Re: Your Brains
- SCALZI: Six Sigma was, I think for me, sort of like horoscopes were for the 70s.
- COULTON: Right.
- SCALZI: You know, it’s just a word that people threw out there, and they thought it meant something. It’s like, “Oh, you’re doing the Six Sigma, too? We should sleep together.”
- COULTON: Yeah. And it’s funny how the trappings of that kind of speech, they take over. Even because it’s a language. It’s a jargon, but it’s also quintessentially bad writing.
- SCALZI: Yes.
- COULTON: When you transcribe what people are saying to each other in offices, there are so many clauses that you should just cross out and throw away and never use again, and yet people continue to use them because it’s the language. It’s how we speak to one another in that environment.
- SCALZI: It’s the language, it’s sort of like, here is the ritual, you know.
- COULTON: Right.
- SCALZI: And we’re going to through this ritual. It’s stupid, but we all know it. We all know when to stand. We all know when to sit. Let’s go ahead and “prioritize” and “think outside the box” and “work together as a team” and just, you know, yes. So, I think the whole point of you making that a setting for a zombie — it just made perfect sense for everybody, right?
