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December 30, 2009
The exercise: offer up a
cartoon version of the
range of positions taken
in a "controversy".
DEATH_SCENES
We need intellectual ronin
to "speak truth to power", "Media consolidation"
to wise-up the masses to would seem to be a
the ways of the rich. bigger problem than
the steady pay checks That, and a
When ronin become samurai, of the academy. general
they are corrupted, dumbing-down?
neutralized, bought-out.
RISING_QUESTION
There are plenty of
ronin around. But they're not
as good as the That may be an
ronin of old. illusion: the past is
The samurai aren't easily glorified, the
as bad as all that, present always hard
they still fight to see.
the fight. Or they
pretend
to. When
it doesn't
offend
their true
masters too
much.
Train new ronin.
Create a new, more
benevolent master
to employ samurai. Convert an existing master
to become a philosopher king.
Arm the populace so
that they can defend
themselves. Invent the
long bow. BACK_TO_CENTER
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