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By Michael Clemmer*
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Lessons about Inertia & The Summer of Love
The year, 1969, "The Youngbloods" hit, "Get Together" was at the top of the charts, here are the lyrics. Please ponder them. Love is but a song we sing, Fear's the way we die, You can make the mountains ring, Or make the angels cry, Though the bird is on the wing, And you may not know why, Come on people now...., Smile on your brother, Everybody get together, Try to love one another right now... Some may come and some may go, He will surely pass, When the one that left us here, Returns for us at last, We are but a moment's sunlight, Fading in the grass, Come on people now...., Smile on your brother, Everybody get together, Try to love one another right now... If you hear the song I sing, You will understand...listen, You hold the key to love and fear, All in your trembling hand, Just one key unlocks them both, It's there at your command, Come on people now...., Smile on your brother, Everybody get together, Try to love one another right now... Come on people now...., Smile on your brother, Everybody get together, Try to love one another right now... So what's this got to do with the golf biz? The same thing it has to do with the American economy in general: we are stuck. Inertia has taken over and everybody seems to be waiting on someone else to do something. Some blame it on the present occupant of the White House, others blame Congress, the banks, the housing bubble, European banks... Ben Bernanke, the Fed Chairman, recently said we (meaning you and me) are "too depressed." Well, we're not crazy, but who wouldn't be depressed? Business is bad. If you are reading this and disagree, congratulations, you are most certainly one of the few. Inertia is a wonderful thing, it holds your golf ball patiently in place until you strike it and you have to strike it if is to become a birdie, or an eagle. It is also, according to the dictionary, "a tendency to do noting or to remain unchanged..." That may be swell if Mr. Bluebird is on your shoulder and everything is going your way, but not if you are waiting for someone else to make something positive happen. We may well be our own worst enemies. Our fears may become self-fulfilling. We’ve got to overcome the inertia that is keeping us from moving ahead. Think of a train, 200 cars long. It has to somehow get rolling; it has to overcome the inertia – the combined weight – of all those loaded cars if it is to get to its destination and make some money for CSX. The engineer applies the combined horsepower of several engines – a half million pounds of pulling power – and, coupling by coupling, the whole shebang begins to move. Kinetic Energy will keep it rolling – very efficiently – to its destination. The economy will work the same way, get it rolling, don’t get too greedy, and it will keep on keeping on. In April of 1939, James Thurber wrote in a New Yorker piece: "You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward." We've got to take a chance. We can make our economy better, ourselves. Come on people now..., Smile on your brother, Everybody get together, Try to love one another right now....Credits
Originally posted by MichaelClemmer on 19 Oct 2011.All contributors: MichaelClemmer,
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