Interesting article
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syredronningReading People’s Faces - Tattoos, dueling scars, and other rational acquisitions
Also, this paragraph reminds me so badly of Kirk:
Schelling’s 1960 book about the nuclear arms race, 'The Strategy of Conflict', centers around those paradoxical situations when it makes sense to impose limits on yourself in order to improve your negotiating position. His famous "madman theory" holds that a "careless or even self-destructive attitude toward injury... can be a genuine strategic advantage."
Also, this paragraph reminds me so badly of Kirk:
Schelling’s 1960 book about the nuclear arms race, 'The Strategy of Conflict', centers around those paradoxical situations when it makes sense to impose limits on yourself in order to improve your negotiating position. His famous "madman theory" holds that a "careless or even self-destructive attitude toward injury... can be a genuine strategic advantage."
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Date: 2009-12-21 09:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-12-21 10:41 pm (UTC)(About 25% of my body is tattooed.)
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Date: 2009-12-21 11:17 pm (UTC)That's so true to Reboot!Kirk especially. And the way it was phrased in the article reminds me a little of the Joker in TDK &ndash someone who doesn't just fake it but truly doesn't care about his personal safety or longterm gain is not constrained by conventions and "common sense" and therefore fundamentally unpredictable.
I wonder how Reboot!Kirk's criminal youth may shape his later interactions with adversaries who are of that type... (although of course, TOS!Kirk wasn't a sheep either)