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“Desired”, “wished-for”, ''in a perfect world''. | “Desired”, “wished-for”, ''in a perfect world''. | ||
===Desired by whom?=== | ===Desired by ''whom''?=== | ||
[[Subject matter expert]]s don’t usually have the ''time'' to contemplate the eternal verities, much less the inclination. To the extent they have a desired state beyond being on the train home, it would be a workplace absent any [[middle managers]] banging on about [[target operating model]]s. | [[Subject matter expert]]s don’t usually have the ''time'' to contemplate the eternal verities, much less the inclination. To the extent they have a desired state beyond being on the train home, it would be a workplace absent any [[middle managers]] banging on about [[target operating model]]s. | ||
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No. We inhabit a grubby, tedious [[Plato’s cave|cave]], in which we are shackled together and forced to look at the same craggy walls. We have no ideal forms; we see only their shadows, thrown by guttering candles against those misshapen walls. The ideals are perverted. Disfigured. Monstrous. The world we know is of the shadows: It is intractable, messy, irritating and prone to outbreaks of Sod’s law. | No. We inhabit a grubby, tedious [[Plato’s cave|cave]], in which we are shackled together and forced to look at the same craggy walls. We have no ideal forms; we see only their shadows, thrown by guttering candles against those misshapen walls. The ideals are perverted. Disfigured. Monstrous. The world we know is of the shadows: It is intractable, messy, irritating and prone to outbreaks of Sod’s law. | ||
Life in it is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short, and made immeasurably worse by these fellows with | Life in it is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short, and made immeasurably worse by these fellows with yard-sticks and protractors, getting under your feet while you try to get on with breaking your rocks. | ||
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