A View From the Edge

Both business and societies need to move away from individual thinking, planning and control toward group think, supply and action.

As you might imagine, the flying aviation world is hurting. Planes are stored — not only those 737 Max planes but a whole host of half-built and grounded airliners — and engines are being stored. Currently, almost 38,000 jet engines are idle and being stored… engines that need weekly servicing even if they are not flying.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said the other day that he wanted the relationship with our adversaries to be one of competition, not one of conflict. In essence, that’s what the Cold War was with the USSR — a battlefield of ability not implementation.

So far, the total relief money allocated by the federal government in respect of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis is $2,000,000,000,000. That’s a 2 with 12 zeroes. And there’s more to come.

All across America, many corporations — especially those staffed with well-paid lawyers — have seen an opportunity not to pay suppliers, not to honor contracts or, simply, to invoke a delay of indeterminate length to the performance of contractual responsibilities. How?

The truth will always come out. Or so we always thought. Human beings, raised on a diet of disparate cultures, different ethics and moral evaluation (often from unique religions), always need time to adjust to one another. We all need time to talk.

The word liberal means open-minded, open-handed, generous. But in today’s America it is either a compliment meaning you feel for a more common purpose rather than the self or it can be used as a derogatory statement meaning you are artsy, or against the state, the flag and a host of other neo-conservative values.

‘The best way to get beaten up professionally is to claim you have a pre-Clovis site,” said Michael Collins, U. of Texas.