Mario:
They do not want to understand. They are only interested in maintaining their stance as brooding wise men, watching the antics of us fools from a great height, shaking their heads and rolling their eyes in pity. They are, in short, poseurs, daydreaming here, trying to convince themselves, and strangers, that they are tycoons. They will be lowered into their graves, broke, and convinced that they have been treated unfairly by a cruel fate. Indeed, they will blame us for their missing of opportunities. Sometimes, in war, men like these get to be generals, and, like McClellan, lose great battles. They can always marshal the numbers, but lack the courage of desperate enterprise. Thus, as Shakespeare said, "All the voyage of their lives is bound in shallows..." Geneat |
