Humpday Haiku: Wizards First Rule

The Wizard's First Rule:

works with modern politics

rather well, really.

For those that don't know, The Wizard's First Rule comes from the book Wizard's First Rule, the first book in the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. It's recently been adapted (somewhat entertainingly, but still poorly) in to a TV series called Legend of the Seeker. Having starting watching it, I felt compelled to re-read the books (at least the ones I got up to before I got tired of the overall series). I'm 3/4 through Wizard's First Rule and it occurred to me that a lot of what has gone on the past 10 years or so, politics wise, applies all too well with the Wizard's First Rule, like all the policies pushed forward through from terrorism scares and the incredibly hateful lies that get spread about President Obama, hell even some of the stuff said about McCain and Palin during the last two months of the election race apply as well. There's all this stuff floating out there when it comes to politics that this easily fits in to, it's almost scary. Will people 500 years from now sort of look on Wizard's First Rule as a very long philosphical allegory, like The Stranger or The Prince? Well, who knows, we won't be around for it.

This is the entire text of the rule, but I've bolded the most important passage, both for the book AND my point. I don't completely buy in to the use of stupid in this context...unknowing or ignorant would be more fitting in my book, but it wasn't my book...it's Goodkind's. Heh.

"People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool."

Hey guys, don't forget I want questions. I've got a couple, but I want some more. They don't have to be personal, they can be esoteric or advice or whatever.