>Tom C. here with my Mafud-hat on. :-)
>
>Except when focusing on the differences broadens our perspective while
>looking for the commonality makes us smuggly complacent.
>
Well Tom, that's a mighty big hat, and I think you've got it on backwards. :-)
How many brawls or wars do you suppose have been launched with slogans
like, "Hey, those guys are just like us!" or, "that ain't the way I do it,
but I don't know everything."?
Seriously--constant contact with people who have different methods, and
different philosophies driving those methods, and, frequently, superior
work as a result of that difference, is surely a swift kick in the ass for
all but the most smuggly self-satisfied, don't you think? And for me, my
own experience of how to piss other people off is already broad enough--I
don't want it deepened.
I don't know about you, but all I have to do to not feel complacent is to
look at some of the photos shown by other list members, or read a thread
where the participants are talking about stuff that goes right over my head
or reminiscing about things that are ancient history to them but brand new
to me.
Dan Scott
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