"Henry, there's something I would like to tell you, for what it's worth, something I wish I had been told years ago. You've been a consultant for a long time, and you've dealt a great deal with top secret information. But you're about to receive a whole slew of special clearances, maybe fifteen or twenty of them, that are higher than top secret.
"I've had a number of these myself, and I've known other people who have just acquired them, and I have a pretty good sense of what the effects of receiving these clearances are on a person who didn't previously know they even existed. And the effects of reading the information that they will make available to you.
"First, you'll be exhilarated by some of this new information, and by having it all â" so much! incredible! â" suddenly available to you. But second, almost as fast, you will feel like a fool for having studied, written, talked about these subjects, criticized and analyzed decisions made by presidents for years without having known of the existence of all this information, which presidents and others had and you didn't, and which must have influenced their decisions in ways you couldn't even guess. In particular, you'll feel foolish for having literally rubbed shoulders for over a decade with some officials and consultants who did have access to all this information you didn't know about and didn't know they had, and you'll be stunned that they kept that secret from you so well.
"You will feel like a fool, and that will last for about two weeks. Then, after you've started reading all this daily intelligence input and become used to using what amounts to whole libraries of hidden information, which is much more closely held than mere top secret data, you will forget there ever was a time when you didn't have it, and you'll be aware only of the fact that you have it now and most others don't....and that all those other people are fools.
"Over a longer period of time â" not too long, but a matter of two or three years â" you'll eventually become aware of the limitations of this information. There is a great deal that it doesn't tell you, it's often inaccurate, and it can lead you astray just as much as the New York Times can. But that takes a while to learn.
"In the meantime it will have become very hard for you to learn from anybody who doesn't have these clearances. Because you'll be thinking as you listen to them: 'What would this man be telling me if he knew what I know? Would he be giving me the same advice, or would it totally change his predictions and recommendations?' And that mental exercise is so torturous that after a while you give it up and just stop listening. I've seen this with my superiors, my colleagues....and with myself.
"You will deal with a person who doesn't have those clearances only from the point of view of what you want him to believe and what impression you want him to go away with, since you'll have to lie carefully to him about what you know. In effect, you will have to manipulate him. You'll give up trying to assess what he has to say. The danger is, you'll become something like a moron. You'll become incapable of learning from most people in the world, no matter how much experience they may have in their particular areas that may be much greater than yours."
You are "factually incorrect". I am modded at least +2 Insightful. You replied during a statisticall abberation of negative mods, while ther thread remained open.
I guarantee that the word "annihilation" is a selective translation. In Persian that would be "kharab mesheh" or "fana kardan". Maybe "nabood kardan".
Who can tell? I know this: you take the words of UNTRUSTWORTHY INTERMEDIARIES as gospel, and use them to entrench your assumptions and assert your bias.
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See! That's ONE difference between them and the Nazis!
"Henry, there's something I would like to tell you, for what it's worth, something I wish I had been told years ago. You've been a consultant for a long time, and you've dealt a great deal with top secret information. But you're about to receive a whole slew of special clearances, maybe fifteen or twenty of them, that are higher than top secret.
"I've had a number of these myself, and I've known other people who have just acquired them, and I have a pretty good sense of what the effects of receiving these clearances are on a person who didn't previously know they even existed. And the effects of reading the information that they will make available to you.
"First, you'll be exhilarated by some of this new information, and by having it all â" so much! incredible! â" suddenly available to you. But second, almost as fast, you will feel like a fool for having studied, written, talked about these subjects, criticized and analyzed decisions made by presidents for years without having known of the existence of all this information, which presidents and others had and you didn't, and which must have influenced their decisions in ways you couldn't even guess. In particular, you'll feel foolish for having literally rubbed shoulders for over a decade with some officials and consultants who did have access to all this information you didn't know about and didn't know they had, and you'll be stunned that they kept that secret from you so well.
"You will feel like a fool, and that will last for about two weeks. Then, after you've started reading all this daily intelligence input and become used to using what amounts to whole libraries of hidden information, which is much more closely held than mere top secret data, you will forget there ever was a time when you didn't have it, and you'll be aware only of the fact that you have it now and most others don't....and that all those other people are fools.
"Over a longer period of time â" not too long, but a matter of two or three years â" you'll eventually become aware of the limitations of this information. There is a great deal that it doesn't tell you, it's often inaccurate, and it can lead you astray just as much as the New York Times can. But that takes a while to learn.
"In the meantime it will have become very hard for you to learn from anybody who doesn't have these clearances. Because you'll be thinking as you listen to them: 'What would this man be telling me if he knew what I know? Would he be giving me the same advice, or would it totally change his predictions and recommendations?' And that mental exercise is so torturous that after a while you give it up and just stop listening. I've seen this with my superiors, my colleagues....and with myself.
"You will deal with a person who doesn't have those clearances only from the point of view of what you want him to believe and what impression you want him to go away with, since you'll have to lie carefully to him about what you know. In effect, you will have to manipulate him. You'll give up trying to assess what he has to say. The danger is, you'll become something like a moron. You'll become incapable of learning from most people in the world, no matter how much experience they may have in their particular areas that may be much greater than yours."
No.
"Not forgetting and not forgiving sound like planning skills above my pay grade."
There's a great pic of about 15 Polish legislators, holding paper Guy Fawkes masks over their faces - as the vote is tallied.
http://static.arstechnica.net/2012/01/30/polish-mask-4f26f00-intro.jpg
Strange women, lying about in ponds, is no basis for a system of government.
SkyPe out, routed via Slovenia. Have PhuN.
No.
They are moral, legal and operational equivalents of Inspector Javert.
But they are on track to reach STASI equivalency, in th coming decade.
In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak?
-- Plato
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_Boy_(character)
Who's to say that there's not an occasional "Anon" that also works for the FBI?
Here's how to scare 'em: "We are all moles".
Invoking "Godwin's Law" is tantamount to accusation of "ThoughtCrime".
See: Libya. Syria.
Is Hooray. What a dump for the Hoover's and Peel's plonkers.
Secret policemen are the enemy of Democracy and Liberty. Freedom cannot be defended by means of surreptious authority.
It'd be a good start.
There is an inner space, as vast and unexplored as the outer space. The ability to explore it is in your hands today.
Until that is done, the only thing to find outside is just "more of the same."
Look, Ma! I'm a TORorist!
Really. What has mankind to offer the universe, but its appetites and its quest for novelty? Get your act together back home.
Everything out there is different, except you. Your essential problems are portable.
Newt. He'd be the best US President that China ever had.
Don't worry.
No one is ever going into space again.
There's really nothing there, anyways. Just the fantasies of exploration, by creatures unable to even understand themselves.
You make it so easy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5wE-H7-7PU
This was produced by the Israeli government.
Again, conflating opposition to a colonial, opressive and RACIST government with anti-semitism.
MY EYES!
I looked at that page - and It was like...
Wearing Ed Hardy, on LSD, IN HELL!
It seems to work for the US Federal Reserve Bank...
Citation? References?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Or? Perhaps you are astroturfing.
I want the US out of North America.
You are "factually incorrect". I am modded at least +2 Insightful. You replied during a statisticall abberation of negative mods, while ther thread remained open.
I guarantee that the word "annihilation" is a selective translation. In Persian that would be "kharab mesheh" or "fana kardan". Maybe "nabood kardan".
Who can tell? I know this: you take the words of UNTRUSTWORTHY INTERMEDIARIES as gospel, and use them to entrench your assumptions and assert your bias.