#BTSpeakingOut – Beads or tablets

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By Michael Rudder

For some time now I have been ruminating on what to me is a ‘vexed question,’ ‘Why does a certain group of people not get things right the first time?’

Members of the group are too old to be sent to the principal for correction. In any event the principal, because of the need to ‘regurgitate’ – in the sense of having to wheel and come again with programmes and policy, has appeared to have the dual function of dexterity and inconsistency. The members of the group are therefore on the ‘horns of a dilemma, so to speak.

In my rumination I thought of two possible applications – Beads or Tablets. I favour beads as each member should be given, let us say five beads.

Each bead moved from point ‘a’ to point ‘b’ represents the number of times each
document must be read and understood before being made public. Very simply put homework is needed.

On the other hand, tablets – whether electronic or little green pills – have the disadvantage of becoming addictive.

We know what autocorrect may do to a document being written or edited on a tablet. I would suggest that one avoids that solution unless you are a careful editor.

On the other hand, the little green pills may have been prescribed to purge members of fallacy, defect, quick fix or ‘no homework syndrome’. The side effects might just be ‘to purge’. That’s not a good solution in a house of debate as it might reveal too much by ‘look or smell,’ in any presentation.

Meanwhile members on the other side are busy, as it were, looking for chinks in the armor and also gleefully grabbing a morsel and dashing forth into the public domain, so far, with water pistols blazing.

Most recently protecting trees and swamp water have been their squirt, but no mention made of a treeless village on “gifts” of government land not far away.

More beads please.