LEE PITTS PARADIGM

IT'S THE PITTS

BY

LEE PITTS

UNSUSTAINABLE

Two of the biggest catchwords of the 21 century are “paradigm”

and “sustainable”..

College professors and overeducated use paradigm a lot while the

fancy pants of society tend to over use sustainable.

When you hear someone use these words, bet your life that you are Iin the

midst of pink palmed country club people who ' attend ' the theater

while you and I 'go to the theater'. Why use paradigm when you don't

even know what it means. Using plain talk, easy understood, it is just a

nickle short of a quarter. Sustainable, your guess is as good as anyone. Is

it a hip word popular with the environmentally conscious ?

A sustainable bank went bankrupt because it had more vice presidents

than it had depositors. A cowboy is not a sustainable career, they say,

nor is a cowboy writer. Maybe a homeless person, living under a bridge

with his possessions in a shopping cart is sustainable.

All of this sustainable stuff is unsustainable. You can have a rock solid

business, then all of a sudden, it stops raining, a mad cow will get to you,

your horse will spook and put you in a body cast, the climate will change

or your wife will leave you and take your sustainability with her.

Life is not sustainable, Steve Jobs died did he not. He founded the largest

sustainable corporation in the world. We all have an expiration date no

matter how sustainable we think we are.

Love is sustainable, love your spouse, your children, your God and

country. That has been the paradigm for more than 6000 years.

Lee Pitts in November 27, 2018 , Delmarva Farmer Magazine.