Military Industrial Complexity
The thing about a hydra is when you cut off one head two more grow in its place, each one perfectly formed and sporting adult teeth. And boy are they mad. But for as far back as anyone can remember that’s been our policy—cut off heads!—so we go on swinging and slicing and the heads spring back and eat up our slow ones and sometimes our fast ones and all the while the hydra keeps growing. Now it’s as big as Rhode Island, whatever that is. If we keep cutting off heads at this rate, say a hundred a day, in six months the thing will have—but oh, we were never any good at math. To tell you the truth, there are benefits to being on the front line. Our moms get to see us on TV, sometimes alive, and every day we get an encouraging email from the folks who make the swords.