that the government would take part in the kind of criminality that Sajor was > describing. > For Ernesto, how politics works is little different than the classic movie, > "Mr. Smith > goes to Washington." > > As smart as he is, very smart, Ernesto's worldview simply would not allow > for deep-cover > crime at the top. Which was kind of quaint, as Sajor saw it. This was a > point-of-view that, > he had thought, had gone out of fashion in the early 1960s. But no-one had > given Ernesto > the memo. It was pointless to say any more to the group. > > Ernesto was an idea man, one of the best, at home in the world of advanced > business systems > and high tech wizardry, but the realm of Realpolitik was as incomprehensible > to him > as a foreign civilization where everyone spoke Tocharian. He simply had no > taste > for the messy world of actual politics where nearly everyone operates with > mixed > motives and where it is necessary to know details about the agendas of > several hundred > people. And there were all those specifics, with no place for grand universal > principles. > Hence, Ernesto ignored all of that even though he sometimes pretended he knew > everything. > > Sajor once thought to himself that if, by some miracle, Ernesto ever was > elected to Congress > he would be sliced and diced as thoroughly as Jack the Ripper had cut his > victims into shreds. > Ernesto could not get it through his head that you can't write a functional > algorithm > for the political process as it is experienced in the real world. > > -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
