Monday, March 26, 2012

Gaspar the Empty Boast

A month ago Casper the Friendly Ghost haunted my thoughts and mental images.  Well, it's morphed into Gaspar the Empty Boast for pretty obvious reasons to anyone paying attention.  Pick a meeting, any meeting and you'll hear some self-adoring declarative statement from Gaspar.

But, these statements, boasts are largely illusionary if the majority council script needs to read differently for those in charge, those funding the majority campaigns. Like Mayor Stocks and the other council majority members Bond and Muir who haunt city hall; consistency, actual facts, alternatives to exclusively self-referential anecdotal judgements are rare.

 

Beware the illusions, the woman must be challenged.  How can she use the term moving forward over and over again, while virtually putting the breaks on a 2-year process and starting over?  How can she demand speedy turnaround in one breadth and caution slow going in another?  Words often become nonsense if we search beyond the giggling feel good sound of them all. We deserve much better than empty words, even if read well from a script. See previous post, Bullies' Articulately Rendered Figurehead* discussing Gaspar's script reading.

*BARF