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Leader or Tyrant?

"Here's the coin; in tossing it I'm calling both, heads and tails; sure to be a winner!"

Long before Schrodinger conceived of his Cat, Roman's had conceived of Janus and as I write this very Sunday Syrian's can conceive of a future horizon brighter than the bleakness of the past 54 years.

How you interpret Schrodinger's Cat, Janus's Two Faces or the al-Assad Regime is, exactly as you suggest, dependent on personal perspective.

I think, in tossing the same coin as second time my call would be different; in fact, thinking on having formed a firm view, I wouldn't toss the coin. Schrodinger, Janus and Bashar-al-Assad are each figures from history whose attitudes and actions were shaped by who they were, their own characters and not by some external hand of fate.

History is a long running river, our human understanding of which is based on the best stories we have yet been able to tell ourselves about it. Your fresh prosecution of the case for reading 'Julius Caesar' as a group biography has been compelling and won me over.

If the play's the thing, what manner of thing be this play?

Thanks for another grey-cell stimulating Sunday post.

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Thanks Rob!

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