I AM CYRUS. PLEASED TO MEET YOU.

Thank you for the comment on my hiatus notice.

ALSO LET ME JUST BE THE FIRST TO SAY I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS RELATIONSHIP.

as Demyx muse screams into the night sobbing wildly

I LIKE A LOT OF THINGS

I DERP FREQUENTLY

I play a lot of rpgs. Also I listen to a lot of music. Especially classical and electronica.

Chopin is my home skillet bake.

I ENJOY SMT AND KH AND LOTS OF THINGS

WE HAVE SO MUCH IN COMMON

Also I really like old books and lots of things about myths and magic and gods and heroes and yeah.

AND YEAH BACH IS PRETTY LOVELY

SCREEE BUT THE FIVE LEGENDARY GREEK TALES THO

AND also Dante and Chaucer and Cousteau snnd Verne and screeeeeeeee

I swim in a sea of old books. My room has more old books than shelves.

I'd say old, but not like ancient like Chaucer or Mallory...

Cats tho

Animals in general though

I am down with some. There's a few volumes in one of the shelves that's an anthology of greek philosophy.

I'd say I'm more fond of Machiavelli than Epi

...oh.

That's what I get for looking away for a minute.

I enjoy the influence of his ideas concerning Meritocracy.

As I understand the social consequences of a meritocracy make it easiest to explore the larger scale applications.

The idea that each person has a path to success and prosperity that can be granted by their innate talents makes for a fantastic way of running a system as long as you have the education and training to

back it up.

That's the moral dilemma, yeah. But one of the things I like about Machiavelli is his pragmatism on human nature. Sure he was vehemently angry at the society around him and the relationship between politics and

money (hahahaha renaissance cape and capote politics oi)

But if a true meritocracy exists it would require a degree of institutionalized professionalism. And assuming the psycho-social implications would fall true.

You'd have people 'naturally' able to maintain distance from the position and level headed enough not to fall prey to bias.

It's difficult from an individual standpoint, ironically enough, but if you look at society as a whole from a macrosmal perspective it could be instituted fairly easily with the right elements.

Mmmm.

I don't really like the implications of Social Darwinism. Especially in it's modern uses. It's awfully fatalistic.

Oh, you have a perfectly valid point. And it holds. It's nearly impossible to divorce people from personal motivations.

Greed is a base human drive, you can't remove it from people completely.

But with a good system of education and training it's possible to provide people skills and training to overcome the temptation.

That's the clincher in a meritocractic world.

Can experience and education teach a person to remove themselves from the situation.

Hmm. Indeed.

No system so far has managed it.

IT'S OKAY I AM SUFFICIENTLY BEGUILED.

YOU HAVE BAMBOOZLED ME.

I AM ALSO AN IDIOT DON'T WORRY.

LISTEN.

WE ARE ALL BBC SHERLOCK. YOU DON'T USE THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND IT ISN'T BAD TO THROW OUT WHAT YOU DON'T USE.

....Molten gas.

...oh, that's better.

I thought I saw the word gas there.

Psh.

Who needs excess ls.

They're for losers and charlatans.

Debutantes.

Wait what hold on.

Not debutantes.

AHHHH

THERE'S A WORD AND I KNOW IT AND IT STARTS WITH DEBU- AND I'VE FORGOTTEN AND IT'S A SYNONYM FOR JERK AND BUH

ALAS I MUST AWAY TO SLEEP BUT I AM EASILY REACHED AT THE FOLLOWING AIM

YES

Also I've had A STUPIDLY LONG DAY AHAHAHAHAH