“[They] got rich by peddling complex financial schemes that.. helped push us into a crisis whose aftereffects continue to blight the lives of tens of millions of their fellow citizens. Yet they have paid no price.. basically, they’re still in a game of heads they win, tails taxpayers lose…
This special treatment can’t bear close scrutiny — and therefore, as they see it, there must be no close scrutiny. Anyone who points out the obvious, no matter how calmly and moderately, must be demonized and driven from the stage.
In fact, the more reasonable and moderate a critic sounds, the more urgently he or she must be demonized.”
The simple statement of Bayes Theorem.
Since the beginning
Not one unusual thing
Has ever happened.
If one accomplishes some good
though with toil,
the toil passes,
but the good remains;
if one does something dishonourable
with pleasure,
the pleasure passes,
but the dishonour remains.
Musonius Rufus
Now,” those Plumbago lips say, “You are going to tell me your story like you just did. Write it all down. Tell that story over and over. Tell me your sad-assed story all night.” That Brandy queen points a long bony finger at me. “When you understand,” Brandy says, “that what your telling is just a story. It isn’t happening anymore. When you realise the story you’re telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan,” Brandy says, “then we’ll figure out who you’re going to be.
Extract from “Invisible Monsters” by Chuck Palanuik
