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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Drunk, Dumb, and Lucky

A Recipe for Disaster Unpreparedness

The passage from thinking
we are more intelligent
than other animals because
we have more power
to realizing that we have
more power than we know
what to do with
is to go from
being drunk on power
to the hangover of
being dumb on power
while counting on dumb luck
to see us through

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