I’m half the size
I ought to be, although my shape is twice the size; not like the dog who’s half
the size she thinks she is, and twice the fight. Since half presupposes the
whole, what happens to the missing half? Under stress, we might cut everything
in half. It can work, but only in some ways.
This leads to
decisions. How do you go about reducing decisions to half? We could have half
the number of problems. Take in half as much ambient knowledge. Expect half as
much. Be only half as competitive, maybe half contemplative for a change. Half
and half.
Just as every word in the dictionary can hurt
someone, nearly every word can be made to profit someone. This is how words
lose half their value. The rest is in someone’s pocket.
Failure is simply
your discovery of another way to not do things, and hence is morally neutral. Any
connection between your goodness and success in your enterprises is fiction.
Half as many failures won’t create double the results.
In plague times,
you need all the halves to restore health: half measures won’t do. And justice,
by its nature, can only be whole.
