Ed: Rip up the streets? HST: With jackhammers. Ed: With jackhammers?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Radical ideas are met with literal or extreme interpretations.
- In plain terms
- Someone suggests changing things drastically and the response is just as extreme.
- What can you take from it?
- Extremes often meet other extremes.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you respond to shock?
- What counts as change?
Another view
Literal interpretations can miss metaphorical intent.
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