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In my sophomore year of high school, our Humanities class (by which I mean History, but whatever) was covering World War 2. For the section, we were all given a map of a hypothetical world, basically meant to signify europe. Our country, which would be roughly where France is on the map, had sufficient resources to successfully win a war with our neighbors, and we all knew it - however, as I had a deep disdain for my teachers, I opted instead to create a network of alliances, going first to my strongest neighboring country, informing them that they would not be able to conquer the world without bloodshed anyway, inviting them to pool our resources for the peace of the world, etc. I had it all worked out. I was going to achieve world peace in an hour and fifteen minutes or less.
Unfortunately, I wasn't sufficiently quiet with such plan. One of the teacher's pets (and I know pretty well which one) told them all about my "nefarious" scheme to undermine their lesson on the so called geographic inevitability of a second world war, so before I could get my first alliance in they kicked me out of the classroom for disruptive behavior.
I missed the entire game. The one cool thing that happened in that year.
As it later turned out, they had the group in basically Germany (strong army, no navy) refuse all alliances and wage a futile war for the duration, then smugly declared their experiment a success when they lost by professorial decree.
The point? I went up against the true power in that world and lost. Unixmad isn't a video game villain, he's not some Goliath you can David, to verbal a historic noun. He can be reasoned with, but you can't stand up to him. He's still your boss. If he says do something, you do it, then discuss the wisdom of that course of action.
This concludes Office Politics 101. These sorts of destructive actions will happen again. We must be prepared. For more information on earthquakes, please visit the surrounding exhibits. *low hum* |
09-21-2002, 11:50 PM
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