Clap Your Hands, It’s Galactic Marmoset Week

So one reads that a few of Whitewater’s town fathers, toadying to the WEDC’s public-relations machine, are crowing that the Innovation Center is part of GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK.

Global? That’s not so much. One can easily show these striving WEDC public-relations men how to take something small and make it look really big.

Behold, I give you —

These gentlemen have been thinking too small. They ludicrously want to tie the Innovation Center to the rest of the planet, do they?

Well, that’s not so much – lots of people have said they’ve been across the globe, on ships or airplanes. Even centuries ago, after all, Columbus falsely claimed he’d been all the way around the world, when he truly went no farther than the Western hemisphere.

Yet no one — no one in all human history — has ever connected the pygmy marmoset, a four-ounce, six-inch mammalian primate, to a GALACTIC celebration.

Until now.

For all the grandiosity of global claims, there’s a lack of imagination to it. The real money’s in interstellar public relations.

There’s nothing wrong with being a marmoset, even a small one like the pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea). I’d say, actually, that the genuine creature is so astonishing that it needs no exaggerated representation.

For it all, here’s one true and irrefutable claim –

Whitewater’s a beautiful town without grandiose declarations, without laughable exaggerations. What we do well cannot be made better through puffery; what we’re doing poorly cannot be made right through soft-soap.

But if others think a mere word connotes success, that word is galactic, not global.