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Feb. 3rd, 2005 11:00 amA funny bonus feature of my short fringey dance belt is that it distinctly flips in the direction of my hips. So, if I'm doing one of those twisty shimmies (hips forward vs. the usual hips up) wrong, everyone around me can tell. It's useful for class.
Last night in class, I was doing just that - hips up instead of front - and the teacher said something like "aha! your fringe has betrayed you" that accidentally [she was, after all, just joking] made me think about physical culture and the assumption that people want not to be corrected. I think, if you're doing something wrong, you ought to just want to do it right. Not simply to not be caught. Cause otherwise, why are you doing the thing?
There are exceptions, obviously - like half-assedly doing a job you didn't really choose to be doing. But it seems common to assume that people are basically lazy and have to fear punishment in order to bother doing well. [Management nerd time: this is, in fact MacGregor's Theory X, which everyone has come to think is complete bunk in a work context (it's one of those things that may have made sense in 1950). And yet it's clearly pervaded the culture when it comes to things like exercise and diet and such. Why is that, I wonder?]
Last night in class, I was doing just that - hips up instead of front - and the teacher said something like "aha! your fringe has betrayed you" that accidentally [she was, after all, just joking] made me think about physical culture and the assumption that people want not to be corrected. I think, if you're doing something wrong, you ought to just want to do it right. Not simply to not be caught. Cause otherwise, why are you doing the thing?
There are exceptions, obviously - like half-assedly doing a job you didn't really choose to be doing. But it seems common to assume that people are basically lazy and have to fear punishment in order to bother doing well. [Management nerd time: this is, in fact MacGregor's Theory X, which everyone has come to think is complete bunk in a work context (it's one of those things that may have made sense in 1950). And yet it's clearly pervaded the culture when it comes to things like exercise and diet and such. Why is that, I wonder?]
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