Hmmm. A very long way from shutter speed requirements but well said.
Chuck Norcutt
Moose wrote:
> Jan Steinman wrote:
>> :::: The record is clear that left to their own devices, the
>> automobile manufacturers lack the wisdom or the will or both to
>> switch decisively to the production of inexpensive, compact, energy-
>> saving cars appropriate to our present needs. -- Donald E. Weeden,
>> 1975 ::::
>>
> Some of your tag quotes are getting to long for my short attention span
> for such things. And I've certainly missed several in threads I've not read.
>
> This one interests me, as it assumes an economic and political system
> that has never existed, especially in the US. That is, one in which
> wisdom and the will to use it are in charge*. Certainly there are and
> have been systems where what is marketed as wisdom is imposed on the
> populace, often by force. Un-self interested and non-dogmatic wisdom?
> Nah. (Yes, I did study international economics at Berkeley, but this
> opinion is my own.)
>
> Those few US auto makers of the past (this is an old quote) who tried
> what he advocated either failed or mended their ways.
>
> Those in trouble now due, but only partially, to excess dependence on
> large, fuel inefficient vehicles ,are in trouble as a result of a
> misreading of the marketplace as it has changed.
>
> The economic system under which those automakers operated and operate
> puts wisdom and will in the hands of the public. Castigating them for
> playing the hand they are dealt is at least disingenuous, if not simply
> an outright lie told for political purposes..
>
> Mr. Weeden, if he were being honest and not practicing demagoguery,
> should have either castigated the wisdom and will of the people or come
> right out and said that he would prefer a form of state socialism. That
> is what is required for government and industry to limit the choices in
> the marketplace to items deemed to be responsible and appropriate, by
> whatever political, environmental, social, religious, etc. standards are
> in place at the time. In fact, don't I recall a quote by il duce on that
> very point, extolling fascism as the perfect combination of government
> and industry, at the end of more than one of your posts?
>
> And no, I am not advocating for or against any particular form of
> economic or political organization, just pointing out when something is
> logically inconsistent or worse, and probably disingenuous.
>
> If you, Jan, want people who don't already agree with you to consider
> your positions, you should vet the stuff you quote to avoid the
> obviously absurd.
>
> Moose - apparently shooting for at least his contrarian, if not
> curmudgeon, merit badge.
>
> * OK, maybe in some long ago benevolent dictatorships. Theoretically
> enough of a possibility to be worthy of discussion, but not here and now.
>
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