Every time someone has the audacity, no, animal-level ignorance, to mention "September 11th" and something about national security in the same sentence, it makes me think of this quote from Edward Norton's character in the movie 25th Hour:
"Fuck the uptown brothers. They never pass the ball, they don't want to play defense, they take five steps on every lay-up to the hoop. And then they want to turn around and blame everything on the white man. Slavery ended one hundred and thirty seven years ago. Move the fuck on!"That is what I feel like saying to anyone still blabbering on about Sept. 11 like it made the world suddenly so much less secure-- "move the fuck on!" Everybody on this (sort of still) green earth needs a copy of "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. If there is one thing you read this winter, make it that book. I think if our society took mathematics more seriously, we'd be a much different country, in a good way. But that's another ramble for another day I guess...
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