Caution: Entering Messy Zone

"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together." - Eugene Ionesco

Tom Asacker poses a few thought-provoking questions and launches the post with the above quote.

One of his doosies: "Trying to get paid attendees to your next event? Who do you think will draw more people, the Desperate Housewives or Peter Senge? Be honest."

In my comments I don't think I entirely addressed Tom's points nor was I necessarily practical. Two things I said off the cuff stand out for me:

I think people want the messy unpredicable drama and comedy of theater, of literature.

"Politics seeks to reduce everything to its simplest, most sensationalist components. Literature pulls against that. It's chaos, ambivalence, uncertainty. It's emotion, psychology, motivation, shadings of meanings," says Diana Ubu-Jaber, author of The Language of Baklava.

This will also explain later why I will break about every rule (what rules? those unspoken ones) in the professional/business blog universe. Tantamount to career suicide, we'll see.

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[Tom Asacker]

As a great human being once said: "I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."