[timsh11]
timsh's master was considered a very wise man in braelig, and he once
told timsh that if timsh ever found himself unsure of what to do that
he should look around and see what everybody else was doing and simply
do the opposite. timsh thought it sounded a bit simplistic but his master
explained that most often you will find that everybody is doing practically
the same thing. And that, by and large in braelig these many years that
his master could remember, things had been, generally speaking, getting
worse. So logically if most people are mostly doing the same things
in a practical sense, and things are generally speaking getting worse,
then you will likely improve the situation by simply doing the opposite.
timsh did find his master's argument compelling and he resolved to find
a way to put it to use.