INDUSTRY INFLUENCERS
To Hoard or Not to Hoard By Chr i s LeDoux
A t this moment we are all undergoing a col- lective trauma. I’m not talking about your grandfather’s trauma on the beaches of Normandy or the jungles of Cambodia, but our lives as we know them have been thrown into disarray. The pandemic is no joke, and as Americans we get a certain cognitive dis- sonance dealing with adversaries that are impervious to hollow point rounds. Humans generally adapt and deal with changes to our environment rather well though. Our conscious mind stays operational to maintain the foundation on our hierarchy of needs, while the subconscious is processing the emotional implications of the trauma in the background. The emotional mechanisms that we create to survive in any given environment become personality traits if utilized for a long enough time (hence why crime creates more crime, abuse victims often become abuser…etc.). As you go through this unique period, try to pay attention. Examine the mechanisms you are building to cope with this abrupt modification to your routine. Your conscious mind might want to hoard toilet paper (I mean what the hell is that? Not one post-apocalyptic writer predicted this), but pausing for a moment to think about how the choices you are making can affect the collective is worth pursuing. Whether it be your attitude on treating those around you or starting to think that maybe this whole not socializing thing is a bit heavy handed, stop and ponder about the long-term implications. The time machine works both ways, and the past is as accessible as the future. If you travel back on this period, you want to be proud of the impact that you made during a crisis. I mean I get it, I want nothing more than to sit at Mr. C’s (my local dive), stuff a burger in my face, drink half a bottle of whiskey, and then explain to a complete stranger the majesty of the 2013 Seahawks. It will come. Like my choices in the past, the myopic path was not the proper one. When I think of the multitude of myopic choices I have made, the results were generally less than ideal; (I was a terrible daytrader). Heroes are not realized when you are up by forty points in the 4th quarter, but they appear at the end of the second act when the stress has reached a peak and all appears to be lost. These times of crisis are also times of metamorphosis. This chrysalis can be an opportunity to
Chris LeDoux
All of us have a chance to come together in this time and make choices that we can look through our time machine someday to be proud of.
around so that our people have a paycheck and some sense of certainty in an uncertain world. All of us will be remembered for how we operated during this period whether positive or otherwise. Like any good story, a person’s reaction to an obstacle is what reveals their character. All of us have a chance to come together in this time and make choices that we can look through our time machine someday to be proud of. None of us will be perfect, but that isn’t the goal. The goal is to accumulate as much toilet paper as humanly possible so that our neighbors are stuck using leaves.
evolve rapidly because of the conscious choices we decide to make (stemming from unconscious data). What this means to each person will be unique. As a father to young children and a husband to a reasonably sane wife, I have to provide an emotional steadiness my family can lean on as a mechanism to deal with this trauma. Work wise, running a VFX company in the film business, it means my partners and I are doing everything we can to keep people safely employed while our sector takes an economic beating. For example, we started our work from home system six weeks ago (thank God for my brother the systems genius and this fantastic Zero Client tech). Every day we are doing whatever is possible to make sure we have enough work to spread
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