{"id":42536,"date":"2015-01-08T00:19:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T00:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42536"},"modified":"2015-01-08T00:19:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T00:19:56","slug":"smiley-on-defeating-ideologues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42536","title":{"rendered":"Smiley on defeating ideologues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; with application to today&#8217;s tragic massacre in Paris, to IS, AQ, Breivik, whoever ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/fanatic-secret-doubt-Tinker-Tailor.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/fanatic-secret-doubt-Tinker-Tailor.png\" alt=\"fanatic secret doubt Tinker Tailor\" width=\"602\" height=\"338\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/fanatic-secret-doubt-Tinker-Tailor.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/fanatic-secret-doubt-Tinker-Tailor-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s <strong>George Smiley<\/strong> describing <strong>Karla<\/strong>&#8216;s fatal flaw, in the crucial scene from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tinker-Tailor-Soldier-Gary-Oldman\/dp\/B0059XTTW8\">Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy<\/a>, the film version with Gary Oldman as George Smiley.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are not so very different, you and I. We\u2019ve both spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another\u2019s systems. Don\u2019t you think it\u2019s time to recognize there is as little worth on your side as there is on mine? Never said a word. Not one word.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s how I know he can be beaten. Because he\u2019s a fanatic. And the fanatic is always concealing a secret doubt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Le Carr\u00e9 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tinker-Tailor-Soldier-Spy-George\/dp\/014312093X\/\">book version<\/a> has it a little differently, FWIW:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And if you want a sermon, Karla is not fireproof, because he&#8217;s a fanatic. And one day, if I have anything to do with it, that lack of moderation will be his downfall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonus: Smiley on symmetry and asymmetry:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Smiley speaks to Karla<, wishing to turn him:\n\n\n\n<blockquote>We are not so very different, you and I. We\u2019ve both spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another\u2019s systems. Don\u2019t you think it\u2019s time to recognize there is as little worth on your side as there is on mine? Never said a word. Not one word.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; with application to today&#8217;s tragic massacre in Paris, to IS, AQ, Breivik, whoever ] . . That&#8217;s George Smiley describing Karla&#8216;s fatal flaw, in the crucial scene from Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the film version with Gary Oldman as George Smiley. We are not so very different, you and I. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,664,526,483,52,1078,1047,210,67,436,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-qaida","category-breivik","category-charles-cameron","category-extremists","category-france","category-is","category-isis","category-islamist","category-movies","category-psychology","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42536"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42590,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42536\/revisions\/42590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}