Strange enough, but not striking, is the difference in workplace cultures. At one of our clients who happened to be a Hospital (no, it wasnt the man who was a hospital), have a salient cultural phenomenon: empathy emails. They are empathy emails not because of the sender's willingness to identify with the rest of the world, but rather the sender's desire for rest of the world to conform with him/her.
Consider the message:
"FRIENDS ARE LIKE BALLOONS [...]. SEND THIS TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS INCLUDING ME! SEE HOW MANY YOU GET BACK".
This email had a signature which foreshadows the kind of upcoming emails from her, if you have an insight to the American culture. The signature goes like this:
"Stop telling God how big your storm is.
Instead, tell the storm how big your God is!"
I am sorry but its the Chewbaca that understands english, and can still roar like thunder, not the storm.
There is another person with the following signature:
"Vision without action is merely a dream.
Action without vision just passes time.
Vision with action can change your life."
This person is not obese, she is FAT.
(contd.)
3 comments:
mundanity! mundane jokes, mundane curiosity, mundane fears, mundane hopes. Mundanity! the most prevalent accompniment to the life form refered to as humans. I say to thee, the seeker of sublime and complex, the bearer of the banner of thoughtfulness and beauty, I call upon thee to leave humanity content with its mundanity for taking it away is only a recipe for chaos and dissarray, that your above-human sublimity loaths. let the mundanity prevail, for the bliss of thy sublime soul.
great neitszche. now step aside. there is little use in the world for over-eloquent nothnigs.
it seems to me, vince, like you are over analysing the little parcels of so-called wisdom people like to associate with.
oh yes, they do associate with those. in fact, i bet anything that they associate with it in such a way that you can probably read them like a book based on those little signatures. theers firs tthe fact that they want a signature to begin with. then the typographical artefices used. the meaning behind the words. and desire to shsare it (to remind themselves of it perhaps?)
let those who would remind themselves of little unimaginative joys do so in the manner of their choice, even if it means sharing it with you!
signed:
"pessimism does not breed creativity for progress"
aah, teapot!
I love your criticism, always. But cant you tell that I am not over analysing? Can you not see that these things really bother me? Why would one want to write about something they do not care about?
Secondly, I never had claimed to be superior than the others. I have nothing against mundane, but I do feel that mundane has to make sense. And as for "pessimism does not breed creativity or progress" - I am not a pessimist - I am a rationalist (if a lable is absoloutely required). I think its complacency that does not breed creativity or progress.
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