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centuries before, there had been
skiers carving their way downhill through a much colder spring.
"What are you thinking, Chris?" Marissa slipped up beside me.
"Oh& not much. It's good to get away from Denv at times. There were so many
details, and so few
people who seemed to understand that multilaterals and families had few
differences. Discipline and
love those were what held both together.
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"You don't mind being here?"
"I'm happy to be here with you. And I was. Marissa was more than any man
deserved, and she'd
always stood by me, and never tried to manage the business side of things.
There is an urgent call from James O'Bannon.
Marissa looked at me. She could sense the link. "Do you have to take it?"
"I'll be quick.
She kissed me on the cheek. "I'll wait here.
I walked into the small study and flipped on the holo display. I wanted to say
that it had better be
important. I didn't have to. O'Bannon knew better.
O'Bannon's image filled the small study. He wasn't laughing. "I just got a
call from Jakob Flemmerfeld.
Brazelton was arrested and put in custody by Lieutenant Chiang just a few
hours ago.
"Not nanite restraint? No house arrest?" That was bad. Very bad.
"Actually, Brazelton is under maximum security. He's also accepted a plea
bargain, against Flemmerfeld's
advice.
"What are the terms of the plea bargain?"
"For him to reveal what he knows about you. It's more elegant than that, but
they're coming after you,
Chris.
"Start doing what you can.
"We already have. He looked hard at me. "You might think of taking a trip.
Off Earth.
"That would show guilt. What am I guilty of? Building a heritage for my
family? Trying to revitalize
businesses that were crashing? Creating jobs and better transport systems?"
O'Bannon nodded. "I'll keep close to the matter. Nothing will happen soon.
I had my doubts about that. But I smiled. "That's the way it is. I shrugged.
After O'Bannon broke the connection, I glanced toward the door. Then I smiled.
Marissa was waiting,
and there wasn't much else I could do. Not at the moment.
Everyone would be waiting, watching, hoping to push me into doing something
reactive and stupid. That
was the last thing I should be doing.
I opened the study door and walked toward the balcony, Marissa, and the
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Chapter 48
Logic and rationality are like three-edged blades, and two of the blades wound
the user more than the
third wounds the enemy or benefits the user.
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The so-called rational analytical approach embodies a fundamental flaw, a flaw
that has consistently and
historically either been ignored by both rationalists and scholars or
minimized. This flaw is the assumption
that matters, feelings, or occurrences that cannot be described rationally or
quantified objectively are of
such little significance that they will not affect the outcome of the
analysis. Further, such "non-rational"
feelings or occurrences are all too often termed "irrational" and thus
dismissed as beneath consideration.
In attempting to evaluate all too many human situations, in practical terms,
there is indeed a difficulty.
How does one quantify love or hatred, exaltation or depression, patriotism, or
beauty? How can one
present any of these "objectively"? How can one weigh the impact upon human
conduct? Upon
economic or political behavior?
The problem is merely made worse by the rationalists who dismiss those who
cannot present then-case
or argument objectively and rationally. Failure to present a case in rational
terms does not mean that the
case does not exist; it only means that either the presenter cannot provide a
logical format or that the case
is not susceptible to logical presentation. By insisting on an objectively
rational case, the rationalists
impose what can best be called "the tyranny of logic.
Solicitors and attorneys at law have historically been the leading tyrants of
logic. We have seen through
the ages how totally unjust, unmerciful, and irrational laws and judicial [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]