There was a fella that wanted to build the tallest building in the city.

"But I have a better approach to building than most," he said to
himself. "I'm going to start at the top first!"
And so he built the television aerial first.
His idea was to put the aerial up in the air, let go, and then stick
bricks under it really quickly to hold it up, and work his way down
until the last bricks were tucked neatly on the ground.

This did not work so well on his first attempt.

A construction worker on the street saw the aerial crash to the ground
and drawled, "Mightn't it be a touch better to start at the bottom and
work your way up?"

The fella was undaunted. "I'll have those bricks eventually! I don't
have the time to do things the conventional way! If I did it your way,
it would take me forever to get the aerial complete."

So he tried it again, shoveling even more bricks under the aerial.
Indeed, he was in such a hurry that the bricks didn't line up well, and
when the whole contraption fell to the ground again, it made more noise
and dust this time.

"I know!" he exclaimed "I'll get help, and I'll have everyone on the
street shove bricks under. If I can get enough bricks shoved under at
once, the building will stand."

And so he recruited all comers to jam a brick under. Unfortunately,
some didn't know the first thing about brick-laying, and some jammed in
sandbags rather than bricks, and more than once two people were trying
to shove different bricks into the same spot.

This time, before it fell, spectators caught a brief glimpse of a huge,
horrible monstrosity, bearing no resemblance to a structure at all. But
collapse it did, under its own terrible, deformed weight.

"Do you know the first thing about brick-laying or construction?" asked
the construction worker on the sidewalk.

"I don't have to!" was the reply. "Everyone else here knows. All I have
to do is get them to put it together for me. But they need to see my
VISION for the building!"

"That ain't no way to build a building, friend," the construction
worker said, spitting on the ground.

"I don't see why," said the ambitious but imprudent fella, "It seems to
be working just fine so far."

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