Old Star Wars Review

NO TRY, NO DO

Lester del Ray, publisher the first Star Wars books, said that the
success of Star Wars was because it asserted ancient values; "that
courage is better than cowardice, that its better to stand up and win
than to lose. Kids are desparate for those ideas- they haven't been
getting them".
Star Wars was the top 'green grosser', untill '82, because it took
us where our eyes had never been before, with a story that is, in its
way, comfortably familiar. It has an updated hot rod, the call of
faraway planets, the farmboy turned adventurer-fighter pilot, a
cowardly Wookie, a Tinman, and loyal R2-Toto. Munchkin Jawas sell
used robots. OB1 Kanobi would feel right at home with Bilbo Baggins.
The Force is something like a skill that has become second nature, the
more you consciously think about it the more you mess up. Yoda, an
elderly muppet (I'd know grober anywhere), can levitate just like 'My
Favorite Martian' or any other "E.T.". May the force be with you
rings like May God be with you. In politics it's May the Mo be with
you.
Star Wars gives us a simple universe. Good and bad is us and
them. The officer bad guys wear a sort of Nazi-proletarian grey. The
common soldiers wear white armor but are faceless behind identical
masks. I wonder if they have families. Maybe the poor guys were
drafted. If you work for the empire you get no more pity than a blip
on a video screen.
An article about George Lucas began with a quote by Yoda. "Try
not. Do or do not. There is no try". Try can be edited out. It's
the magic of film and the movie makers creed. Every escape can be in
the nick of time and the odds can always be beaten. Even the laws of
nature can be manipulated to serve a plot. The only limits are those
of the special effects budget.
No one is interested in realistic stories about space travel. At
a million mph, LA to NY in nine seconds, the nearest star is over 2800
years away. Space is the ultimate in emptiness. Life has never been
welcome there. The vacuum is the embrace of death. No frontier in
history has ever been more merciless. There is no need to stock it
with villians.
The earth intercepts about half a billionth of the sun's energy,
the sacred fire of life. The rest is cast like gold into the abyss.
Perhaps we will someday become 'fishers of light'. It will have more
to do with parabolic reflectors and life support systems than blasters
and laser cannons.
It will take mountains of try. For us mortal humans, try, try
again, try a new approach, is all we have.

Try is the stuff that Do is made of.

Stephen Kearney

Old Physics ) wrote:
: NO TRY, NO DO

[...]

: Try is the stuff that Do is made of.


"Trying" implies doing with an optional failure attached stigma. "Doing"
implies success by completing what you intended. In the annals of positive
thinking, succeed by not allowing failure. According to Yoda, there is
only success and failure.

Eric

(Eric Chomko) wrote in message ...
Old Physics ) wrote:
: NO TRY, NO DO

[...]

: Try is the stuff that Do is made of.


"Trying" implies doing with an optional failure attached stigma. "Doing"
implies success by completing what you intended. In the annals of positive
thinking, succeed by not allowing failure. According to Yoda, there is
only success and failure.

Eric

I like Edison's take better. We know 5000 things that don't work.
Trial and error is essential to the scientific or engineering
enterprise. Try, try try again untill you succeed. Practice makes
perfect. Failures are the stepping stones to success. Maybe it is
different for telekenesis.

Old Physics ) wrote:
: (Eric Chomko) wrote in message ...
: Old Physics ) wrote:
: : NO TRY, NO DO
:
: [...]
:
: : Try is the stuff that Do is made of.
:
:
: "Trying" implies doing with an optional failure attached stigma. "Doing"
: implies success by completing what you intended. In the annals of positive
: thinking, succeed by not allowing failure. According to Yoda, there is
: only success and failure.
:
: Eric

: I like Edison's take better. We know 5000 things that don't work.
: Trial and error is essential to the scientific or engineering
: enterprise. Try, try try again untill you succeed. Practice makes
: perfect. Failures are the stepping stones to success. Maybe it is
: different for telekenesis.

Well in car sales they reward the person with the most failures, because
they engaged the customers more and therefore failed more. If you have
more successes as a cars salesmant than failures, then you aren't good at
it.

Eric

(Eric Chomko) wrote in message ...
Old Physics ) wrote:
: [....]
: I like Edison's take better. We know 5000 things that don't work.
: Trial and error is essential to the scientific or engineering
: enterprise. Try, try try again untill you succeed. Practice makes
: perfect. Failures are the stepping stones to success. Maybe it is
: different for telekenesis.

Well in car sales they reward the person with the most failures, because
they engaged the customers more and therefore failed more. If you have
more successes as a cars salesmant than failures, then you aren't good at
it.

So you are saying that a salesman who sells 1 car in 10 attempts is
better than another who sells 5 cars in 10 attempts? It is the same
that saying that a salesman who fails always is better than a salesman
who succees always. I thought that the figure of merit was sales not
failures.

Andres

Andres del Pozo ) wrote:
: (Eric Chomko) wrote in message ...
: Old Physics ) wrote:
: : [....]
: : I like Edison's take better. We know 5000 things that don't work.
: : Trial and error is essential to the scientific or engineering
: : enterprise. Try, try try again untill you succeed. Practice makes
: : perfect. Failures are the stepping stones to success. Maybe it is
: : different for telekenesis.
:
: Well in car sales they reward the person with the most failures, because
: they engaged the customers more and therefore failed more. If you have
: more successes as a cars salesmant than failures, then you aren't good at
: it.

: So you are saying that a salesman who sells 1 car in 10 attempts is
: better than another who sells 5 cars in 10 attempts? It is the same
: that saying that a salesman who fails always is better than a salesman
: who succees always. I thought that the figure of merit was sales not
: failures.

Never happens that way. More like 1 sale in 100 attempts is better than 5
sales in 10 attempts. The theory is that anyone can do 5 EASY sales in 10
attempts but the guy being rejected 99 times actually put himself more at
risk of failure. And the latter is the desire trait not someone that can
fill out sales slips.

The person most of the times with the most sales is the one with the most
failures.

Eric

: Andres

(Eric Chomko) wrote:

: Well in car sales they reward the person with the most failures, because
: they engaged the customers more and therefore failed more. If you have
: more successes as a cars salesmant than failures, then you aren't good at
: it.

: So you are saying that a salesman who sells 1 car in 10 attempts is
: better than another who sells 5 cars in 10 attempts? It is the same
: that saying that a salesman who fails always is better than a salesman
: who succees always. I thought that the figure of merit was sales not
: failures.

Never happens that way. More like 1 sale in 100 attempts is better than 5
sales in 10 attempts. The theory is that anyone can do 5 EASY sales in 10
attempts but the guy being rejected 99 times actually put himself more at
risk of failure. And the latter is the desire trait not someone that can
fill out sales slips.

The person most of the times with the most sales is the one with the most
failures.

Ah, I see. The car sales example you gave is technically accurate, but is
actually worded in such a way as to make us think that something unusual
is going on. Sounds like you've been studying Michael Moore's tactics.

The truth is that the person with the most sales is rewarded. Typically
that same person has the most failures, but the number of failures is not
what gets him the reward.

Alan Anderson ) wrote:
: (Eric Chomko) wrote:

: : Well in car sales they reward the person with the most failures, because
: : they engaged the customers more and therefore failed more. If you have
: : more successes as a cars salesmant than failures, then you aren't good at
: : it.
:
: : So you are saying that a salesman who sells 1 car in 10 attempts is
: : better than another who sells 5 cars in 10 attempts? It is the same
: : that saying that a salesman who fails always is better than a salesman
: : who succees always. I thought that the figure of merit was sales not
: : failures.
:
: Never happens that way. More like 1 sale in 100 attempts is better than 5
: sales in 10 attempts. The theory is that anyone can do 5 EASY sales in 10
: attempts but the guy being rejected 99 times actually put himself more at
: risk of failure. And the latter is the desire trait not someone that can
: fill out sales slips.
:
: The person most of the times with the most sales is the one with the most
: failures.

: Ah, I see. The car sales example you gave is technically accurate, but is
: actually worded in such a way as to make us think that something unusual
: is going on. Sounds like you've been studying Michael Moore's tactics.

Michael Moore? What does that guy have to do with car sales? Failure and
Bush makes sense as Moore demonstrated in his film.

Think of Bush failing to sell a car without trying but getting the
saleman's award any damn way. THAT is Bush.

: The truth is that the person with the most sales is rewarded. Typically
: that same person has the most failures, but the number of failures is not
: what gets him the reward.

That is NOT what I was told from people in the business.

Okay, what if two people sell the same number of cars. Who gets the award?
What if one had a better success/failure ratio, say salesman A, sold 10
out of 20, and salesman B sold 10 out of 30. Who gets the award?

Eric

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NO TRY, NO DO

Lester del Ray, publisher the first Star Wars books, said that the
success of Star Wars was because it asserted ancient values; "that
courage is better than cowardice, that its better to stand up and win
than to lose. Kids are desparate for those ideas- they haven't been
getting them".
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Star Wars was the top 'green grosser', untill '82, because it took
us where our eyes had never been before, with a story that is, in its
way, comfortably familiar. It has an updated hot rod, the call of
faraway planets, the farmboy turned adventurer-fighter pilot, a
cowardly Wookie, a Tinman, and loyal R2-Toto. Munchkin Jawas sell
used robots. OB1 Kanobi would feel right at home with Bilbo Baggins.
The Force is something like a skill that has become second nature, the
more you consciously think about it the more you mess up. Yoda, an
elderly muppet (I'd know grober anywhere), can levitate just like 'My
Favorite Martian' or any other "E.T.". May the force be with you
rings like May God be with you. In politics it's May the Mo be with
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Star Wars gives us a simple universe. Good and bad is us and
them. The officer bad guys wear a sort of Nazi-proletarian grey. The
common soldiers wear white armor but are faceless behind identical
masks. I wonder if they have families. Maybe the poor guys were
drafted. If you work for the empire you get no more pity than a blip
on a video screen.
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An article about George Lucas began with a quote by Yoda. "Try
not. Do or do not. There is no try". Try can be edited out. It's
the magic of film and the movie makers creed. Every escape can be in
the nick of time and the odds can always be beaten. Even the laws of
nature can be manipulated to serve a plot. The only limits are those
of the special effects budget.
No one is interested in realistic stories about space travel. At
a million mph, LA to NY in nine seconds, the nearest star is over 2800
years away. Space is the ultimate in emptiness. Life has never been
welcome there. The vacuum is the embrace of death. No frontier in
history has ever been more merciless. There is no need to stock it
with villians.
The earth intercepts about half a billionth of the sun's energy,
the sacred fire of life. The rest is cast like gold into the abyss.
Perhaps we will someday become 'fishers of light'. It will have more
to do with parabolic reflectors and life support systems than blasters
and laser cannons.
It will take mountains of try. For us mortal humans, try, try
again, try a new approach, is all we have.

Try is the stuff that Do is made of.

Stephen Kearney