<There is nothing simpler than to oppose someone else's course of action without burdening yourself with having to offer an alternative one of your own.. >
Sitting around bored during never-ending Xmas school holidays [6 or 7 weeks of them] aged about 10 or 12, we'd make it that we'd come up with an idea and that was it unless somebody came up with a better idea. It was an interative process to come up with the best idea for what to do.
Knocking somebody else's idea is always easy and akin to kicking over a sandcastle. Helping make it work is somewhat more difficult. Finding some blemish is usually used as an excuse to dismiss the whole thing, the real intent being to dismiss, not to actually conduct a serious understanding of what's proposed to see if it makes sense and to sense if any defects can be corrected.
I shall mention the NUN here, for example.
It fascinates me how I can contemplate something for a long time, even years, and somebody can give barely a moment's consideration before dismissing it out of hand. Their rationale is rarely persuasive to me, as I've usually already thought of what they say and the difficulty doesn't seem insuperable.
I put it down to ego, NIH syndrome, dominance behaviour, preference for the familiar, the status quo, present privilege, and the like. Governments are good at suppressing anything new. So are most people.
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