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Bovine Failure
[ 2 minute read ]
Isn't it sad how there are people who pretend to know stuff or be competent at something just to save face. Pride goes before a fall has never been truer than when there are opportunities to learn from mistakes that bring no shame or cost to the tyro or experimenter, and those opportunities are not taken up because we think the world will laugh at us as we learn. I have been in a certain geographical area of England in which I found it is common for the local folk to nod and say they understand when it is clear that everything I am saying is going right over their heads. I am not maligning an area and intimating that the locals are thick; most people don't understand what I am saying because I am not good at explaining things that are in my head.
If there are two groups of people who do not understand a speaker; it is the group who do not ask questions that will remain in the dark and will, ten years later, be pretending to be listening to the ones who did ask questions.
Most people think I am a fool because I make a lot of mistakes. Yet, while I will not liken myself to a court jester who acts the fool yet is really a wise counselor in disguise, I might wear the mantle of being 'obscure in my direction'. I am trying new clothes on to see what fits; I am trying to use a saw as a hammer to see if it works. Crazy, I know, but I am learning about constraints and parameters and tolerances in my seemingly febrile meddling.
I am saddened that there are some people who have yet to grasp the spine of some things I find to be simple. Eventually, there has to be something that snaps in our thoughts; I suggest it is societal convention. If people cannot break free of an hegemony of teaching to find their own course of thinking then I suggest many people will miss out on many valuable lessons and experiences, if the hegemony of teaching does not provide sufficient fuel for useful combustion.
For goodness sake! Break out from the pen! Getting dipped at the end of the chute is not the target we should be aiming for. Often, being wet from the fly-dip merely shows that the cattle was able to follow a herd and has learnt that being fly-dipped is the goal and has learned how to position itself for subsequent efficient ear piercing.
I really want to help these poor souls, but how do you do that without pissing on their fragile confidence?
Bovine Failure
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Bovine Failure
[ 2 minute read ]
Isn't it sad how there are people who pretend to know stuff or be competent at something just to save face. Pride goes before a fall has never been truer than when there are opportunities to learn from mistakes that bring no shame or cost to the tyro or experimenter, and those opportunities are not taken up because we think the world will laugh at us as we learn. I have been in a certain geographical area of England in which I found it is common for the local folk to nod and say they understand when it is clear that everything I am saying is going right over their heads. I am not maligning an area and intimating that the locals are thick; most people don't understand what I am saying because I am not good at explaining things that are in my head.
If there are two groups of people who do not understand a speaker; it is the group who do not ask questions that will remain in the dark and will, ten years later, be pretending to be listening to the ones who did ask questions.
Most people think I am a fool because I make a lot of mistakes. Yet, while I will not liken myself to a court jester who acts the fool yet is really a wise counselor in disguise, I might wear the mantle of being 'obscure in my direction'. I am trying new clothes on to see what fits; I am trying to use a saw as a hammer to see if it works. Crazy, I know, but I am learning about constraints and parameters and tolerances in my seemingly febrile meddling.
I am saddened that there are some people who have yet to grasp the spine of some things I find to be simple. Eventually, there has to be something that snaps in our thoughts; I suggest it is societal convention. If people cannot break free of an hegemony of teaching to find their own course of thinking then I suggest many people will miss out on many valuable lessons and experiences, if the hegemony of teaching does not provide sufficient fuel for useful combustion.
For goodness sake! Break out from the pen! Getting dipped at the end of the chute is not the target we should be aiming for. Often, being wet from the fly-dip merely shows that the cattle was able to follow a herd and has learnt that being fly-dipped is the goal and has learned how to position itself for subsequent efficient ear piercing.
I really want to help these poor souls, but how do you do that without pissing on their fragile confidence?