Anything Considered: Petty Politics

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Petty Politics

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

"It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured."
[TACTICUS, in Agricola]

The bad and good of man are so oft' intwined in everyday circumstances that I wonder if petty squabbles are a thing from fate. That something so harmless - so typically a bureaucratic-waste-of-time - can degenerate into bad blood and unity in affront is frightening to behold. Worse, I am in ways the cause and passive perpetrator of this comic scene and this leaves me with a pain in the ethical backside.

Indeed, age and sophistication teach us how to be foolish men.

posted by Jared
1:28 PM

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