tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post113891596769336686..comments2023-12-17T19:35:07.459-08:00Comments on Bouphonia: Self-Inflicted WoundsPhilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-1139168517593141882006-02-05T11:41:00.001-08:002006-02-05T11:41:00.001-08:00JP,Well, I think some of it was ignorance, initial...JP,<BR/><BR/>Well, I think some of it <I>was</I> ignorance, initially. The problem is, no one ever learns anything from it. Our "experts" can do incredibly stupid things, use the complexity and cost of the problems they cause as an excuse for not doing anything about them, and somehow - miraculously - come out with their basic authority intact, so that when another harebrained idea is proposed, they get the benefit of the doubt.<BR/><BR/>I guess I'm the opposite...I think ignorance is tragic, and bland indifference is demonic. But I do see your point about the difference between people you can educate and people you can't. <BR/><BR/>Oddly enough, IIRC, the US Air Force is currently the world's largest consumer of renewable energy. Which is great, until you consider what they're using it for. (I made a joke about this <A HREF="http://bouphonia.blogspot.com/2005/04/dark-green-future.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>, but it wasn't really very funny.)Philahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-1139166206074049862006-02-05T11:03:00.000-08:002006-02-05T11:03:00.000-08:00if things like this were the result of ignorance, ...if things like this were the result of ignorance, i'd be plenty angry; but of course the driving force is actually indifference, and that's more heartbreaking than infuriating. you can educate people if they're behaving as they are because they don't understand the consequences, but you can't teach anyone to care about consequences that they're already fully aware of. it seems a lot of high-ups in the military just don't have it in them to give a rat's ass.juniper pearlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09940950405860078123noreply@blogger.com