Don't Hold Your Breath

As appealing as this may be to some - myself included - it will probably have very little impact in the short term:

“My basic duty is not to cling to office, nor even more so, to obstruct the rise of people much younger, but to pass on experiences and ideas whose modest value arises from the exceptional era in which I lived,” said the statement attributed to Mr. [Fidel] Castro, who is 81.

"Not to cling to office?!?!" He's been jefe for nearly fifty years. He must be speaking in geologic time.

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[bystander]

Maybe if we measure in Friedman Units? Or, maybe if we took the logarithm of time?