Comments on: Annotated 20-12

By: tlhonmey

tlhonmey — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 22:25:57 +0000

It’s an interesting phenomenon. Quite often an author does something distasteful in their work and a bunch of people quit reading, but then the only ones left to give feedback are the ones who still enjoy it, and the cycle can easily steer the author’s work off the rails and into some zany territory where he’ll find a small but fiercely loyal cadre of the insane to buy his books.

So, I guess the moral is, “Don’t pay too much attention to just your immediate audience.”

By: tlhonmey

tlhonmey — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 22:18:12 +0000

It’s often said that one of the major qualifications for being a good king is to not want the job. Scipio, I think, worries too much that as king he’d have to come up to all the solutions to the problems by himself. But really, half the job of leadership is just knowing who to ask what questions.

By: T

Sun, 02 Feb 2020 21:03:34 +0000

Yeah, and there’s a definite difference between authors being problematic outside the work and authors interrupting their own work to announce their unsavoriest opinions; Sim unquestionably did the latter in “Reads.”

By: Andreas

Andreas — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 18:35:01 +0000

Once Dave’s dead, I predict someone will take sadistic pleasure in re-booting the entire thing into something Dave would have absolutely hated.

Fair’s fair.

By: Athaic

Athaic — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 09:02:34 +0000

Some may argue that, by being fully aware of and fearing the responsibilities coming with kingship, Scipio may actually become a tolerably good king.
As I read it, he is stating that he was not put in the actual position of a king, but was just a glorified thug.
Whether or not he may have the skills for country leadership (and indeed, he was not trained for that), his position was not one where these skills could be put forward anyway.