if you wanna sing out...

You know, every once in awhile I have to wonder if employers would prefer the robot to the human. I mean, hey, you get maximum productivity, exactly what the boss wants to hear at any given moment (the employer can program in those rote responses), and working until all hours of the night (no need for breaks). Sure, you lose some of the innovation and creativity, and shaking a metal hand is somehow not nearly as tantalizing as a human one...but I suppose that comes with the territory. We could all be part of Cogswell's cogs, to make a tv reference from waaay back when, and in some ways, we do act as cogs in a machine. Our productivity and efficiency make the machine go. If our gears turn more slowly, all the rest of the machine's gears a touch more slowly, too.

But does blowing past the times where we really need to slow down really work? Or, does it eventually grind the gears to a halt? Can spinning too fast cause the machine to breakdown? And does one breakdown in the machine affect the entirety of it? To quote the words of Guns 'N Roses (I think), "Ooo, it makes you wonder."