知己知彼，百戰不殆。
Know yourself.
Know your enemy.
Hundred battles.
No danger.
Yesterday, I heard a talking head on the internet cite a purported academic study considering who is most likely to survive a catastrophe. Answer: it’s the person who can, most quickly, form an adequate assessment of the actual situation they are in.
Yeah, I heard it on the internet, so it must be true.
By the way, I gave you, above, an accurate character-by-character translation of the famous quote from Sunzi. Some people translate the whole thing to imply that you will win all one hundred battles. That’s a legitimate translation, but, personally, I suspect it’s not quite what Sunzi meant. I think he meant that you may lose some battles but that, after the war has run its full course, if you have been situationally aware, then final victory will be yours.
Facing MAGA 