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Provocative statements…
By Scott Rudolph
…Are meant to provoke, stimulate, to encourage investigation and generally challenge our conventional thinking. The “buzz” cultivated with a healthy provocative statement generates dialog and creative thinking. So I appreciate a good provocative statement. Each year, EDGE.org's John Brockman asks a new provocative question and the world’s intellectuals contribute. Ben Stein, our recent guest speaker, often writes provocative statements and he significantly contributed to a provocative new film entitled “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.”
Maybe Cyril Moulle-Berteaux, a writer for The Wall Street Journal, enjoys them too, judging by his recent opinion piece titled “The Housing Crisis is Over.” All this being said, I think there should be some fundamental ground rules. I suggest that before we make a provocative statement we analyze:
- The consequences of the statement
- What the benefits would be
- What special circumstances would make it a sensible solution
- The principles needed to support it and make it work
- How it would work moment-to-moment
- What would happen if a sequence of events was changed
Editor’s Note:
Scott Rudolph is the Director of Business Development for LuxuryRealEstate.com. He works with a variety of luxury-focused companies to expand the LuxuryRealEstate.com influence. I recently watched Ben Stein’s movie, “Expelled” and I was quite impressed with the reasonable and insightful ideas expressed in it. You can read some of my thoughts on it in my April 30, 2008 blog entry. I am a big fan of the freedom of expression because that is how the truth is discovered. Truth has never been decided by a majority vote and so we should always be open to ideas that seem odd but might turn out to be right, after all.
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