Tom Leu "seeing things" … perspectives on music, marketing, & motivation

“Pop Quiz” #4

I want to give you a little test.

What kind of test?

A pop quiz.

I thought I was through with those things when I finished college.

Not quite. Just tell me the first thing that comes to mind when I say the following series of things. 

What is this some sort of Rorschach-style interview?

Call it whatever you want. Are you ready?

Let’s do it.

Liberal.

Relative.

Conservative.

Exclusionary.

Reason.

A source of insight and explanation.

Religion.

A source of socially acceptable delusion and exclusion disguised as inclusion.

Atheist.

Fundamentalist-light.

Agnostic.

Not sure about the nature of reality.

Reality TV.

The new prime time.

Rockford, IL.

Behind the times.

New York City.

Ahead of the times.

Los Angeles.

In time.

New York Yankees.

Sick of them.

Los Angeles Lakers.

Sick of them.

Going to the lake.

Relaxing and revealing.

The Internet.

More will necessarily be revealed.

Social Media.

Too much unnecessary information.

Celebrity.

Overrated.

Blogging.

Overrated.

Bob Dylan.

Overrated.

Boz Skaggs

Underrated.

Ricky Skaggs

Underrated.

King’s X

Underrated.

XXXchurch.com

Cleverly-creative idea.

Republican.

Liberally-relative ideal.

Democrat.

Conservatively-exclusionary ideal.

Persuasion

The vehicle.

Communication

The difference.

Emotional intelligence.

The destination.

Balance.

The ball game.

Well done. So what’s the moral of the story?

All of the things that you asked me about were loosely related to the next. And then it all sort of came together full-circle at the end, and became a six degrees of separation sort-of-thing.

Neat huh?

Yeah… because when you really think about it, most things in the world are more or less interconnected. All of creation is dependent, yet interdependent at the same time. Each of its own, on its own, yet deriving meaning within the context of the other.

All things are complex and commonplace; esoteric yet exposed; sophisticated yet sophomoric simultaneously. Such is life…

Congratulations. You’ve passed the quiz.

©2009 Tom Leu