This is from Hugh Macleod's Hughtrain on gapingvoid.com. He uses it to illustrate the barriers between markets and the internals of a company and speaks about the porousness of x and how much are A & B aligned.
Being a Friday it seems my brain is in a bit of a philosophical mode.
We bought our first house this year. It is not in a suburb that is "the place to buy", just a very average suburb. What's amazing about where we live is that there are very few walls, and the neighbourhood kids play in the street until late at night. I was sitting chatting to my neighbour last night and he was commenting on how this is so rare.
So, getting back to the picture and applying it slightly differently. Let's say A is me or you, or any citizen of our country. B is everyone else.
In SA our (affluent) culture is to build the biggest wall along X that we can afford, but essentially that disconnects us from B, or disconnects us from the people around us (as you can imagine this principle can be applied to lots of things).
So we have this vicious circle going, crime drives up walls, which in turn disconnect us from the people around us, which exposes us to more crime, and drives up bigger walls.
I'm not suggesting breaking down your walls and turning off the electric fence, maybe just connect to someone this weekend, whether that's your wife, children, neighbour or friend. Connect, speak, enjoy, because when people start to communicate, really communicate, walls come down between us and the world changes.
Have a great weekend
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