December 12, 2018
Pocket paradigms
The fraud, the huckster, the salesman are not new phenomena in America;
what is new is that they now so strongly control every estate of our
society. They are a generation filled with postmodern versions of Willy Loman: “He don’t
put a bolt to a nut, he don’t tell you the law or give you medicine. He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine.” America once made things people wanted, said things that needed to be
said and fixed things, including itself, that needed fixing. Now it is
out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. - Sam Smith
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Some say the glass is half full.
Some say the glass is half empty.
The engineer says the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
On the other hand, here is Gloria Clemente's observation from White Men Can't Jump (1992):
Sometimes when you win, you really lose,
and sometimes when you lose, you really win,
and sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie,
and sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose.
Winning or losing is all one organic mechanism,
from which everyone extracts what they need.
No te preocupes, todos estamos bien!
Cheers, Tom
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