I realized that for the past few days my blog is filled with various comments, remarks, and opinions about books or movies. I'd like to stray a bit from that habit and perhaps begin with relating to the larger picture of the themes from the books that i had been reading and try to relate that to common understanding. You see. Regardless of the genre of the books that i read, all of it has to do with one vital theme: mistakes. Either as a blunder, a mea culpa, a malignant intent to create failure, or an inadvertent attempt to produce kindness or rectify fault that eventually further the vicious cycle, mistakes harm. They are pernicious, scurillous, and frustrating. In the end, most of us react with temper, or stood in silence, or wait until the storm settles to let our stoicism and forbearance demand the succumbing to its pain. I guess i won't be discussing the emotional baggage that comes with mistakes being made. Rather, the emphasis should be how and why mistakes happen in the first place. Most of my books are about war where people with decision making authority reach a certain conclusion where certain acts has to be decided in order to create change, or preserve the status quo. I realized that in many accounts in the books, these brilliant and experienced fellows are apt to produce mistakes themselves. Out of loyalty, fear to disappoint, facts that got mended within the haphazard bureaucratic red tape, or an obstinate ideology that is persistent without considering the due regard of circumstances. Let's talk about an example. The recent financial crisis that stormed the developed world two years ago. As i raced the book by Mike Lewis The Big Short, it appear that countless warnings had been sounded a couple of years before the hurricane hit New York. It's not just the unsoundness of the subprime market, but the succession of falling dominoes that represent big institutions which stood in solidarity as it march to fight the inevitables. They were too stubborn, blinded to see the truth, they create lies or deceptions to guard against major collapse. They had billions at stake and to retreat from the battle is to not to simply to surrender victory, but to destroy their own army as well.