Barry Beaven

“As Xenophon said, your obstacles are not rivers or mountains or other people; your obstacle is yourself. If you feel lost and confused, if you lose your sense of direction, if you cannot tell the difference between friend and foe, you have only”
― Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies Of War

“From a psychological perspective, there can be returns to focus or concentration when people ignore signals below a certain threshold (called a “salience effect” in psychology) or when they believe in momentum—that success leads to success.”
― Richard P. Rumelt, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: THE BESTSELLING BUSINESS CLASSIC: The Difference and Why It Matters

“The Establishment is amassing wealth and aggressively annexing power in a way that has no precedent in modern times. After all, there is nothing to stop it. There”
― Owen Jones, The Establishment: And how they get away with it

“Americans, who intellectually knew the rest of the world existed but didn’t really believe it.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, False Value