![]() ![]() That they are rarely prevented has more to do with our inattention, cowardice, or ambition to ride his coattails than with his particular skill. Neither Hitler nor Churchill, neither Pol Pot nor Abraham Lincoln ever did anything they hadn't told us and shown us they would do. Thus, it should not surprise us that every would-be dictator, tyrant, conqueror, prophet, colonizer, politician, artist, and dog-catcher in history clearly signaled his intentions long before he acted and in plenty of time for others to prevent them. ![]() Every aspect of our being is shaped for the sharing of information - through speech, gesture, facial expression, posture, and every other deliberate or inadvertent sign of emotion and intent. Human beings are not designed to keep secrets.It deals in hypotheses, which are never fully and finally correct. What is opinion? A belief we expect other people to argue with. What is faith? A belief that we hold so strongly that we act as if it is true, even though we know there are many who do not believe it. What is knowledge? A belief that is shared by all the respectable people in a community, whether there is any real evidence for it or not. If only we knew which half, we'd have reason to be proud of our intelligence. People know many things, and half of them are wrong.It is the second book (out of two) in The Empire duet, following Empire. Hidden Empire (2006) is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card. ![]()
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