Saarputin
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Saarputin
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What is a man, but a miserable pile of secrets?


The Count of Monte Cristo has been voted the most American hero in French literature. (In a poll I conducted:) 1. Edmond Dantès is destroyed by the establishment not because he did anything wrong – but because he was about to succeed. Three mediocre men find it convenient that he disappears. This is not villainy. It is the European system operating as designed. 2. He does not petition for justice. He does not appeal to institutions. He builds himself — from nothing, in a prison cell — into something the system has no category for. The Château d’If is his Stanford, his Wall Street, and his boot camp, all at once. 3. The fortune is not inherited. It is found, claimed, and deployed. He has no bloodline the establishment must respect. So he buys his way in, masters their codes faster than they learned them, and uses their own rules as weapons. This is the American founding myth in a French waistcoat. 4. The revenge is not hot. It is architectural. Years of patience, precision, and methodical excellence – each enemy given exactly enough rope. He does not rage against the system. He becomes the consequence. 5. Every other hero of French literature is tragic, compromised, or absorbed. Dantès alone wins completely, on his own terms, without surrendering who he is. The European novel teaches you why the system always wins. Monte Cristo is the exception – which is why it feels American. 6. “Wait and hope” — his closing words — are not passive. They are the most aggressive possible stance: the decision to outlast, outthink, and outlive the corrupt establishment that thought it had finished you. 7. America was built by people who had been finished by someone else’s establishment and who decided to build anew from scratch. They recognized the Count immediately. The French invented him. The Americans understood him.






Some say incompatible. I’d say inseparable.













Every genocide of the 20th century was preceded by weapon registration and confiscation. This is not a slogan. It is a documented sequence: Armenia, Germany, China, Cambodia, Rwanda. Registration precedes confiscation. Confiscation precedes worse.




















NY sees dramatic exodus of US millionaires - causing nearly $11B loss in tax revenue: study trib.al/XRS6Ndj

















