Opposable Sentiments
Machiavelli's The Prince talks alot about ruling a state and how a Prince should "have no other object or thought, nor acquire skill in anything, except war, its organisation, and its disciplines."
He talks about the need for a Prince to appear to have certain qualities, and to know when to be deceptive and cunning in order to break his word.
I see the reasoning behind what he says; the examples he gives adds substance to his arguments and in-all seems justified. Similarities appear in the current foreign policies of a certain Pacific nation. There is one difference that, with a loud-haler, screams into the crowd from it's soapbox: You forgot the need to avoid contempt and hatred!
Yesterday I discovered my car's change dish lying under the driver's seat. There was coinage still jammed into it. It now appears that the perpetrator(s) were interested in making away with the Mazda. At the time of the incident the fusebox cover was laying at my feet and the wires behind the console seemed more visible. Unsure of their position prior to the incident, I suspect that the car was the target and not my miniscule parking-change. They must have been scared off.
A less khaki-toned shade of my life sees the beginning of Varsity. While most people I know rightfully dread getting back to class - returning BCom students - I'm looking forward to this year. I'm open to the challenges, both cerebral and creative.
The first project is the corporate identity of an architecture firm. The initial austere mindedness at the typographic-centred approach has effervesced into the rich, tang of optimism.
*If anyone has an Amy Hemple collecting dust please donate.
He talks about the need for a Prince to appear to have certain qualities, and to know when to be deceptive and cunning in order to break his word.
I see the reasoning behind what he says; the examples he gives adds substance to his arguments and in-all seems justified. Similarities appear in the current foreign policies of a certain Pacific nation. There is one difference that, with a loud-haler, screams into the crowd from it's soapbox: You forgot the need to avoid contempt and hatred!
Yesterday I discovered my car's change dish lying under the driver's seat. There was coinage still jammed into it. It now appears that the perpetrator(s) were interested in making away with the Mazda. At the time of the incident the fusebox cover was laying at my feet and the wires behind the console seemed more visible. Unsure of their position prior to the incident, I suspect that the car was the target and not my miniscule parking-change. They must have been scared off.
A less khaki-toned shade of my life sees the beginning of Varsity. While most people I know rightfully dread getting back to class - returning BCom students - I'm looking forward to this year. I'm open to the challenges, both cerebral and creative.
The first project is the corporate identity of an architecture firm. The initial austere mindedness at the typographic-centred approach has effervesced into the rich, tang of optimism.
*If anyone has an Amy Hemple collecting dust please donate.
At 22:42 Debaser mumbled incoherently.
1 Comments:
Well, I am glad that you still have the car, and more importantly, the loose change!
While you were reading Machiavelli and "The Prince", I have been reading Warren Chappell; "A Short History of the Printed Word". So what's wrong with Typographic-centricty, huh!?
Chappell says that one of the three strongest feelings he has about printing is "the authority of its impression". When you impress a thought into sheet of paper, it is imparted with a certain immortality and power – people will not refute a printed statement as readily as they might if it were only uttered.
That's why books, like The Prince, are still stirring emotions hundreds of years after their creators penned them. The question I like to think about is "What is the lasting value of this piece of writing?"
Good luck with the upcoming year. Keep your mind open – something that becomes harder and harder with age and experience.
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