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ed that the usual rules of court etiquette did not apply to Beethoven .E9°1 Beethoven was attracted to the ideals of the Enlightenment. In 1804, when Napoleon's imperial ambitions became clear, Beethoven took hold of the title page of his Third Symphony and scratched the name Bonaparte out so violently th

were named. EFTA00536845 In the Autumn of 18°8, after having been rejected for a position at the royal theatre, Beethoven received an offer from Napoleon's brother Jerome Bonaparte, then king of Westphalia, for a well-paid position as Kapellmeister at the court in Cassel. To persuade him to stay in Vi

d, refined, and learned by each of us. Like Napoleon looking at a battlfield and discovering how to spot the violent potential of industrial war. Or, Einstein reaching the deeper, invisible truths of physics as he left Newton behind: “There is no logical path to these laws,” he wrote later of the leaps that

decisive mark of leadership and success in revolutionary periods. Consider, for instance, Charles, the Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel who faced down Napoleon on the fields of Jena in what is now central Germany in October 1806. Brusnwick-Wolfenbuttel was then 71 years old. He was considered one of the most

rs to one. His men were masters of the subtle techniques of Frederick the Great, tactics that had delivered victory in far more perilous moments. But Napoleon, less than half the Duke’s age at 37, stared across the same undulating land, the same poised armies and saw in the landscape something completely 4

Long Now project, then, was like one of those carefully isolated arctic freezers, where samples of essential grains and DNA from Beethoven’s hair and Einstein’s brain are sunk and iced against the godforbid day in which our basic feedstock or a chunk of humanity has been wiped out by accident or disaster. B

“Space-Time Convergence;” Later geographer David Harvey renamed it as “Space Time Compression,” which is

ciples of power in a connected age. “Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederick,” Napoleon wrote once. “Make them your models. This is the 147 | was thinking: Dan Geer, “Cybersecurity as Realpolitik”, speech delivered at BlackHat, August 6

flawed and fundamentally an act of faith. I mean, Harvey Cox wrote this thing about the market is God. An

are doing), except than when Barrack Obama wants to make it work against them, somehow government can do it really well and really effectively. As Napoleon once said, "never ascribe to malice what can easily attributed to incompetence." If you watch The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, you will know one of