TOPIC - Due 2/28 - 'Quick Fix-ism'

We live in a time when everyone believes he can accomplish something. It really doesn't matter what; the belief itself is what matters, as it engenders a lot of high targeting with no concomitant growth of effort. The easy, wrong way is de rigueur accepted as the only plausible path to these lofty goals, and the ground is littered with the heaving bodies of high-reaching pretenders.

This week's assignment is on method and rigor, and how these two things seem to be missing from the lives of the very people who have assigned themselves the tasks that most require it - and how annoying this is for the people who actually have seriously and with an understanding of the dedication required set themselves to the same goals, only to catch the whining of this dumb, enthusiastic lot.

1000 words, due 2/28.