“There’s always the chance that politics are involved in politics.” Steve Urquhart
I wonder if Steve chuckled to himself when he crafted that bit of wisdom today.
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Mob Intelligence
I love reading Terry Pratchett, for the humor, but I just discovered an extremely useful mathematical equation in Maskerade to calculate the intelligence of any mob.
“The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters.”
Now if only we had an accurate definition of what a mob is – a definition that catches mobs even when they are not wielding clubs and other weapons.