Re: PS3 Uses 5x more Electricity than Fridge [Not true]
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:57 am
Yes, the Catholic Church apologized to Gallileo a good many years after Sputnik failed to crash into "the sky, which separates Heaven from Earth" -- and the Church of England has apologized to Darwin a good many years after DNA was discovered. (This will cause some problems for the Creationists, but there are a lot of less-vocal Christians who have accepted evolution for a long time.)
People desire certainty and that makes new ideas difficult to accept. We can poke fun at "the church" where some of those people still see the world in different terms than we do, but we are just blind in other areas and we're never able to see our own blindness. Stockholders and CEOs are so focused on reporting a profitable quarter four times a year that they're unable to look at the big picture. US automakers were blind to what might happen if the world suddenly stopped buying Hummers. Bankers were blind to the dangers of high-risk mortgages and now they're stuck with "toxic assets" Politicians have been so focused on getting reelected (i.e.- no tax increases) that they failed to notice the deterioration of our roads, bridges, schools, etc. Now we've we elected a president who decided that the solution to all our problems were new jobs, and infrastructure provided a logical way to create jobs. The Opposition is busy pointing out that he's blind to how to pay for it.
Some folks (let's call them "anti-green" which fits within the topic we're now discussing) are busy pointing out our blindness. We can argue with them over the details, but unless we listen carefully and accept that their viewpoint has some merits, too, we're only refusing to accept our own blindness.
People desire certainty and that makes new ideas difficult to accept. We can poke fun at "the church" where some of those people still see the world in different terms than we do, but we are just blind in other areas and we're never able to see our own blindness. Stockholders and CEOs are so focused on reporting a profitable quarter four times a year that they're unable to look at the big picture. US automakers were blind to what might happen if the world suddenly stopped buying Hummers. Bankers were blind to the dangers of high-risk mortgages and now they're stuck with "toxic assets" Politicians have been so focused on getting reelected (i.e.- no tax increases) that they failed to notice the deterioration of our roads, bridges, schools, etc. Now we've we elected a president who decided that the solution to all our problems were new jobs, and infrastructure provided a logical way to create jobs. The Opposition is busy pointing out that he's blind to how to pay for it.
Some folks (let's call them "anti-green" which fits within the topic we're now discussing) are busy pointing out our blindness. We can argue with them over the details, but unless we listen carefully and accept that their viewpoint has some merits, too, we're only refusing to accept our own blindness.
