When Your Luck Runs Out
Mark Twain wrote that it’s better to be lucky than smart. Tacitus wrote of the benevolent Roman Emperor Titus that his ingenium (nature, or intelligence) made him “fit for the greatest good luck.” From this we may deduce that some people are not fit for good luck.
Think of all the lottery winners who blew it all and ended up homeless — there have been a lot of them.
Think of all the poor young women who married millionaires — who turned out to be like Jeffrey Epstein.
Think of all the average Joes who married a beautiful woman who was smarter than he is — and couldn’t handle it.
But I’m thinking of another guy, who was born lucky, and whose nature makes him unfit for office. I would tell you his name but I am sick of hearing it.
Until recently, our country had been extremely lucky, for centuries. Not everyone in it, of course, but our nation qua nation may have been the luckiest nation in the history of the world: Stumbling upon more than 3 million verdant, mineral-rich square miles — bigger than China — thinly populated by people without metal tools, abundantly populated by game animals, protected on two sides by immense oceans.
Then to have a government formed by far-seeing men, aided and abetted by our Mother Country’s longtime enemy, France, which bankrupted itself supporting our revolution, only to stumble into its own, far more violent revolution, as ours concluded.
And on and on.
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