"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery."
--Octavia Butler, The Parable Of The Talents
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which are you?
Do you really think it has much to do with you being American? Are you really a simple reflection of those in power?
That's MY take on it.
And yours is...?
Not so bleek. I'd like to think of myself as more of an individual. I can be judged on a global level in those terms I suppose, but I would consider myself none-of-the-above.
That's cool.
Do you know who Octavia Butler was?
sci-fi writer Right?
Yes indeedy.
I culled the quote attributed to her from another source. I found it fitting. The source was a blog which posted about her recent passing.
I've also discovered that Don Knotts and Dennis Weaver died recently.
Knew about Don Knott's, but missed out on Dennis Weaver. So sad. But what about you?
What about me? Do I know who Octavia Butler? What is it that you ask?
Very mysterious. Choosing to identify yourself through phrases and other people. and you?
I think it's mysterious to post anonymously on blogs... ;-)
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