Post #11003 by Texirish on the Berkshire Hathaway board

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Wake up, sheeple. The powers have been lying to you for their own ends. What everybody is telling you is suspect. Don't fall for their lies.

The real, unknown, secret truth is ... most of what the government says is actually right in most G7 countries. Fallible? yes. Occasionally weird or even misguided? Sure. Boring? Inevitably.

And:

There are no secrets which involve thousands of people.

Perhaps my favorite hero is a man, Andrew Marshall, largely unknown to the world. He was a man, much like and competitive with, Charlie Munger. Extremely intelligent, self-educated in a broad range of subjects, and worked mostly behind the scenes. He was the "grey eminence" mind behind US defense policy from Nixon to Obama. Perhaps his most famous quote was:

"There is only so much stupidity one man can prevent."

But Jim keeps trying.

Thanks Jim.

Tex

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