colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (06/04/85)
["In the service of Virman Vundabar we learn perfection!"] > Anyway, what I seem to be saying here, is what self- > respecting person can take on a job, accept the responsibilities > and rewards that come with it, and fail to do at least 100% > of the job, let alone to do a better job than that "required" of > him, and thereby advance. In any job there is room for the > *mind* of the producer to improve the product. By the way, there's a parody of "A Message to Garcia" (and other works) in Veronica Geng's latest anthology. In it President Reagan climbs up a drainpipe and in a window to explain his "Message" to a voter. Yes, there are societies in which the people do everything as well as they can. But in those societies, nobody gives orders; everything is decided jointly. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel