Comments on: Green Spot: Pushing A Rope http://blog.canadian-dream-free-at-45.com/2009/01/23/green-spot-pushing-a-rope/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:31:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: WindsorGuy http://blog.canadian-dream-free-at-45.com/2009/01/23/green-spot-pushing-a-rope/comment-page-1/#comment-19125 WindsorGuy Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:04:55 +0000 http://blog.canadian-dream-free-at-45.com/?p=609#comment-19125 This is a very insightful comment. As an engineer I find myself telling more and more of my colleagues when solving a problem, it's prudent to start from the basics - F=ma and you can't push a rope. Everything can be solved from there. The fact that so many of my fellow engineers have forgotten that speaks to a larger problem plaguing society today as you've pointed out. I speak frequently with a co-worker about his youth in the former Yugoslavia. He speaks of it fondly, with the perfect balance between socialism and capitalism - until it was collapsed by the west. Here (North America) we're continually atomized as individuals and we have no sense of the collective, no sense of nationality. We don't talk to our neighbours, we don't meet up after work for a beer, we shuffle our kids around to keep impossible schedules. As long as I'm ok, I'm ok. But for me to be ok, we all need to be ok. We need to relax, get back to basics and rediscover a lot of things we've lost by throwing money and time at things that really aren't that important. I bet we all have a handy neighbour that could fix the car for a beer and a good conversation - but we have to go talk to him (or her) first. This is a very insightful comment. As an engineer I find myself telling more and more of my colleagues when solving a problem, it’s prudent to start from the basics – F=ma and you can’t push a rope. Everything can be solved from there. The fact that so many of my fellow engineers have forgotten that speaks to a larger problem plaguing society today as you’ve pointed out.

I speak frequently with a co-worker about his youth in the former Yugoslavia. He speaks of it fondly, with the perfect balance between socialism and capitalism – until it was collapsed by the west. Here (North America) we’re continually atomized as individuals and we have no sense of the collective, no sense of nationality. We don’t talk to our neighbours, we don’t meet up after work for a beer, we shuffle our kids around to keep impossible schedules. As long as I’m ok, I’m ok. But for me to be ok, we all need to be ok. We need to relax, get back to basics and rediscover a lot of things we’ve lost by throwing money and time at things that really aren’t that important. I bet we all have a handy neighbour that could fix the car for a beer and a good conversation – but we have to go talk to him (or her) first.

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