“Renner, I must tell you of a creature of legend.”“Say on.” Renner’s image dialed for coffee. Coffee and stories, they went together.“We will call him Crazy Eddie, if you like. He is a... he is like me, sometimes, and he is a Brown, an idiot savant tinker, sometimes. Always he does the wrong things for excellent reasons. He does the same things over and over, and they always bring disaster, and he never learns.”
There were small sounds of whispering in MacArthur’s wardroom. Renner’s image said, “For instance?”
Renner’s Motie’s image paused to think. It said, “When a city has grown so overlarge and crowded that it is in immediate danger of collapse . . . when food and clean water flow into the city at a rate just sufficient to feed every mouth, and every hand must work constantly to keep it that way. . . when all transportation is involved in moving vital supplies, and none is left over to move people out of the city should the need arise . . . then it is that Crazy Eddie leads the movers of garbage out on strike for better working conditions.”
- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournell (1974) "The Mote in God's Eye"
See also, "West, Cornel", "Yang, Andrew", "Labels, No".
Escapist literature my ass.
Burn The Lifeboats
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Why is is the No Labels crowd who claim no political ideological leanings but actually have them and want a special separate path to victorious victory.
Are the same folks that tell me Atheists is a religion of its own just like the other religions.
We need an Agnostic leaning atheist party next.
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