how do you feel about howard?
Do your feelings about Howard Moskowitz change as you watch these two talks?
First up is Malcolm Gladwell:
Next up is Barry Schwartz:
So what do you think about Howard?
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My initial read: I like choice and think it more often liberates rather than paralyzes, though it will paralyze every once in a while. I’m not convinced in Schwarz’s slogan: “Some better than none, more worse than some”. We’d have to research more than his feelings on the subject to know if that is the case. Perhaps he and I reside in a different ideal-world cluster . He would prefer his overall welfare in a world where someone just gives him uncomfortable jeans, while I would prefer the one where I choose the comfortable pair. I recognize the feeling of “I hope that I got the best ones” but it’s negativity is outweighed by the jeans quite quickly in my world.
Due to these potentially different personality clusters (each person potentially a cluster unto herself), I don’t grant him that the whole world having some is better than the whole world having a lot, as long as it’s not at unweighed expense. Attaching a plea for others to not have none is certainly ok and I’m all for it. But that’s not really related to the question of if having more is better than having some. I agree it would be a better world if all had some rather than some have none, and some have more. But I’m not convinced the ideal isn’t where all have more. Where we’d all suffer through the choice-pangs before the rest of the jean comfort and summer begins.
Cartoons aside, summer sun is summer sun. I bet that that guy on the beach enjoys his days just fine when the one panel ends and the rest begin. City heat sucks.
But if cities are the product of many persons like myself trying to acquire that more is more ideal while taking away the beach every day, therein lies the paradox which, perhaps at best, leaves us tilting at the windmill of human nature and the industrial revolution running rampant on a globe without enough beach.