the second is war
Ernest Hemingway
If mold continues to multiply after eating half a piece of cheese
what happens when demand exceeds supply?
War is cruelty
The crueler it is the sooner it's over
General William Tecumseh Sherman
Employed "scorched earth" tactics against the Confederacy
If we’re the mold and Earth is the cheese
how many need and/or want how much
where is half way, who’s got what’s left, who gets cut off when
who will compete with who for what’s left
and how is who most likely to win?
I don't care if I follow your rules, if you can cheat, so can I
I won't let you beat me unfairly, I'll beat you unfairly first
Ender Wiggin
Fictional Military Strategist
Can mold collectively prevent the procreation
of a larger generation that can’t be fed by the remaining cheese?
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out
in a technological society
Isaac Asimov
What do you do
if you’re placed in the middle of the desert with someone just like you
with one equidistant bottle of water
and the all powerful entity that put you there
says whomever drinks the bottle of water lives and who doesn’t dies
and if the water is split or poured out both die?
We can ignore reality
but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality
Ayn Rand
Is dissent the highest form of patriotism?
All who surrender will be spared
whoever does not surrender but opposes with struggle and dissension
shall be annihilated
Genghis Khan
Have most revolts been instigated by some with less who want more
against those with more?
Is it worth giving unlimited power to a few
to create perceived safety for many?
Is stability a legitimate reason to stifle justified dissent?
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe
is that none of it has tried to contact us
Bill Watterson
Calvin and Hobbes
Have the educated underemployed
instigated most rebellions?
If need is sustenance and a temperate climate
should you not do what you don’t want done to you
unless you need to?
To laugh often and much
To win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children
To earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends
To appreciate beauty
To find the best in others
To leave the world a bit better
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition
To know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived
This is to have succeeded
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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