JUDGING A BOOK ON DANGER BY ITS COVER —“From looks you don’t look like a dange

JUDGING A BOOK ON DANGER BY ITS COVER

—“From looks you don’t look like a dangerous person at all, mr. Doolittle.”—- Anon.

Well. let us test your perception.

There are different categories of ‘dangerous’: 1v1 dangerous, 1v2 dangerous, 1v3 dangerous , up to 1v1000’s, and 1v1000000’s dangerous. Only simpletons LOOK dangerous – because 1v1 dangerous is so easily defeated by numbers.

But let’s look at REALLY dangerous:

Rousseau didn’t look dangerous

Napoleon didn’t look dangerous.

Marx didn’t look dangerous

Lenin didn’t look dangerous

Hitler didn’t look dangerous

Mao didn’t look dangerous

Looking dangerous means you’re “small-time dangerous”.

If you want to get into the big time, you have to BE dangerous. And big time dangerous isn’t visible at all.

We all have a wealth of violence. Some of us are soldiers, sergeants, lieutenants, captains, majors, generals, and theorists of violence. Only grunts need to look dangerous. Only grunts need to be 1v1 dangerous. The rest of us need to THINK dangerously.

(That said i held a knife at my father’s throat to stop the violence. Only reason he died from alcoholism and obesity. )