who speaks for reason? reason has no natural voice social media, not!
“… in the first place reason has no natural voice. Mob orators of the sort we have, the Boris Johnson sort, do not speak reason. When you get into that category, your task is to fire up the people with nostalgia, with anger. It’s almost unbelievable that these people of the establishment – Farage, for instance – are speaking of betrayal: ‘I’m betrayed by parliament, betrayed by government – I’m speaking to you as a betrayed person, and I’m a man of the people like you.’”
10 run 1st inning? grand slam in the 10th? You choose … zugzwang at the park!
Atlanta fans for once did not wake to the news that, once again, their team did not go down in flames. (Just what did Sherman start here?)
Because the Braves played at 4:30PM and it was all over by 5PM and Atlanta fans went to bed knowing what had happened to yet another pretty good baseball team.
Later that night, the Los Angeles Dodgers lost in the 10th inning on a grand slam home run.
Atlanta Braves brains considering zugzwang of Oct 9th
10 runs in the first inning or a grand slam in the 10th.
Nice symmetry of the number 10 and it is October 10th today.
This was also the 10th consecutive playoff series loss for the Braves.
Recently I have been made aware of the chess term, zugzwang.
A situation in which the obligation to make a move in one’s turn is a serious, often decisive, disadvantage.
In other words, you have to make a move but all moves are bad and most likely make the situation worse.
So many times in life fit in with zugzwang.
Almost of all sports is.
Tony La Russa once said, “There isn’t much I can do to win a ball game but there are a lot of things I can do to lose a ballgame.”
Or as one writer put it (it may have been Roger Angell), “Go to a bullpen filled with convicted arsonists?”
Zugzwang.
So to the original question.
10 runs in the 1st?
4 runs in the 10th?
Both win or go home games.
Would you rather have it be over almost before it started?
Or snatch victory from the jaws of defeat?
Give up 10 runs in the 1st?
Are you kidding?
On five hits?
Is that even possible?
Who does that?
Who can do that?
Well, besides any Atlanta team.
My Dad often said he liked his team to get a big lead and steadily pull away.
Or a grand slam in the 10th after being up 3 to 1 earlier in the game.
throughout your lifetime dollar amount, property that you have taken
Question 23 on the Gwinnett County (Georgia) Sheriff Department job application.
It reads:
23. If you had to place a dollar amount on the property that you have taken throughout your lifetime, what would that amount be? This amount should also include any theft from an employer, including, but not limited to pens, paper, other office supplies. Please provide the dollar amount below and describe the items taken. If this does not apply to you then list “N/A” as your response.
Successful candidates could receive a job offer that day, the sheriff’s office said.
Deputy sheriff jailers can start with salaries ranging from $36,451 to $41,791, depending on their education level and previous law enforcement experience.
Senior deputy sheriffs can earn a starting salary of $41,538 to $53,569, depending on the same factors.
It doesn’t say if you have to give back any of the property taken over your lifetime.
Fear as mystery unbearable to extreme immeasurable
As FDR said in his 1st inaugural address, “The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.”
Big Bill wrote in Hamlet,
But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? (Hamlet Act III, Scene I)
George Bernard Shaw writes, “Fear will drive men to any extreme; and the fear inspired by a superior being is a mystery which cannot be reasoned away. Being immeasurable it is unbearable when there is no presumption or guarantee of its benevolence and moral responsibility.” (Preface to Saint Joan)
It goes far to explain today’s divisions in society.
We don’t vote for the best platform.
The best candidate.
The best plan.
We vote by what we fear.
We vote by what we are afraid of.
We vote by what we fear.
I don’t know if it was ever any different.
Whenever humans get involved with deciding the right path for human kind, count on humans to muck it up.
In his 1939 Christmas Broadcast, King George VI, the father of Elizabeth II (portrayed in the movie, “The King’s Speech”) quoted the poem, God Knowsby Minnie Louise Haskins:
And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.” And he replied: “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.” So I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night
hold that ideas come by ratiocination, is not rational
I could say that this is a comment on that rational thinking or a reason train of thought is the source of good ideas is just plain wrong.
Had Ben Franklin rationally thought out what could happen when flying a kite in thunderstorm he would not have made his discovery that lighting was electricity.
On the other hand however, NOT FLYING a kite in a thunderstorm is a good idea and had Ben made the choice not to do it base on thinking it all through rationally, that good idea would have had its source in rational thinking.
But I digress.
I could also say that my recent discovery of ZUGZWANG would deny that there are any good ideas, only some ideas that are less worse than others.
It doesn’t make any difference as any choice, any thought, will be the wrong one so be free and make any choice you want.
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