Sunday, November 30, 2003

Hoarding your seconds

In the past year, the Union Square area has become thick with friendly, outgoing, and entirely reasonable-seeming dressed-up hippies asking passersby, “Do you have a second for Greenpeace?”

The apparent answer is that no one wants to spend a second thinking about Greenpeace. They are going to spend the next second walking by the opportunity to think about Greenpeace.

It almost seems like a good campaign for the opposition. Show some footage of this happening hundreds of times per day, with the tagline: “EVEN ONE SECOND IS TOO MUCH FOR GREENPEACE.”

Never give your enemies this kind of opportunity.

Perhaps the true mistake is that Greenpeace is asking for even less from people on an issue of some significance, though it is an abstract one for most people, than guys in bars ask of you when baseball is on. If last night I had to listen to twenty minutes on who was traded where, of what possible interest is your issue which only takes a second to fully discuss?

Have some self-respect, reasonable-seeming Greenpeace workers.

by Jack, November 30, 2003 2:06 PM | More from The Damned Human Race

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