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 {{maxim|Disdain fashionable things. Especially ideas.}}
-[[Disdain beauty-pageant politics]]. If a political viewpoint seems ridiculously obvious — so simple that even child could grasp its transparent eternal veracity, but somehow it hasn’t taken hold in the world, that’s because it ''is'' ridiculous and childlike. Ridiculous means “deserving of being laughed at”. “Imagine no possessions...” — wait a minute whose grand piano is that? and whose stately home? OH IT’S YOURS JOHN LENNON?
+{{maxim|Don’t be a victim}}. ''Own'' your predicament, don’t whine about it. Be predator, not prey. See also : don’t talk your own book.
-Be predator, not prey. Don’t be a victim. Own your predicament, don’t whine about it. See also : don’t talk your own book.
 [[Beware of shorthand]]: Experts use [[heuristics]] to exploit knowledge they gave already acquired. Charlatans use heuristics instead of it.