Point of order

A month into the swagclub project, and I have taken the whole weekend off to read, or reread, a handful of unrelated books. A graphic novel- Maus, the classic Fight Club, which is the root document for swagclub,  and Free, by Chris Anderson, the same guy who wrote The Long Tail. Also spent time delving into HBR and my fave trade pub,as I am always looking for ideas that will help my clients connect and also run the swagclub better.

 

Seems normal enough, right?

 

Here is the kicker- Zombies, Nazi zombies, and plain Nazis have been discussed here quite a bit lately, and the root of the question is 'who is worse?'

 

Been kinda fascinated with the whole subject of man's inhumanity to man, oddly because of a speech I had been noodling with for the past month or so about zombies, of all things.

It was meant to be a humorous speech, and from the audience reaction, I guess it was. But it started deeper discussions around 211 Culdass.

 

Maus-

 

I can't explain my interest in Maus, other than the fact that it really does a great job of humanizing the dehumanizing conditions of Nazi Germany and the concentration camps. And it does it by dehumanizing the humans into mice, cats, and pigs.That juxtaposition really was an elegant way to explain a complicated story. A real story. A story that touches our family, and all of our families, no matter how obliquely, to this day.

A serious story- especially when compared to the creepy or nonsensical zombie stuff going on here.

 

Shawn of the Dead-

 

We watched a great zombie movie the other day- Shawn of the Dead, the boys ran away screaming. Shawn of the Dead is a dark comedy, and is an odd sort of 'boy meets girl, boy looses girl, boy tries to save girl and fam and mates from zombie invasion', with varying degrees of success. Not sure why the boys ran away screaming, but it sure did crowd up our already crowded bed for the next couple of weeks.

 

xbox-

And the Nazi zombies have been making their ghoulish appearance in the xbox way too much these days. We have been rained in for what seems like the past two weeks- no damage to anything but morale, but the boys keep gravitating back to the gray faced soldiers who are really tricky to kill off.

Back to the original question- Zombies, Nazi zombies, and plain Nazis -- 'who is worse?'   

I gotta vote for the plain Nazis and their free will to serve an evil cause. Because, even though resistance may have gotten some killed, lack of resistance got even more killed.

And those whose lack of resistance, whose fear trapped them into servitude, I pray for them. And pray if ever faced with such unpleasantness, I will choose the harder fight. Like the characters in the true story I read this summer- Every Man Dies Alone- about a strange form of German resistance to the Nazis. They chose a fight, and they died in the process.

Speaking of fights....rereading Fight Club.

More to come in the next few weeks as swagclub coalesces into something real.

Authentic.

Passionate.

The feedback has been overwhelming, with the kind of understanding I could never have dreamed of. Most everyone I have explained the concept of swagclub to got it.

 

They got me.

 

They got on board.

Did you?

 

The fight for great swag, and making great connections, is afoot.

'Let's get it on!'

 

 

 And more about Free soon too. You know I love free, and  as the 9th rule of swagclub clearly states......'great advice @swagclub is always free. always.'