- Yeah, yeah, yeah, I’m intimately familiar with the old adage “If you wrestle with pigs, you are bound to get dirty!”, and I stand in general agreement with the veracity of this cliché. Yet, in the interest of truth but chiefly practicality, one cannot hope to ever subdue a pig if you are not ready and willing to stoop down to its reduced level and wrestle with it in its own environment. That is the only way you can hope to defeat a despicable beast–by grappling with it at its own stratum and beating it at its own game. Perpetually taking the high road may be divine and meritorious and biblically recommended, but such a saintly course of action will never force an opponent to pound the mat in submission. Only facing him/her mano a mano in hand-to-hand combat in their chosen place of reckoning will tip the scales and ultimately yield this match-ending objective.
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