Pilot error

 

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Putin I mentioned in a previous blog is going to be hard to handle. He is an intelligence agent which means his heart is his country, when he's not paying off the people that do work for him. At some point, he changed from being a behemoth gangster to caring about his people, I imagine. So in like fashion he must have divined that everyone next to him, was unlike him. They must be in it for the money. But that doesn't ring so true with the leader of Ukraine being a monied tyrant willing to physically injure protesters. And on the off chance that Putin sent gangsters to attack the police in guise of peaceful protesters, I reserve judgment.

But it is the height of arrogance to believe the world needs some other country to join him. And yet there is nothing to do when you're at the top is there? You need something besides a super bowl ring to pass the time... and so do your followers. As it happens, having a standing army is quite expensive when it does nothing.

The plane that is missing brings back stories of UFOs and Bermuda Triangles. When things disappear without a trace, it's time to newfangle a legend, perhaps of sea monsters and sirens that call ships to their doom... despite all the gold that went missing that noone seems to mention in the legend.

Now let's try to imagine what happened. Imagine I'm a passenger on this flight. I'm not anyone special but I know there's something's wrong with the plane. Can I approach the cockpit? Should I, being MALE and all and can expect squat help from women who are probably poking me with their "you coward" looks, risk my life?  Not likely.   It would take fully 3 people and one at a time they would have to sacrifice themselves, merely to weaken some man trained with a weapon of some sort. In support of a better design, I would not only make access to the cockpit easier to access, I would put traps in there that only the pilots know about.

This is a result of a paradigm shift I hope you realize. In former days pilots were akin to the CAPTAINS of a ship. They flouted their wealth like they flouted their knowledge of their crafts and their trade. They walked into the airport bars knowing full well NOONE would question their $100 tip or the "questionable" conversations they had with various women at the bar. For them, life was one of convenience because of the trust and people they commanded as well as the MONEY.

But times have changed haven't they?

Since the strike of the Air Traffic Controllers, and Reagan's utter dismissal of their rights to negotiate higher wages, it was time to make lower ALL the workers' wages... including the Captain's. And like they do in Wall Street, the executives were soon shaking hands, agreeing things about other people's worth, and making money doing nothing but milling information. Congratulations GREAT leaders of corporations, you mighty RISK TAKERS, you JOB creators... bah.

Executives deserve no respect. Salesmen all. In fact it would be a dutiful project to begin to limit their terms as we do with our president. Remember when a company's vision statement lended it's workers a sense of purpose that had to be seen to it's dreary end. "To provide the BEST service in the credit card industry" or some such.

Now EVERY vision statement should read "to be bought out by the most VINDICTIVE and MARGINALIZED members of society not ACTUALLY in jail and then to be sold to similar degenerates whose highest purpose has never amounted to more than checking the newspaper for the latest numbers". Why? Because that is what you can expect to happen to your company once it's "successful".

Way back there I was talking about CAPTAINS of planes. The truth is most of them don't make what they used to. I remember being told that an air traffic controller would command 70k or more and that it was considered a government employee. Is that where it is today? No. In one news story I read that the person FLYING the plane after a crash was getting 30k. 30k to FLY a plane filled with 200 people. That's just a disgrace. It's no small stretch to imagine the CORPORATIONS also saving money on replacement parts and on safety checks and even on ground people and say... TIRES. And with CAPTAINS now commanding squat attention from bartenders and even their stewardesses, it's no wonder NOONE knows what is missing from a plane that has no members of any import to the ground crew and service people. Those people there at the airport know something but it's obvious they don't respect the crew enough, to say anything.

You see, that top money that was being paid to CAPTAINS to his crew and to airport workers, was necessary to keep the connections flowing from the service industry all the way up to the Captain and beyond to the controllers and leadership of the airport or airports. But it's gotten weak hasn't it? As the money slides off the top captain, so it does to the service people in the airport and then on to the regular people of the airport. And in the event of a BREAK like this one, noone knows or CARES about those lost lives that obviously lead to SERIOUS repercussions for whoever let's slip the massive brouhaha that this was.

And that's the problem with disparate income levels. The connection to the top is more strained. People have less regard for the worthless lives at the bottom. People at the bottom have less regard for "getting involved" or being "collateral damage" in the antics of rich people claiming insurance or offing the competition by treating commoner's life as less valuable. And as this separation continues, and it's obvious to all that the kings have TRULY no regard for people, people will object, and they will do it FAR TOO LATE to be of any use in removing these icons of APERY.

We the people have to get this right. We are on a plane and we know it's being steered away from the path to prosperity for all, and we have to negotiate "the impossible" from the pilots.

Now let's take this little paradigm shift to Russia. Putin is not going to budge. It's like that scene from Star Trek TNG where Jellico lays it on the line for Riker and the Counselor, "he is not going to budge, and we are NOT going to give in to his demands" or maybe let's take the scene from Kill Bill pt 1 "that woman deserves her revenge, and we deserve to die. Or maybe not. So, we'll just... see."

The answer to this impasse is in trusting our intelligence workers like they did in Star Trek, to figure out a way to TRAP them into doing something rash that is UNACCEPTABLE to the world. I wish them luck.

But you can see how this is an impossible dream, to stop an act of selfishness that 100 million people are behind. Can we really stop them and not listen to them cry IRAQ in our ear? Moreover, is there a single soldier that is going to risk their lives to defend the selfish mercenaries in power at the various Republican conventions that are promulgating their "cut food stamps" rhetoric?

And what do you think is going to happen when the first senator suggests we cut Veteran's Benefits back home?

Yeah, it's gonna be a hard sell for us to go to war knowing what we know, but we gotta find a way to do it.  All revolutions are MUCH smaller... the SOONER they occur.