“Oh, the jobs people work at! Out west near
Hawtch-Hawtch there's a Hawtch-Hawtcher bee watcher, his job is to watch. Is to
keep both his eyes on the lazy town bee, a bee that is watched will work harder
you see. So he watched and he watched, but in spite of his watch that bee
didn't work any harder not mawtch. So then somebody said "Our old
bee-watching man just isn't bee watching as hard as he can, he ought to be
watched by another Hawtch-Hawtcher! The thing that we need is a
bee-watcher-watcher!". Well, the bee-watcher-watcher watched the bee-watcher.
He didn't watch well so another Hawtch-Hawtcher had to come in as a
watch-watcher-watcher! And now all the Hawtchers who live in Hawtch-Hawtch are
watching on watch watcher watchering watch, watch watching the watcher who's
watching that bee. You're not a Hawtch-Watcher you're lucky you see!”
Dr. Seuss
Prescient view of social media?
Re-worded for social media:
“Oh, the jobs people work at! On the internet, in Twit-ville there’s a Twittery-Twit
his job is to thumb. He must keep both
thumbs on his I phone so that no one will say anything untoward on any
day. So he thumbed and he thumbed but in
spite of his thumbing, people kept saying stuff that didn’t need saying. So
then somebody said, “our Twittery-Twit just isn’t thumbing as hard as he can,
he ought to be thumbed by another Twittery-Twit. We need another Twittery-Twitter to thumb even
more.” So the Twittery-Twitter thumbed
about the Twittery-Twit but people kept saying stuff that didn’t need
saying. Now all the Twittery-Twits in
Twitville are thumbing, thumbing about the thumbers who thumbed not politely,
saying stuff that didn’t need saying. If
you’re not a Twittery-Twitter, you’re lucky, you see.
