Fish (Daily Planet email #943)
Catch a man a fish?
He eats for a day.
Teach a man to fish?
He eats for a lifetime.
If he likes to eat fish.
Well, yes, given.
Make a man a sandwich?
He eats for, like, ten minutes, tops.
Tell him to make his own darn sandwich?
You’ve saved yourself some time there, that’s what you did.
Plus he’s free to eat whatever he wants.
That’s freedom, what you gave there.
It’s freedom.
It’s American.
As American as a sandwich.
What if he doesn’t know how to make a sandwich?
What person is old enough to feed themselves but doesn’t know how to make a sandwich? I ask you.
Some people got blind spots.
Yes, but core competencies…
Plus he was kinda dense during the fishing lessons.
True enough.
Not the sharpest hook in the tackle.
His tide was not all in.
Rounded at the free end.
If you gave him two slices of bread, and a fish, do you think he’d figure it out?
Before the fish went bad? Maybe. Symmetry suggests as much.
This teaching people stuff, it’s like a thing.
A thing?
It takes effort.
If a thing’s worth doing…
Easier just to do nothing.
Buncha hungry people then.
Huh. So eat already.
So what is worth doing?
Amass, amass. Engulf.
Contain?
Assess, expand, and garner.
Accelerate?
Never stop!
Maximalist?
110%.
A bird in the hand?
Sings for its life!
Man buys the ocean?
And eats all the fish!
Is that right?
Sounds good to me.
Only if you’re the man.
Oh. In this scenario, I am not the man?
You are not.
Shucks.
Just about.
