"These hard, powerful, brilliantly resourceful sea masters had to sleep occasionally, and therefore found it necessary to surround themselves with super-loyal, muscular but dull-brained illiterates who could not see nor savvy their mastersā stratagems. There was great safety in the mental dullness of these henchmen. The Great Pirates realized that the only people who could possibly contrive to displace them were the truly bright people. For this reason their number-one strategy was secrecy. If the other powerful pirates did not know where you were going, nor when you had gone, nor when you were coming back, they would not know how to waylay you. If anyone knew when you were coming home, āsmall-tini-ersā could come out in small boats and waylay you in the dark and take you over-just before you got home tiredly after a two-year treasure Ā¬ harvesting voyage. Thus hijacking and second-rate piracy became a popular activity around the worldās shores and harbors. Thus secrecy became the essence of the lives of the successful pirates; ergo, how little is known today of that which I am relating. p. 20"
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Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1969)
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