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Tao Stoic 130

"Master, why cannot they cut out criminality [72?"

"To be honest, I don't know."

"Master, you surprise me. You know so much!"

"Indeed, I know a little about stupidology, yet, many things I do not know. Look, let's not speak 'science' but just common sense. Let it be the grocer, the butcher. Give him something absolutely unknown, and what do you see? He will first of all look and look, turn it around, look and observe etc. Then, a point comes at which any further looking, further waiting for a 'theory' is senseless. He's seen it all. Then he starts making 'changes' in it, he 'does' something. Now mark this carefully. The thing gets e.g. hotter and hotter yet, he may find a knob or string that slows down the process somewhat BUT not enough. What is the normal next step then? He doubles or trebles the operation. When you turn a knob, but the result is small, you double the amount naturally. If still not enough, temperature going up still, DOUBLE efforts again until the temperature actually goes down. This strategy, so much is clear, is beyond those whose task it would be to MAKE criminality less each year. So it is that criminality actually INcreases each year until we all are criminals, a full 100only certainty we have."


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Ven 2005-01-24