“The cultural analog that may be in play is that Bush grew up on television, Putin grew up with chess, and the Chinese Communist Party entertains itself with “Go”. Television provides a ready-made script in a Manichean universe that always has a happy ending. Chess provides unpredictability in an amoral test of competitive strategy, with the object being to simultaneously protect and defeat a king. Go, also called Igo in Japan and Baduk in Korea, is -- like chess -- what game theorists call a “perfect information” contest, where the actions of the opposing player are perfectly visible, while the strategy can only be inferred. The size of the Go board, however, allows multiple strategies to be pursued in conjunction with one another, which gives the game a level of complexity that cannot be found in chess, and the game emphasizes the strategic value of space as well as position.” - Stan Goff, FTW Military/Veterans Affairs Editor; author: Sex & War (Eve's MI Code)
“Most ‘liberals’ are just as neurotic as most ‘conservatives’. We need a new word for those who actually follow the science. Understanding the differences in gene pools is not racism so long as you recognize talent and character where it exists; every gene pool has some, but the ratio determines whether a majority will elect leaders or demagogues.” - Day Brown
“The composition of the Greens seems to be the same as that of the population in general — mainly pieces of drifting wood, people who never think.” -- Pentti Linkola
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