My lecktchur on #skininthegame: No guts no glory, no risk no victory,
adapted from Racine: " A vaincre sans péril on triomphe sans gloire", itself adapted from Seneca:
Ignominiam iudicat gladiator cum inferiore componi et scit eum sine gloria uinci qui sine periculo uincitur...
I mean Corneille
Trishank @trishankkarthik summarized the tawk in a series of tweets: just note that I prefaced (par.) "as a scholar I don't want to a good speaker, good speakers are usually charlatans"
Someone finally got it. They are all weak (both sides), insecure, lacking in grandor, and it’s a shame we are dragged into this s***t. America deserves much better.
This is not a job interview for auditor in chief at the local utility company. This is a lifetime apptmnt as a justice in the Supreme Court. It entails tough decisions. Very tough decisions.
Gabish?
The only person who showed spine inthe episode was Lindsey Graham. I hate him. He is a neocon. He is an interventionist. But he showed spine.
Where a 100% left wing crowd agreed with my message:
+ Localism, bottom-up
+ Statism is rent seeking by insiders, academics, & cronies
+ No enterprise without #Skininthegame
+ No abstract scale-free universalism
A different reaction than the one by the statist-militarist "left"
Journos @FranckGenauzeauare clueless & cherrypicking. Lebanon is currently greening, >150,000 additional Cedar trees at higher level plus rising treeline.
1) Cedar story is missing the success of new growth across the mountain. 2) @FranckGenauze has never heard of cherry picking/sensationalism/sucker alarmism.