Where have all the Hemingways gone?

So I used to think that Hemingway and Faulkner lived the greatest lives. These men and some others went out an experienced life and also wrote glorious novels along the way. And as I sit here drinking scotch and enjoying the burn of my post work out high, I feel like as great as it would be to follow these writers those days are over. Times change and the world turns and all that blah blah wordy nonsense that basically means things don't stay the same. As much fun as it would be to be that person it isn't applicable anymore and that's okay. The question I find myself wondering is who or what has taken the place of the greats. Is it as simple as taking in a libation after vigorous excessive? I feel like the next greats are most likely very different and that doesn't mean it is a bad thing. I mean some of the all time greats lived lives that resembled Charlie Sheen.

Where Do We Go From Here?

The beginning is the start but where to we go from there? The middle? It seems like a short trip to straight to the end. But what does any of that mean? It means that we get to the beginning very easily. In fact we can get to the beginning without ever getting out of bed. And for that and a few more reasons is why most people never get passed the beginning. It is easy to get started but once you get going and it takes some sort of physical or mental activity it is game over for those people. So let's try and break the trend and move passed the start and on to the next part. Even if we have no idea what the next part is.

How Many Times?

How many times does it take to be come an expert at anything? When the credits role in the movies do we not see what hard work happens next? Making the choice to be great is the beginning but where does it stop? Or does it ever even stop? Once you break down walls and reinvent your self it is just over? How many times do you have to work on your craft to be the best?

The Price of Silence

What is the cost of silence? Or rather what is the opportunity cost of silence? So let's back up a step. In college I took Economics (actually I took three different Econ classes because it fascinated me) and one of the terms that they drilled into our heads from the onset was opportunity cost. In the simplest terms and the most convenient definition opportunity cost was described as the thing you give up to get something. I always remembered this way, if investing your money in company A would net you a $X profit. However while that money is tied up you could use it for another investments. So the opportunity cost of $X profit is the other things you could do with the capital.

So circling back around. The cost of silence is one thing but the opportunity cost of it is quite another. What could you have done while you sat in silence? What do we give up when we are silent? To be continued,..

What Did You Think?

Why wouldn't it be so inclusive? The idea is that a dystopian government always fails when a revolutionary unravels everything. But why wouldn't the totalitarian regime have fail safe against it in place? Would it be so difficult to have several false rebels in place to make any upstart revolutionaries spent years working for nothing. Or the far more real possibility of pacifying anyone and everyone as a sheer prevention of any upheaval. I guess the question I am really asking is why is the bad guy so inept? I can accept that the villain always loses but why are they so stupid?