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-}}{{maxim|Disdain fashionable things. Especially ideas.}} [[Fashionable idea]]s are the ones that, [[Q.E.D.]], ''did'' come down in the last shower. They lie there, sparkling like jewels in the fresh grass. Most of them will evaporate but one or two will by capillary action, soak into the soil and may nourish the roots of something profound. But — better to wait for that to germinate than drink it off the blades before it can, right?
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+[[Fashionable idea]]s are the ones that, [[Q.E.D.]], ''did'' come down in the last shower. They lie there, sparkling like jewels in the fresh grass. Most of them will evaporate but one or two will by capillary action, soak into the soil and may nourish the roots of something profound. But — better to wait for that to germinate than drink it off the blades before it can, right?
 [[Disdain beauty-pageant politics]]. Resist the urge to virtue-signal about simplistic politics. If a political angle seems ridiculously simple — so intuitively right that ''even a child'' could grasp its transparent eternal veracity, yet somehow it hasn’t taken hold in the world, that’s because it ''is'' ridiculous and childlike. “Ridiculous” means “deserving derision or mockery”.