Friends and enemies alike have accused me of seeing everything in this world in terms of black or white, yes or no, on or off, right or wrong. That assessment, while probably fair in many ways, misses some of the subtlety that makes me “me”. Enter the Venn diagram…
These things are beautiful, and they allow me to better explain how I see things in life by defining that area of overlap between the black and the white, the yes and the no, the on and the off, and even between right and wrong. My brain creates these things all the time. I usually just giggle at them and let the thought pass, but an example jumped out at me today that I could not pass up the opportunity to share.
There is one key thing wrong with the photograph below. I am not talking about composition of the subject matter, the brightness/contrast ratio, or the drab colors it contains, either.
To best describe what is wrong, refer to the snappy Venn diagram I made to describe the scene:
Set A:
Men who avoid touching the feces- and urine-laden pull handle on the restroom door with their bare hands by using paper towels to open said door.Set B:
Men who leave the restroom with their hands still wet.Set A∩B:
Men who are too lazy/busy/cool/assholey to bother getting their used paper towel into the conveniently-placed waste receptacle and expect someone else to do it for them.
Conclusions?
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Not all men are pigs, but those who are give the rest of us a bad name and really piss me smooth off.
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Venn diagrams rule.
Venn-diagrammer…