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Originally Posted by nostatic
I'd like to keep this out of parf. Been looking around at the world and I am thinking that our problem isnt left or right, but rather that we no longer are a nation (world?) of doers. Instead we watch. Watch sports rather than play them. Watch politics rather than participate. Dispose instead of fix (machines and people).
Maybe we've always had the same percentage of doers (they're still around) and watchers but seems at some point the world tilted. Has the criticisms of tv when it first arrived on the scene finally come to roost? Or are we just doing different things now, living in the digital world?
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Oh yes, my goodness...you betcha. That is how an old fart like me keeps employed even when I really want to be retired, because the younger folks would rather keep up a solid circle jerk rather than actually doing the work.
My team has adopted a Walt Disney line....
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
....and people are offended. They say I am not being "nice". My advice back to them is that if they want "nice", go buy a puppy, we are here to get ***** done and they either help make it happen, watch it happen or go back to their offices and wonder what happened.
It frustrates me almost beyond belief....I fear the educational system has failed these guys big time. I mean, they are so totally risk averse and seek to avoid failure at all costs, even when the effort spent to avoid failure is far higher than the effort to make a good solid attempt.
Anyway, I keep charging stupid rates for what I do in the hope that companies will tell me to take a hike and they just keep paying.
I am starting to feel (slightly) guilty....sigh.
D.