Be a Prophet

I will say immodestly: I am as penetrating as Norman Davis (my favorite historian). In 2003, I predicted that: (a) the mobile phone market is a temporary fashion that will quickly pass (b) ccc company will fall by 2005 at the latest (d) house prices at Mokotowski Field from sky-high 4 thousand. PLN per m2 will fall to exorbitant 2 thousand. PLN per m2 (then I will buy an apartment).

In 2003, a lengthy article was published in Plus Minus that N. Davis wrote: he claimed that the Second Iraq War would last much longer than the Vietnam War. He explained, among other things, that the desert is a worse place to wage war than the Vietnamese jungle. The conclusions of the article were grim. I read this article on SATURDAY and thought about it ALL SATURDAY AND ALL SUNDAY. I took over. Because I quietly hoped that the Iraq War would end quickly. But here’s monday’s tv news reported: Iraq CAPITULATED and The War IS OVER. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I suspected it was fake news.

Because in light of what I read TWO DAYS EARLIER, something that – according to the world-renowned Historian – was not entitled to happen for many years to come. In LITIGATION, such gigantic errors are impossible. That’s the difference between LITIGATION and ..