BBM, any idea that's not conventional wisdom comes across as eccentric. Luddites love conformity and the status quo.
Mq
PS: It's not just governments. Even in my well-paid job in BP where they paid me to come up with stuff, they all too often did nothing, but did later when public complaints or government demands or other exogenous pressures caused them to act. Now, belatedly, most of my ideas are corporate policy.
Similarly in Globalstar, they are only now adopting some of the ideas I was promoting [across the desk, in person, both in NZ and in San Jose] when they thought they were King Kong. Instead of doing it right, which would have been so simple, they destroyed $5 billion in capital.
Even right here, in SI, the wacko, eccentric, idea of a NUN was pretty much dismissed out of hand. Now though, even neocons are starting to look a little nervous and wondering whether some international scope might not be a Good Thing. On their terms of course as they KNOW the UN is a load of nonsense and the Arabian Nights, pre WWI alliance style of world is the way to run a railroad, despite the horrendous outcomes of such entangling alliances over the centuries. |
