reohn2 wrote:Cugel wrote:I can imagine the pub conversation, down to the last hackneyed cliche!
Cugel
You don't mean the three wise men sat round imperial pints of garlic and porridge ale discussing how to overcome the Franco German expansion?
That's them!
Perhaps the antidote is a long holiday in Bavaria, where they will see both the best and the worst of corresponding attitudes to their own through the Cherman lens. This may at last give them some perspective - perhaps even the ability to shift from their long-held and hoary old thoughts to some with less lichen and moss growing on them?
There is a mode in which a human installs the basic notion that "having my principals" is all about having the same seven beliefs about something from birth to death, never mind what experience suggests may be otherwise. This mental intransigence is regarded as some kind of virue. Of course, it is a terrible, pernicious and highly damaging vice, put there by the divvil, dressed up in a paper-virtue frock.
Cugel