| 'The Pen is mightier than the sword' |
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| A simple statement, seemingly harmless.
Sure, you get comedians who say that the sword would need to be very small, and
the pen very pointy. The problem arises when you get cynics saying that you could
use the sword to simply decapitate the writer, leading to other cynics saying that
the writing could help avoid such senseless violence. It is at this point that
the general public realise that nobody likes a smartarse and set about the cynics
with pens and swords, each mightier than the other, leaving the cynics quite emotionally
affected and quite dead, although perhaps not in that order. |
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| The solution to this whole sordid mess came about with the computer: it might
be said to be mightier than both. The sword-wielding barbarian finds he knows not
who to behead for the offensive comment about his home village, and the pen-chewing
scholar doesn't know where to address his letter of complaint. Therefore they both
must sit down at the computer, where the barbarian learns the joys of explaining
his point rather than leaving a trail of bewildered corpses in his wake, and the
scholar learns the efficiency of the keyboard and stops wasting precious paper
and inks on insightful marvels that nobody reads. And so everybody is happy,
apart from the pen-makers and blacksmiths, who set about each other in a great
battle to try and reignite interest in the whole debate, but found themselves
widely ignored through the fact that everyone else had neglected to eat. |
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| There was a point to this, but it escaped my mind. If found, please insert
into a fridge, inside an envelope marked 'Beware of the Dancing Mongoose.' It
shall find its way to me eventually. |
