But then, only pale, puny people go crazy, while many,
many romantics reach exalted positions later in life.
__ "Notes from the Underground", Dostoyevsky
cgrimes at rawbw.com wrote:
-- / And then there are my experiences inside community organizations absolutely reif with intrigues, petty, mostly egotistical power plays, slow burning betrayals, sell-outs, kings and queens for a day, and lesser gods of all sorts---really a circus of fools, more than the idealized grassroots political democracy. I used to shutter at the idea that any of my acquaintances, friends or enemies in these orgs would ever get a hold of any established political power, because real democrats were an extremely rare breed in these places. / --
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