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Monday, September 19, 2011

REVIEWS: Orbiting the Giant Hairball OR Is it really a "hairball"?

Below are the thoughts from a person who chooses to remain anonymous.

Being a "creative" professional for 16 years, I've heard these thoughts coming from freelancers, all the way to world class agency people. What are your thoughts?

(Keep in mind, not all creatives think this way)

"Is it really a hairball?

Nope, it's more of a Rubberband Ball. Orbiters occasionally pull away, but snapback to ballbrain thinking pretty fast. Either by choice or they are pulled back...OR, they are cut loose if they refuse, and spring away hoping to attach to another rubberband ball, and unfortunately, this time decide that orbiting is too dangerous.

For those that are not cut loose, they snapback, become a ballbrain and as new bands of bureaucracy are laid on them, they get buried and soon can't stretch themselves and orbit any more.

Are Rubberband balls bad? NO! They are needed, because without the gravitational pull of them, there really isn’t any orbiting, just idea-comets flying through space without purpose, direction or value.

But the bigger question is what they are orbiting, being pulled by or drawn back into. That’s where the the problem lies.

Welcome to reality. Most orbiting is based on position and less on culture and equal opportunity.

Orbiters make better targets too. Who wants that?

Is it just the rogue astronauts? The intellectual explorers? Maybe they just don’t care, they believe there’s more then one ball out there.

So in a struggling economy, nobody wants to be shot down or cut loose. So we stick to the Rubberband Ball, engage our ballbrain and survive."

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