Day 284, Post industrial desk slavery

An internal voice shouts -

Will this battle against mediocrity never end.

Another internal voice responds -

Assuming there is such a thing as an objective definition of mediocrity then no, it will never end.

Internal voice - Let me have my rhetoric, you know what I mean.

Second internal voice - The problem with that is there is no point about what you are saying other than the theatre of it, how does it help.

Internal voice - But there is a point, it is also the question.

Second internal voice - Ok then, if it is a question then entropy suggests that the ending, the universal end, will be mediocre, therefore mediocrity will never end.

Internal voice - Oh shut up you pompous arse.

Second internal voice - Yes, to be fair that was reductionist.

Internal voice - I don't want to believe no matter what any of us do that the end will be that.

Second internal voice - Maybe not, so look at it from a different perspective.

Internal voice - Don't try and rationalise it with some pseudo-science.

Second internal voice - What we do now doesn't have to be mediocre, it is not necessarily mediocre even if apparently so, it is all subjective, wake every day and do the best you can, you will be content that your contribution to mediocrity was to counteract that of the underachiever.

Internal voice - If you've got any more home-spun wisdom and nauseating homilies please keep them to yourself.

Third internal voice - Stop pushing In Praise of Just Getting By*, how many times, it's been debunked.  What next, Holland Codes and Myers-Briggs, graphology, phrenology?  I despair.

Second internal voice - If you don't wish to take advantage of what's available then that's up to you.

Third internal voice - Don't try and shift the responsibility with your sleight of hand, we can see through you.

Internal voice - If only that were the case.

Factory facade

*A fictitious self-help book on how to increase productivity, subtly targeted at those that believe that everybody can be above average.

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