I’m reminded of the last time I saw some motivational posters- on one wall was one that said “COMMUNICATION” and had some words about building bridges instead of walls. Immediately adjacent was one that said “TEAMWORK”… and featured a picture of the Great Wall of China.
Reminds me of these:
They’ve never really been improved on.
I think there’s some intentional subtle humor - the kind of stuff that the people who would un-ironically purchase them would miss - put in the real motivational posters by whoever makes them.
I saw this one in a thrift store a few days ago (my phone didn’t manage a good picture):
Individuality: Have courage and follow your own path.
If you’ve seen March of the Penguins (or just know about penguins), you know “following your own path” is a recipe for certain death, if you’re a penguin in winter.
Who needs a chicken… I can get the same effect with a mirror…
Yeah, those were popular a decade ago by the type of managers who felt that being comically cynical would endear himself with the team by reminding them that he too was a cog in the machine.
May actually work for me.
Even with an image macro?
I’m tired of chickens–
we never know what they think,
and they look at us with dry eyes
as though we were unimportant.
– Pablo Neruda
A Certain Weariness
And its true. They do. Because we are.
But it’s awfully hard to take that from a damn chicken.
– Greg Brown
Canned Goods (Live)
Thank you for this! I was getting so tired of Herzog’s quotable but incorrect comment. Neruda has it right.
He’s got a thing about dinosaurs.
“Okay team, just remember, we are all cogs in a soulless, grinding machine… grinding…”
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