Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Old America

Clarity. Clear definition of a problem before you devise a solution. Clear enumeration of instructions before you start scheduling tasks. Clear statement of objectives before you start evaluating how well you did on those tasks that implemented the solution to the problem that you never tried to understand in the first place. We need more clarity.

Rambling has replaced coherence. Spin and innuendo substitute for fact. Can-do culture guides us rather than competence. And we take no responsibility for the messes of our muddled minds.

So a Space Shuttle is launched well outside it's temperature range and explodes in flight. And a bridge falls down. And dikes get breached. And an oil tanker captained by someone who was known to be a drunk runs aground, oil gushing forth, destroying fisheries and blighting seashores for many decades to come. And the economy is brought to its knees by exposure of the charade of complex investment stratagems that no one understood but everyone was sure were a sure thing.

We don't think clearly, anymore. It's not what we get paid to do. We can't think clearly, anymore. We don't know how.

This is the beginning of Old America. Maybe it's someone else's turn, now.


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