Subject: Re: Nagging Naggum From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 14:30:06 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3219229804300069@naggum.net> * "Janos Blazi" <jblazi@hotmail.com> | It is wonderful that you can take really deep looks in the characcter of | some people. Yes, it is surprising how much you can only learn about people after you poke their eyes in, stab them the back, rape their children, kill their cat, burn down their homes, etc. You could almost mistake people for normal until you take a _deep_ look into their character this way. It is much easier with the very shallow: They are exactly the same all the way down, and they _really_ believe everyone else is, too, and that you actully learn something useful about other people by teasing them. There are few so shallow people. Most of them cannot even _understand_ what it means to feel passionately about anything, least of all flakey stuff like freedom, rule of law, standards, trust, or, indeed, agreement, which they think is the same as truce. /// --