There’s an old story those of us heard in the aerospace industry. During WWII, they sought to make the B-17 more survivable to flack. They looked at where aircraft had been hit but managed to return to base, and the brass wanted to beef up the armor in those areas. It took a forward thinking engineer (the best of the best) to say those were the exact wrong places to up-armor. Aircraft were already surviving those hits. Place the armor where aircraft were getting hit and crashing. He ended up taking the flack from the brass, but he was eventually shown to be right. Also remember Apollo’s 13, a disaster averted.
It shows, at least to me, when you have the best people working, and you let them think for themselves, you get the best results…
Good story... yeah it's easy to see how merit based systems work best at the edges of human capability... harder to see it in the mushy middle, which is why the sociological Progressives always focus on the places where mistakes are harder to identify.
The vibe shift is real. People are just exhausted of feeling like they can never become better. Hollywood is a big ship and will take a long time to shift, but it’s coming.
Good post. I hope you’re right about the Obama’s but I’m skeptical.
The irony of all the DEI ‘equitable’ stuff is that it focuses outcomes instead of the journey. Sure, if you win the lottery you may end up with as much money as someone who worked their ass of building a business, but you’ve missed out on 90% of the reward, the satisfaction of having built something through sacrifice, dedication and determination. Being handed something you didn’t earn deprives people of the real joy in life. Lowering standards isn’t good for anybody.
To be clear, in no way do I think the Obama's have changed the way they think about America.... I simply think they are acknowledging the reality that their version of America doesn't sell movies or TV shows. That's enough of a win for me.
I wonder how many of those who push to relax standards, any standards at all, have successfully raised children.
From very early, especially when they learn the word NO, and its meaning, children are constantly pushing to find, and test, boundaries. If parents do not establish and enforce boundaries several things may happen. One is that the children will keep seeking to find the boundary, ANY boundary and exhibit more and more weird behaviors. A second is theat they will never learn that basically all boundaries have exceptions, and finding them can be very useful in many ways. A third is that improperly trying to break the boundaries can have unpleasant consequences.
There are others, but think about that. Having no, or few, or easy boundaries can lead to very self-destructive behaviors, because children, and then adults, are ALWAYS looking for boundaries. Unless they enounter the useful ones early they are very unlikely to be able to handle the ones later that exist, regardless of how they were established. And that is critical to the point of a scale of at least unhappiness to death.
I tend to wonder if so much of the general mental health and unhappiness found in young Leftist adults, especially women, is due to them seldom encountering boundaries to their behaviors when children,
The Blues had their brush with DEI a few years back when they installed a Black Boss. About midway through his first season the entire team stood down to bring back the previous Boss to replace him after he almost killed them all on several occasions. TINS. Look it up.
Your Excellency, once again you touch on something very important yet should be already universally accepted. To strive for excellence is the proper attitude for everyone. If one strives for excellence and fails, we are apt to be more understanding in that failure. Good stuff. Take care.
The Blue Angels and Thunderbirds are certainly worth celebrating and profiling. Let's recognize they're also US military, so not a stretch for globalist leftists to celebrate US military if it gets them political points. Let's see if they produce content about traditional-valued, American, strong male civilians.
There’s an old story those of us heard in the aerospace industry. During WWII, they sought to make the B-17 more survivable to flack. They looked at where aircraft had been hit but managed to return to base, and the brass wanted to beef up the armor in those areas. It took a forward thinking engineer (the best of the best) to say those were the exact wrong places to up-armor. Aircraft were already surviving those hits. Place the armor where aircraft were getting hit and crashing. He ended up taking the flack from the brass, but he was eventually shown to be right. Also remember Apollo’s 13, a disaster averted.
It shows, at least to me, when you have the best people working, and you let them think for themselves, you get the best results…
Good story... yeah it's easy to see how merit based systems work best at the edges of human capability... harder to see it in the mushy middle, which is why the sociological Progressives always focus on the places where mistakes are harder to identify.
The vibe shift is real. People are just exhausted of feeling like they can never become better. Hollywood is a big ship and will take a long time to shift, but it’s coming.
Totally agree, and to a large extent, helping achieve that vibe shift is what this substack has always been about.
Good post. I hope you’re right about the Obama’s but I’m skeptical.
The irony of all the DEI ‘equitable’ stuff is that it focuses outcomes instead of the journey. Sure, if you win the lottery you may end up with as much money as someone who worked their ass of building a business, but you’ve missed out on 90% of the reward, the satisfaction of having built something through sacrifice, dedication and determination. Being handed something you didn’t earn deprives people of the real joy in life. Lowering standards isn’t good for anybody.
To be clear, in no way do I think the Obama's have changed the way they think about America.... I simply think they are acknowledging the reality that their version of America doesn't sell movies or TV shows. That's enough of a win for me.
I wonder how many of those who push to relax standards, any standards at all, have successfully raised children.
From very early, especially when they learn the word NO, and its meaning, children are constantly pushing to find, and test, boundaries. If parents do not establish and enforce boundaries several things may happen. One is that the children will keep seeking to find the boundary, ANY boundary and exhibit more and more weird behaviors. A second is theat they will never learn that basically all boundaries have exceptions, and finding them can be very useful in many ways. A third is that improperly trying to break the boundaries can have unpleasant consequences.
There are others, but think about that. Having no, or few, or easy boundaries can lead to very self-destructive behaviors, because children, and then adults, are ALWAYS looking for boundaries. Unless they enounter the useful ones early they are very unlikely to be able to handle the ones later that exist, regardless of how they were established. And that is critical to the point of a scale of at least unhappiness to death.
I tend to wonder if so much of the general mental health and unhappiness found in young Leftist adults, especially women, is due to them seldom encountering boundaries to their behaviors when children,
Good question, but I would point out that one of the many things plaguing America right now is a crisis of bad parenting.
The Blues had their brush with DEI a few years back when they installed a Black Boss. About midway through his first season the entire team stood down to bring back the previous Boss to replace him after he almost killed them all on several occasions. TINS. Look it up.
Interesting… sorta proves the theory though, no?
Your Excellency, once again you touch on something very important yet should be already universally accepted. To strive for excellence is the proper attitude for everyone. If one strives for excellence and fails, we are apt to be more understanding in that failure. Good stuff. Take care.
The Blue Angels and Thunderbirds are certainly worth celebrating and profiling. Let's recognize they're also US military, so not a stretch for globalist leftists to celebrate US military if it gets them political points. Let's see if they produce content about traditional-valued, American, strong male civilians.
Baby steps