Three rules for observing history:
- no such thing as a zero sum game
- you can't push on a rope (the mystical principle)
- any force given long enough turns into its opposite, or ... things bite back
Arod, rhymes with Herod (no relation), an eccentric, immanently agoraphobic, former gadabout, gay San Franciscan who enjoys books, fine spirits, walking, rhetoric (in the classic sense), aquaria, baseball, history, photography, writing, dogs, and friends ... not in any particular order. I hold a Ph.D. in Malay/Indonesian Language and Literature from Cal, 1998, and I work at a major research university (MRU).