Baking is not just about following recipes, it's about understanding the ingredients and how they work together.
The mass media are anti-mediatory and intransitive. They fabricate non-communication—this is what characterizes them, if one agrees to define communication as an exchange, as a reciprocal space of a speech and a response, and thus of a responsibility.
Success in farming comes from understanding both the land and the people who work it.
The only way to keep the small folk loyal is to make sure they fear you more than they fear your enemies. 
I stand up for what I believe in and a lot of the time that can be against what the norm is or what people expect of me.