Motivational Posters of Green Acres (Part III of an occasional series.)

In a previous post, we discussed a motivational poster featuring the Great Wall of China. As you’ll recall, the poster’s message is that when many people work together, they can achieve remarkable things (such as building the Wall.)

Proceeding down the hallway a few feet and through a door, one encounters the next motivational poster. This one displays an idyllic, soft-focus photograph of a wooden bridge, such as you might find in a Japanese garden. The text below reads:

C O M M U N I C A T I O N
Build bridges, not walls

I must admit that even with my advanced cynicism-detection, the humor of this whole arrangement escaped me for over a year. Now that I see it, though, I crack up almost every time I pass down the hallway. Who arranged the posters this way? Was it just random, or was there wicked genius at work? We may never know.