People need ProxSets to function and make sense of their worlds. That doesn’t mean their ProxSets can’t change. By the way, with proximity thinking, “their worlds” in the first sentence could have also been stated “their proximities.”
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David Loughry
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David Loughry
McDonald’s has the Worst In-Store Menus
The font size on the menus in McDonald’s restaurants is way too small. The font size does not honor the visual abilities of most people. It’s really quite bizarre. They are the worst in-store menus I’ve ever seen. I wonder if the graphic designers ever stood and looked at the menus after they were manufactured.
But I suppose, what can we expect from the corporation that is costing the global population billions of dollars in healthcare expenses due to the unhealthiness of the food they serve?
On the other hand, it’s not really all their fault. McDonald’s operates within systems, those being markets and governments, which tend to emphasize elements at the expense of relationships and proximities. In other words, money (an element) is emphasized at the expense of the general healthiness (proximity) of people, and the tastes (relationships) of freshly cooked healthy foods.
And of course, most of us operate within such dysfunctional systems. So you can’t really have high expectations for most anyone or anything.
What is needed are systems which acknowledge and allow for elements, relationships, and proximities. The ProxThink growth model is an attempt at such a system.
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David Loughry
‘Broken Windows’ Policing Strategy and Proximities
Communities and neighborhoods are proximities, and proximities matter. In a telling comment, former police chief Bratton had this brief summary of what Wilson and Kelling were saying with their so-called “broken windows” policing strategy:
“The importance of what Wilson and Kelling wrote was the emphasis not only on crime committed against people but the emphasis on crimes committed against the community, neighborhoods,” Mr. Bratton said.
The above quote is from the New York Times story about James Q. Wilson at the time of his death. They say “his ‘broken windows’ theory of law enforcement laid the groundwork for crime reduction programs in New York, Los Angeles and other cities.” The full story is here.
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David Loughry
Explain that to me
I think I’ll start a new series called “Explain that to me.”
On most blocks, and in most neighborhoods, and in most cities, there are no public places to sit outside and have community. Places that are either not privately owned, or not serving some other purpose like a street or sidewalk. Explain that to me. How does that honor the integrity of what humans need?
I wrote this sitting on the ground, on a concrete sidewalk.
