The dragon creates its own logic, its own order. The dragon does not require nor respect order, authority, protocol. For all I know, this strange event can happen again or another even wilder, stranger incident might erupt.
Nothing has changed - or at least, I haven’t been let in on it. The problem is that I can’t stop thinking about it. “For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” - H.L.Mencken My problem was taken care of and so I should continue on as I was doing, right? I’m learning now that this has happened to others and that Tech Support is very good at addressing the symptom. Why and how this happened was never explained. If it hadn’t been for active, engaged reader friends, I never would have found out, never had to venture into the Medium support zone, never gotten riled up, never thought deeply about why I’m here, what Medium does for me, and what I do for Medium.
Last week, I was kicked out of Medium with no warning, no explanation. It is perhaps best, in fact, because I don’t ski and I’m afraid of heights. I can’t become an Olympic-level grand slalom skier, therefore I shouldn’t. What’s more, flipping the idea around works a little: Because you can’t means you shouldn’t. It sounds so familiar that it must have been background noise when I was growing up. It would also be useful when talking with a friend anguished over yet another inevitable romantic breakup and thinking that one more desperate text is a good thing to do. I did come up with “Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should.” What a useful phrase! It works as well with advising a wayward toddler as it does a teenager with folded arms atttitude. The word was mounted on walls, displayed on desks, used in conversation. In the 1950’s, International Business Machines used a guiding principle throughout their increasingly complex company: Think. Navy in 1960 and was used to encourage deep thinking, elegant and logical solutions to complex problems.
*Or, Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should
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