Email from Bill
There's this guy I did a bit of growing up with. He lives in the Eastern United States, so I don't see him often. I'm happy to report, however, that we still swap email. He's got a lot of interesting things to say. I've asked him to blog about it, instead of email, but he ignores my pleas.
I also asked him if he minds if I publish his emails and he ignored that as well. I'll take that as a yes. So, here's the first one:
Subject: Quotable quote
Text of the message:
"When the situation was manageable it was neglected, and now that it is thoroughly out of hand we apply too late the remedies which then might have effected a cure. There is nothing new in the story. It is as old as the sibylline books. It falls into that long, dismal catalogue of the fruitlessness of experience and the confirmed unteachability of mankind. Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong, these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history."
Chruchill, at the start of WWII