Confidant is easy to get, but good enemy is hard to find

Davon 2022-10-08 16:53:13

Compared to the best enemy, I prefer to call it the best opponent. A hand that is at another angle on the same thing or point of view is not a hostile person.

Calling opponents indicates that this is a contest of equal intelligence, a game of thinking strength, and an engine that spurs one's continuous efforts. We may meet many confidants in our lives, but the best opponents are hard to come by.

He needs to understand the game you play, understand you, but can stimulate you from another angle. Rather than stop at understanding you and admiring you.

Can't help but think of how lonely Zhou Xingchi mentioned invincibility in the mermaid, as if there is no more nostalgic and upward motivation in the world, as if life is like a mixed world. Just like every time the opponent is defeated in a TV series, it's time to end.

View more about Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal reviews

Extended Reading

Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal quotes

  • Christopher Hitchens: The mores of the country were going to hell. And if there was one thing William Buckley cared more about than another thing it would have been that. If we go on like this, abortion will be on-demand, women will have sex with women, the family will be over, the church won't be respected, we will be screwing in the street and frightening the horses, buggery will be legal... And if you'd said all that to Gore, he would've said, Well OK, bring it on.

  • Richard Wald: ABC was the third of the three networks. It would've been fourth, but there were only three.