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Growing up in the major metropolitan cities within the United States of America, it is easy to shift from an earthly and immediate perspective to a more "high-level" (in the sense of programming languages, and other abstractions) perspective which all but excludes everything that the world has to offer. Some things, however, are not easily forgotten.

These things, such as aggression, fear, shame, humility, etc are still present within the overwhelming majority of us, and in the new perspective, they've influenced behavior just as they did when people had a more limited perspective.

My understanding of the world, which is constituted by a variety of well-explored perspectives, leads me to believe that phenomena such as the unyielding desire amongst many individuals to exceed, in every regard, the achievements of another -- particularly those of extraordinary talents -- with whom they share a similar interest --- is a result of the new perspective's lack of a proper definition of what an enemy is, and how to gloriously compete with him in this world.

Keeping that in mind, I hereby state that a man must look no further for his enemies, for the most subtle, most dangerous, most cunning and deviant, most impossibly difficult enemy -- the one you know, as soon as you meet him, that you will never beat him. -- is himself.


If you win, you have all the world to do with as you please.