Leveraging Oatmeal

In the new world, you should make other areas of life more like oatmeal, for it is at once warm, nutritious and satisfying. Plus, it’s easy to add other healthy items to cooked oatmeal. Among my favorites (as you know) are dried cherries, golden raisins, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, brown sugar and shredded coconut – in various combinations (as you also know).

Start with a trivial item like chairs. To use the oatmeal analogy, give the production and distribution of chairs a consistently beneficial outcome. Otherwise they will vary from sinfully luxurious chairs to hard metal folding chairs used for mass assemblages (e.g., schools, municipal facilities). The latter is so far removed from the oatmeal-like qualities that I would like to see replicated throughout Earth 2.0.

Your philosophy has been, as I understand it, to let people figure everything out for themselves. I would ask you to challenge your assumptions and consider becoming more involved in our affairs. Every good actor benefits from a good director, who provides support and offers recommendations. To improve our performance, why don’t you be the director? You kind of are in so many other areas. It really wouldn’t be a stretch.

Of course, you have to like oatmeal for my scheme to work. Some people just don’t care for it. They are probably petitioning you at this very moment to make automobile shopping more like drinking a yogurt smoothie. I have no problem with that.