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Michel
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
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Location: Norway
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 Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:45 am Post subject: [Off-topic] Mister-good-guy WAS: Graphics body wrap! |
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On Sep 30, 2006, at 6:56 PM, Dave G. wrote:
| Quote: | Perhaps an avian gnome of some sort to encourage safe airmanship is in
order, I have a kit fox on my dash, but a gnome would be ok.
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The idea had crossed my mind too, Dave. Our plan was to get yachting
publications interested. We got so far with a couple of them. Then, to
have them to print articles about fictive scientists discussing old
documents relating the story of those fictive beings. We got so far as
to make a false helmsman's logbook 120 years old. The idea is to play
with the mind of the reader. The story must be as real as possible, yet
it must be understood a a prank or just something funny. Then the next
step is to contact national authorities, insurance companies, and
everyone who see a point in focusing on safety. Then arrive the
spin-offs, t-shirts, mugs, anything that spins the idea further.
At the end, you have a t-shirt or anything else that identify you with
the symbol, and you dare not drink and drive careless while carrying
the flag of good seamanship.
And now we come to one of my deep concerns: Our society punishes the
bad guy without thinking about rewarding the good one. If you are
mister-nice-guy and do everything to abide by the law, pay your taxes
and honour your debts, you are still looked upon as a potential
terrorist when you go through a security gate at an airport. Nice
people should be able to identify themselves, if they wish so, and get
rewarded for it.
Likewise, the Islamic problem will only be solved when Muslims will
find a way to identify themselves as the large majority of them who are
peace-loving and tolerant. But as long as they all rally under a same
flag, we can't separate the wheat from the chaff, and we let terrorists
believe they have the entire Muslim world behind them, which they do
certainly not.
.. sorry for this long philosophical rambling, I felt I needed to say
it.
Cheers,
Michel
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