How unfair can you get!!

Today I am taking a short (one day) break from writing about my normal topics of the business of magic and how magicians make more profit from improved sales and business process.

Browsing a few postings on ecademy (I must be bored), amongst the usual dire and uninteresting rubbish that most ecademists usually post I found one item that was interesting....

The article pointed to a short news piece about life coaches and a very valuable use for them (at last) : the Americans are planning to parachute them into Iraq. Here is a brief snippet from the original article:

"President Bush yesterday unveiled his government’s bold new strategy to alleviate the plight of ordinary Iraqis; deploying thousands of American life-coaches. ‘With Iraqi people feeling more pessimistic now than they did a year ago, the obvious solution is to turn them into get-up-and-go optimists from within’ said Mike Finkelman of the Chicago Institute for Neuro Linguistic Programming. ‘Change is GOOD, get used to it Iraq!’

Now don't misunderstand me - I ridicule and dislike life coaches as much as the next sane human being. And of course dropping them into a war zone on the face of it sounds like a great plan. After all the few that aren't shot in the air will surely be captured on hitting the ground and taken to a torture camp somewhere?

But just for once I don't want to think about myself first. After all the people of Iraq have suffered enough haven't they? It seems inhumane to now send the life coaches in - the Americans need to show some compassion here.

Imagine you are employed as a torturer. You are just off to work minding your own business, hardly a care in the world as you ponder how much electricity you might use today.... when you are confronted by your next victim. But this time the tables are turned - it's a life coach! Your day, week.... no month is shattered. Every day this person continues to ask you questions and smiles in the vacant way that only a life coach can. No matter what you do to them, they still smile back, nod their head in a wise and condescending fashion and say "I can really see where you are coming from, but it is important for you to look within and see the hope. Why did you just put 240 volts into my left nipple?" It would be enough to make even the most experienced professional torturer kill themselves.

So have a heart. Yes, of course I agree the problem of life coaches needs to be dealt with, but lets find a better solution than just making our problem into someone else problem.