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Even if you have a difficult season, you still believe the following year will be better and a good one.
I believe in legacy. And I believe in making the radio sound better. If I gotta listen to it, I want it to sound good.
I'm pretty conservative. I believe that buying good quality is a good investment. I buy fewer things but of better quality.
I believe that if you want to do a good job at something, then you're always analyzing the job that you've done to see if you can do it better.
I believe in immigration. But I feel people think it would be better if there was an Australian-style points based system so we could actually get a good system.
I believe Costco does more for civilization than the Rockefeller Foundation. I think it's a better place. You get a bunch of very intelligent people sitting around trying to do good, I immediately get kind of suspicious and squirm in my seat.
Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.
Machiavelli did believe that it was better to appear to be good than to be good. If you're good, you're just too vulnerable, but if you appear to be good, you get all the benefits plus you can be sneaky and, when necessary, stab someone in the back.
It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.