Why So Late?
Thursday. I am to drive north to Eagle River, Wisconsin today. My cell news feed this morning featured a article by Reuters. Congress is reported to be puzzled at why the FAA waited so long to ground the Boeing 737 Max jets, after other countries and airlines acted more quickly. A 737 Max jetliner crashed in Ethopia this past Sunday. That is the second of these jets that have flown into the ground in five months.
Viewing a clip of the Presidents announcement to pull the Boeing Jets from service, it was obvious that money was the reason for the delay. The political pressure to ground the jets reached a pitch that a decision was belatedly, reluctantly, uncomfortably made. Boeing is the largest American exporter. “It’s a great, great company with a track record that is so phenomenal,” said the President.
Was that statement not the main point of his presentation? The man is a peacock. Despite what he says, he does not believe in grounding the big jets. Never a word of innocence, of straight, unbent speech from this pitchman…..
I offer these words from Nietzsche:
Where is innocence?
Where there is will to procreation.
And he who seeks to create beyond himself,
has for me the purist will.
Where is beauty?
Where I must will with my whole will;
where I will love and perish,
that an image may not remain
merely an image.Loving and perishing;
These have rhymed from eternity.
Will to love;
that is to be ready for death.
Thus do I speak to you cowards.
…
Bad air is always about you
and your occasions of State;
your lascivious thoughts,
your lies and secrets
are indeed in the air!Dare only to believe in yourselves
—in yourselves and in your instincts!
He who does not believe in himself
is always lying.
—excerpt Thus Spoke Zarathustra,
By Friedrich Nietzsche p 121 Immaculate Perception
