Eight Martini Result

The Strafer (occasional contributor to his blog and curator of destroyers) writes:

WTF?  Evil exists?  We must fight it?  Singing Kumbaya and apologizing will not solve all world problems?  This is refreshingly close to the Bushman, except he does not want to “go pre-emptive” . . . or does he?  Does Robert Gates have this much sway?

Please explain, Fitzroy!  What’s the catch?

I’ll give it a try, Strafer. First, as you should know, answers can sometimes found at the bottom of the glass.

We live in unserious times, which means very serious times lie ahead. Going preemptive is something only serious people do. Whether preemptive action is right or wrong in a particular instance is a different question, but preemptive action is at least a serious act.

Unserious people elect unserious leaders who borrow speeches, ideas, and serious thoughts from other more serious people.  They don’t do preemption because they don’t admit that inaction has consequences.

Let’s approach the problem from a new angle. Martinis were once the drink of serious people, and serious people made martinis with gin. Along came some less serious people who made pretend martinis with vodka and popularized them in the fictional world of James Bond. Proof of slippery slopes followed with chocolate martinis and the post-modern, relativist lie that anything in a martini glass is a martini.

That relativist lie can be applied to empty suits in a variety of professions. Unserious drinkers who prefer some syrupy blue slush with a parasol borrow the trappings of serious drinkers – the martini glass. Unserious politicians borrow the speeches of their more serious counterparts, complete with fighting words and references to evil.

Speaking of Robert Gates, former head of the CIA – yes, this is a leap – Ingo Swann writes about the spy world post James Bond and describes the “eight martini result.”

Well, this is an intelligence community in-house term for remote viewing data so good that it cracks everyone’s realities. So they have to go out and drink eight martinis to recover.

Obama talking like Bush is an eight martini occasion: it cracks everyone’s realities. The people who supported him in the hopes that he would never call anything evil are already at the bar and a few rounds ahead of you. They are easy to recognize. Their martini glasses will be full of blue slush, chocolate, and parasols.

I suggest you have the bartender fill your glass with gin in preparation for the more serious days that lie ahead.

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