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No, I’m not advocating murder…well maybe just a little
By Damo | November 30, 2008
The line between genius and insanity is measured only by success. It’s a credo I live by. I got it from a James Bond film, but I’m sure someone far more worldly has elucidated the point somewhere in the past.
When you think about it, it defines pretty much all of the major advances in human evolution. I mean think about it, flying a kite in a thunderstorm, crazy. Electricity, that’s a big hit.
When you think about it the act of milking a cow is pretty fucking sick, yet we all drink milk and other dairy related products on a daily basis.
These crazy acts are now regarded as genius simply for the fact that they worked. The ones that did not are cast into the deep crevasse of forgotten dreams, anathema simply because they failed to thrill.
Albert Fish once drilled a hole in a persons head and poured chemicals in it in an attempt to make a zombie. It didn’t work and he was tried and executed. Had he actually made the zombie? Who knows, maybe we’d be praising him for his advancements in cheap labour. With a different chemical ratio, a more robust subject, a kinder god, if he had any of these we may well be handing him a Nobel Prize right about now. When you think about it he killed very few people in his attempts at chemically induced necromancy. Nobel himself invented dynamite, which continues to kill millions to this very day.
The key? Success.
So go out there and try something. Be a little crazy. Just make sure you get a positive result.
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