The Paradox of Gated Communities

Many folks equate humor to irony and paradoxes, and that makes sense, it also makes jokes and comedy rather easy to remember, as those sorts of things seem to imprint well in our minds. Try this sometime, ask you go through the day watch for paradoxes. What sort of Paradoxes, you ask – well, anything and everything that appears to be a paradox. Not long ago, I was sitting in Starbucks and reading one of Nesbitt’s books; Global Paradox. Someone noticed this and we got into a conversation on the topic.

Then a funny thing happened about a week later, I was online talking to an acquaintance about Paradoxes, she asked if I noticed many paradoxes? Oh, I see paradoxes every day, I see irony where ever I look, I see plays on words when I write, and read, and I love to read the tricky talented “title” writers daily creations on the headlines of all the stories in the newspapers.

Here is one for you. I live in a gated community, specifically to prevent crime. But the criminals know this and target these areas; because once they are in they have all the time in the world to do their thievery while no one pays them any mind. And if and when we catch those criminals, what do we do with them? We cuff them and stuff them, and imprison them where? In Gated Communities – Go Figure!

As John Nesbitt points out in Global Paradox, a lot of what we believe and see, or even read in the newspaper or view on TV is full of contradictions, irony, and paradoxes. Why not think about this during the week and see if you find as many as I do in the next 7-days. Please consider all this.

By: Lance Winslow

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