A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in California when, suddenly, a brand-new BMW advanced toward him, out of a cloud of dust.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will you give me a calf?" .
Bud looked at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looked at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answered, "Sure, Why not?" .
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location, which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area, in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man, then, opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database, through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet, with email on his Blackberry, and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud. He watches the young man select one of the animals, and looks on, with amusement, as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?" The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?" .
"You're a Government Official", says Bud. "Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?" .
"No guessing required." answered the cowboy.
"You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked..
You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or about cows, for that matter.
This is a herd of sheep. ... Now give me back my dog”.
Holy cow! This has been one of the best emails I have ever received, as it showed to me the dire contradiction of the scenarios of the leaders and the followers, the self labeled saviors of the nations and the wasted human debris of their societies.
It is so good to ponder on the outcome when the peoples decide at last to take their stand and face the smarter: “And the cowboy got his dog back. The dog that the senator thought was a calf”.
My goodness! We could extend the compliments to all the international bureaucracy that is messing, excuse me; I am sorry but I have to say it as it is…straightening up, wiping up, teaching, leading and discipling the world.
Meanwhile the people, the people of the less developed but euphemistically labeled as “on the road to development of popular democracies”, impoverished, coarsened, dissociated with reality, drunkenly dance on the streets.
And the contradicting picture completes itself, because the drunkard dances oblivious of his surroundings, while nearby the so called hopes of the future pirouette on school parades through the dilapidated streets and houses of every small village of their respective country.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will you give me a calf?" .
Bud looked at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looked at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answered, "Sure, Why not?" .
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location, which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area, in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man, then, opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database, through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet, with email on his Blackberry, and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud. He watches the young man select one of the animals, and looks on, with amusement, as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?" The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?" .
"You're a Government Official", says Bud. "Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?" .
"No guessing required." answered the cowboy.
"You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked..
You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or about cows, for that matter.
This is a herd of sheep. ... Now give me back my dog”.
Holy cow! This has been one of the best emails I have ever received, as it showed to me the dire contradiction of the scenarios of the leaders and the followers, the self labeled saviors of the nations and the wasted human debris of their societies.
It is so good to ponder on the outcome when the peoples decide at last to take their stand and face the smarter: “And the cowboy got his dog back. The dog that the senator thought was a calf”.
My goodness! We could extend the compliments to all the international bureaucracy that is messing, excuse me; I am sorry but I have to say it as it is…straightening up, wiping up, teaching, leading and discipling the world.
Meanwhile the people, the people of the less developed but euphemistically labeled as “on the road to development of popular democracies”, impoverished, coarsened, dissociated with reality, drunkenly dance on the streets.
And the contradicting picture completes itself, because the drunkard dances oblivious of his surroundings, while nearby the so called hopes of the future pirouette on school parades through the dilapidated streets and houses of every small village of their respective country.
The video may look mediocre, vulgar and coarse but that, unfortunately, sadly but true, is the foundation of the power seeking structures and methods of the opportunist leaders of today. Changing otherwise rational individual and societes into derrelicts and disociated ones.
That is the vivid image of the people, the people that so many local and international politicians and bureaucrats, who fill so many of well paid positions, pompously declare in the press and the international organizations’ meetings, that they, so sacrificially serve, while enriching themselves with the spoils of the power exercised and power abused.
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