Continuing my cartoon series, I have reached another favourite of mine: Daffy Duck. He’s a very smart duck, but maybe a bit bossy. He believes he is the head of operations, but Bugs Bunny always makes fun of him. When that happens, Daffy Duck gets angry, and when he gets angry his quacking doesn’t have an echo within all of us.
I understand Daffy’s anger and bossiness; after all everyone needs a head to guide, to plan, to drive and to protect, to invest and to invent. Daffy has to quack to be heard and get his message across, because he feels talking wouldn’t solve the issue.
In my view, Daffy Duck is wrong. He needs to calm down, sit down and discuss with everybody. What Daffy needs to remember is that sometimes the head is indeed the problem. For example, I met with someone recently who told me that in certain conflict zones, the heads of the military spent over the past few years hundreds of millions (!) on quacking.
This someone also said something very wise: “Headquarters exist so that headquarters can exist”. Daffy Duck’s quacking exists because he doesn’t want to communicate in any other useful way. We need to stop quacking and start discussing rationally, being more transparent and less bossy.
After all, while Daffy Duck was quacking, Sylvester and Tweety... (to be continued).
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