From: pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net   
      
   On 1/25/2014 7:10 AM, haiticare2011@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Phil:   
   > There's a story told about the Emperor Napoleon: when a particularly   
   > inept general was accused of treason by his colleagues, Napoleon   
   > replied, "Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by   
   > incompetence."  (I don't have the original French quote handy.)   
   > ===================   
   > Well, there you have the dichotomous arguments about the world's ills - They   
   are either due to deliberate malevolence or systemic dysfunction. Or both   
   together. There is a third view, held by the Greeks, but pretty much out of   
   favor today - namely,    
   possession by bad daemons. These non-material creatures, "daemons of the   
   Kosmos," are good and bad. The Greek word, eudaemonia, means to have a set of   
   good daemons.   
   > So, how can we explain Napoleon going off to Moscow? Incompetence? Desire to   
   destroy his army? Neither.   
   > And, like Napoleon, we seek the simplest explanation - that there was a   
   daemon, and that daemon got him by the ankle.   
   > jb   
   >   
      
   That's not at all unlikely--when we start believing our own propaganda,   
   we're sunk.   
      
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