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Why Fools Should Stay Poor

This isn’t about the oppressed or unfortunate, the weak or minorities, underclass, the censored or martyred. It’s not about ideologies or punishing people you don’t like.

Or, maybe it is.

People are oppressed—both majority and minority—because the most incompetent seem to be the most ambitious. Smart people need to stop being so darn polite and start taking stuff away from fools who only use their stuff to stay in power after normal people would fail. We need to stop arguing with idiots and start eating the idiots’ lunches. Otherwise idiots will keep running the world.  · · · →

Represent

Islam doesn’t represent ISIL. Italy doesn’t represent spaghetti or coffee, nor does Seattle, for that matter. A cockroach does not represent Earth nor Earth the cockroach. I don’t represent America nor does America represent me. Sunday morning doesn’t speak for Jesus nor do pro-Lifers nor pro-Choicers.

Strange and unusual as it may seem, we answer not for each other, but to each other and to God. We all represent ourselves, speak for ourselves, answer for ourselves. Children answer to their fathers just as fathers will one day have to answer to their children.

What’s so hard about that to understand?  · · · →

Devils in Details

The best kept secret about power is the details. Power and vision don’t only come from seeing the big picture, but seeing the small things from miles away. God has power because His eye is on every sparrow.

Details are easy to misunderstand. We often over-rate them, ignore them, neglect them, worry about them, belittle them, obsess over them—but the power brokers work them.

Older and younger generations among the masses bicker over the importance of details. They don’t need to be controlled. They keep themselves weak while lawyers and accountants work the details because they live there.  · · · →

Preparation

Nothing good and lasting comes without preparation. Don’t be in a hurry. We have all been told this, but then we see the speedy success of those around us and immediately start to think we did something wrong.

Should I have promoted myself more? Should I have asked more friends to give referrals? Should I have taken more classes? Should I have been born into a different family?

Self-doubting questions are ultimately about which shortcut to take. But there are no shortcuts to success—only dead ends and deadly cliffs.

So, never fear the speedy rise of thine enemy.  · · · →