Will No Other Vice Content You?

One of the reasons why the Empire collapsed, the Turks knew well the secret of the human heart: personal ambition. In order to get anything through official channels - you had to grease your way up shedding gifts to just about everyone.

As Conrad has shown, each of us has a little despot crouching inside, more ready than not to rear up and have his way.

If at 18 I believed everything is philosophy, today I can, with equal gusto, say that everything is - psychology. You almost wish one could find a world leader wise enough to say: Not me, I want to be an advisor merely.

Written having discussed the world at 2035, thanking God I quit weed.