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ScuzzaMan's avatar

OK it’s not the focus of this piece but I can’t go past that poem without noting that it’s about hubris.

… and hubris calls to nemesis and nemesis always arrives. Not always in our preferred time, place, or manner… but, always.

This too is reason for hope, for never giving in, for never giving in to momentum-sapping despair.

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John Samson's avatar

Hubris can drive momentum, right until it doesn’t. Our patterns aren’t laws. The past is predictive, but every championship career ends. The Covenant trilogy really captures the metaphysical limits of human competence. Humility kneels to that which really isn’t temporal and dependent. His protection being the Truly reliable constant.

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ScuzzaMan's avatar

For pride goes before destruction…

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Joe Katzman's avatar

The "Hypnotize with any TV Set" graphic was the most real thing in a real article.

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Eugine Nier's avatar

I must say in terms of using lots of big words to say precisely nothing, this piece is giving the post-modernists a run for their money.

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SirHamster's avatar

Why advertise your stupidity to your intellectual betters?

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John Samson's avatar

Its presence supports its theory, ironically enough.

Praenominal disorder foreshadows stunted reading comprehension.

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