For the metaphor to be accurate...

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TB — 9/21/2013 8:19:37 PM (archived)

Engineers would have to insist on building bridges exactly like that, year after year, regardless of how many fell down.

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The Ballad of Tom Bombadude - ER - 9/21/2013 6:29:04 PM
- It's important to have people with the mind of a poet in a society. - TB - 9/21/2013 7:37:44 PM
  - Yeah, but to really screw things up properly requires the hubris of an engineer. - ER - 9/21/2013 8:09:31 PM
    - For the metaphor to be accurate... - TB - 9/21/2013 8:19:37 PM
      - No, but engineers presume they are capable of designing societies. - ER - 9/21/2013 9:00:42 PM
        
        Yeah? Point to one. - TB - 9/21/2013 9:16:34 PM
        
        Tom, you're the one around here who knows exactly how economies and governments should be organized. - ER - 9/21/2013 9:46:58 PM
        
        Heh. - TB - 9/21/2013 9:55:28 PM
        
        You answered my post before I was done editing it. Go back and re-read it. - ER - 9/21/2013 10:14:58 PM
        
        Actually... - TB - 9/21/2013 11:23:43 PM
        
        Einsteins's letter cooroborates my observations precisely. - ER - 9/22/2013 12:04:39 AM
        
        Just FYI, - TB - 9/22/2013 2:15:54 AM
        
        Not bad, considering I read that passage about a half century ago. - ER - 9/22/2013 3:12:38 AM
        
        Your views would make sense... - TB - 9/22/2013 1:55:55 AM
        
        Rubbish. - ER - 9/22/2013 3:38:15 AM
        
        ...and more rubbish - ER - 9/22/2013 12:44:12 PM
        
        "Really annoying" - TB - 9/22/2013 3:49:19 PM
        
        P.S. the ballad was pretty damn good. - TB - 9/21/2013 11:39:11 PM
        
        It should have been. I spent all damn morning working on it. - ER - 9/22/2013 12:07:50 AM

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