A Friendly Reminder
As Among Friends
People who know on direct evidence that their means come short of their ambitions and also know — again on direct evidence — that it will always be so, do not like to be reminded of the fact.
If you feel it necessary and proper, mention their condition in life to such as these. Do it in private or in public once. Leave it at that. One ping only please, Vassily.1
Do not insist. Do not repeat your message. Your intended auditor knows the truth. They don’t want to hear it, but they know it.
Mention the truth, if you feel you should. Do not mention it again, not in private and certainly not in public.
To try to help someone face the truth, in private or in public, once, is one thing. To hound them in private or harp at them in public is another.
If you insist on talking about it in public, or in private, whatever it is, your auditor likely will strike you with every means they have. You will feel pain, perhaps lethal pain.
Regimes who have lost legitimacy, and those who never had it, do not like to be reminded of the fact. They know their end is certain and not to their liking. Insist on reminding them of that fact and they will vent their anger — caused by an objective frustration of their plans — on you.
You do not want that. They do not want to do it. But they will do it anyway because they are in a heat of rage. Unless you can heave more heat, fire, anger, rage at them than they can hurl at you, shut up and let nature take her course. After all, Providence has put you all together for the very purpose of teaching you all to seek rest so that you may radiate serene equanimity.
During recent months, certain bloggers — military and intelligence professionals who recognize what occurs of late between the Baltic, Adriatic, Black, Caspian, and Mediterranean Seas — and on through the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean — insist on repeating, in public, that incestuous, illegitimate regimes occupy New York, London, and Washington and do not succeed with their dreams because dreams are noxious to humankind.
The regimes under examination by these bloggers are uncultured, to be sure. They have cultivated neither their humanity nor their divinity. They are unrefined by intellect and unrestrained by solicitude for the happiness of their countrymen and fellow humankind.
Said bloggers observe, accurately, that said regimes contemplate universal hegemony for themselves in all matters whatsoever everywhere on the planet. They would sit God down to teach Him how to behave and what He must do to win their approval.
After two plus years, with millions hanging on and grateful for their observations, these bloggers’ observations are not news. Moreover, their repetition of these observations — repetitions in public with mounting warmth of emotion — colors these bloggers as insistent.
Insistence is hegemonic activity.
Captain Marko Ramius (Sean Connery) to Executive Officer Vassily Borodin (Sam Neil), The Hunt For Red October.