Stop Announcing the End of the World
It just isn’t sexy.
Dead polar bears, melting ice caps and flooding cities may be what you believe we’re heading toward, but it is not the way to get the attention of a human being.
We should have learned that by now.
Don’t you just hate listening to a librarian who complains that no one wants to read books anymore? You want to say, “Shut up. Entice me. Seduce me. Give me a little foreplay before you insert the old Shakespeare.”
How about a corporation which is constantly threatening to go bankrupt? It’s so bad that the employees talk to you about it as you check out with your purchases. Here’s a clue: go bankrupt or go big.
Stop complaining.
I, for one, am disgusted with political parties telling me that if the other side wins, hell will not only break loose, but will spill all over my coffee table.
- Tell me what you want to do.
- Tell me who you are.
- Tell the truth.
Let the chips fall where they may.
And finally, I would certainly think we should have learned from religion, which constantly squawks, like Chicken Little, that the “sky is falling” and “the devil done did it agin.” I can’t see the devil, so give me something I can fight.
Don’t ask me if I “believe in climate change.”
Don’t judge me on the degree to which I affirm your findings.
Find two things. Then tell me what I can do.
Encourage me with a massive message of (a) do what you know; and (b) do what you hear.
For if I’m on my way to doing what I know and I hear something I can apply to do better, I’m already motivated and in the correct lane to make the turn.
But if you argue policies to convince me that no matter what, we are doomed by 2030, I would like you to take all your pamphlets and books, go off by yourself and masturbate.
You don’t win people over by telling them it’s “impossible.”
You don’t engage people by making them feel guilty about “why they haven’t joined up already.”
Find two things we can do.
Then allow the human race to do what we know and as we grow, to do what we hear.
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