fakeologist wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 4:57 pm
Wonderful as always Peter.
Roger and David are two of the most talented people to ever infect this earth, to draw a reference to the Chief Infection himself, Herr Phillip.
I do not agree. To become famous as “talent” or “most talented,” a potential candidate doesn’t need talent, but a rather large dose of mediocrity. And this is perhaps the most infectious thing in the world.
(Who is, what is “Herr Philip”?)
sharpstuff wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 1:54 pm
A great friend (who still claims to be highly opinionated as I have always been) of mine once said: ‘There are no born leaders, only born followers’.
I don’t really understand how different the meaning of the sentence will be to include the term “born” - but I don’t think it makes any sense to talk about followers if there are no leaders. (Maybe your old friend had Oz in mind.)
But if so, the situation is pretty much the opposite: nowadays there are only leaders and no followers. They are manufactured on conveyor belts and in factories called university (and schools in general).
Maybe they’re the same ones you call followers, but because of their social functions (and because they never really followed anyone), they deserve to be called leaders much more. But of course they deserve this name even more because of their psychological disposition - and this gives one of the main characteristics of the situation.
sharpstuff wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 1:54 pm
I am posting this in Chatbox as I did not really want to start a new thread as this is a particularly opinion piece and as much as I detest any form of ‘politics’ and have never been involved in any ‘voting’ process in all my many years, it may contain political matters.
I have to apologize, sir, but you have not let go of the political thread for a moment. And there’s no reason to be surprised if it ended up colliding with "
The Wall."
(There is nothing natural in fear, nothing in “beliefs” – even in this plural form… etc. etc.)
Sorry for the criticism, but it seemed to me that maybe you are the one who should apologize – in this place - for "
The Wall."
[Admin Warning (SCS): I moved this to the DR on December 6, 2020. Mansur, I’ve just about had it with your posting habits on this forum. The vast majority of your posts consist of half-baked thoughts (when comprehensible) that come across as shin-kicking other members for no discernible reason. Consider this a public WARNING to think your posts through carefully before hitting the “submit” button.]