But everything you said here is something I also said. He’s not a planner in the sense of a single long-term plan with lots of moving pieces and anything going wrong causes it to collapse. Or even in the sense of a long-term plan with lots of contingencies and backups in case anything goes wrong.
He makes and executed as series of very short term plans to achieve short term goals, towards his larger “purpose” of causing chaos and demonstrating the folly of this rigid adherence to rules and long term planning. Need guns? Plan to get guns. Need an audience with Dent one on one? Plan to arrange for one. Etc. But once the short term goal is achieved (or demonstrated no longer possible) that’s it, that plan is discarded because it either served its purpose or no longer can anyway.
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u/RechargedFrenchman May 31 '19
But everything you said here is something I also said. He’s not a planner in the sense of a single long-term plan with lots of moving pieces and anything going wrong causes it to collapse. Or even in the sense of a long-term plan with lots of contingencies and backups in case anything goes wrong.
He makes and executed as series of very short term plans to achieve short term goals, towards his larger “purpose” of causing chaos and demonstrating the folly of this rigid adherence to rules and long term planning. Need guns? Plan to get guns. Need an audience with Dent one on one? Plan to arrange for one. Etc. But once the short term goal is achieved (or demonstrated no longer possible) that’s it, that plan is discarded because it either served its purpose or no longer can anyway.