If you've worked with other designers, you'll know that a designer who says, "Yes, absolutely, I can do that!"--and who*can* do that, and who is *genuinely thrilled* to do that, even if the clients have changed their minds ten times that day--is a treasure more rare than rubies.
We want to make sure he has a nice nest egg for his wedding, so we're revealing the secret of Amanpreet to you, but it goes two ways: You must be as good to him as he'll be to you.
(Once, Amanpreet told me he was sad because a client had been mean to him. I was prepared to fly on a broomstick to that wretch's home and beat him over the head with it. I had to be talked down.)
I'll allow no one to take advantage of Amanpreet's good will and obliging nature.
But if you're prepared to be *good* to Amanpreet, you may hire him.
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This is the reason why I've heard this is okay: 1. We want Russia to be our ally against China and all good allies support their allies when they invade and enslave their neighbors. 2. Ukrainians are Nazis. Or one that I heard about is, anyway.
3. We need to save our energy for the fight against China, especially because that will be coming soon once China sees how indisposed we are to defend our friends.
4. Ukraine's not really a country. It just thinks it is. It's a very weird mass delusion. They're just 40 million Russians preparing to stab their fellow Russians in the eye with a broomstick or any other pointy they have on hand. Who knows why. Russians are weird.
"If it is difficult to look at the twentieth century with a steady eye, so terrible are its crimes, the temptation is great to allow one’s eye to wander. Steven Pinker is, in this regard, one step away from clinical strabismus." cosmopolitanglobalist.com/the-best-of-ti… Part I
"Poorly defined problems very often lead to absurd solutions, the ensuing circle having, in the case of homicide rates, the virtue, at least, of long-term stability." Part II cosmopolitanglobalist.com/the-best-of-ti…
Stay tuned for Part III, today.
Pinker's book was widely hailed as "amply documented" and "counterintuitive."
It was counterintuitive because it was wrong; and the sources collapse on scrutiny.
If you missed it yesterday:
You've doubtless heard the claim, popularized by Steven Pinker, that we live in the most peaceful time in history.
This week @cosmo_globalist, we're running a three-part essay by my father, David Berlinski: cosmopolitanglobalist.com/the-best-of-ti…
Pinker writes, "Believe it or not … violence has declined over long stretches of time, and today we may be living in the most peaceable era in our species’ existence … it is an unmistakable development."
Don't believe it. He's wrong.
By the lights of this Whig theory of history, the world is becoming more and more peaceful, less and less cruel. Humanity is improving, and any intuition you may have to the contrary is a mistake. Since the publication of Pinker's book, these claims have been accepted as truisms.
Journalists, analysts, academics, writers: @cosmo_globalist is looking for people who live in, and can write well about, Taiwan, Central Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. Our writers right now are excessively concentrated in Europe and India:
not that there's anything wrong with Europe and India; there's lots going on in both places, but it's unbalanced. Also: If you live in Russia or China and want to write for us, we'd love to talk to you. We'll let you write under a pseudonym if need be. Iran, too.
This is who we are: cosmopolitanglobalist.com/about-us/
We're looking for people who have a depth of knowledge that you can only acquire from living in a country for many years and speaking the language,
TIERRA DE LOS SUEÑOS - cosmopolitanglobalist.com/tierra-de-los-… One of our readers writes, " The cartels? We [the US] and our weakness for drugs – are the wellspring from which the cartels flow. And we are too weak to do anything about it." I've heard this before:
and I suspect it's partly right--obviously, it doesn't help that the US is the biggest multi-trillion dollar drug suck in the world. But I suspect that even if we turned abstinent overnight, these guys wouldn't say, "Gee, business is lousy" and become peaceful sugarcane farmers.
They'd just flow into every other domain of organized crime (as they have already): human trafficking, extortion, arms smuggling...there's always enough sin in the world to support organized crime. So I'm not as inclined as our reader to blame the US for all of Mexico's problems,
Let's look closely at this "geopolitical logic."
If you-
a) have a history as a grand power; and
b) have "the might to back it up," then
c) You can invade other countries, *and*
d) Those who object should be silent, lest they start unnecessary wars.
But geopolitical logic, as you call it, has obvious correlates.
Suppose, for example, that you're a country that doesn't want to be invaded by its bigger, grander neighbor.
I'm not sure, but I think the set of such countries must be identical to the set of every country in the world (n) - 1 (the biggest). I may be wrong, but I don't think any country wants to be invaded by a bigger one, no matter how grand that country is.