I refer to it as “the new standard of excellence”. It was brought on partly by the computer age. A whole generation got to accept that things could randomly and mysteriously at any point in time give up the ghost and fail. And after a while that becomes “normal”. AKA the computer glitch. It is just accepted as “normal”. For anything. The blue screen of death... “normal”. Reboot your computer from some fatal error.... “normal”.
Only problem is...is, it's.... well, it's... “normal”. You can't get away from it. It's normal for Ford, normal for GM, normal for Microsoft, normal for IBM, normal for GE, normal for any aspect of society.
The new (lower) standard of excellence is driven by higher profits. Did anybody stop buying computers because they crashed? No. It was normal, and they are too busy working on the next new model to waste time fixing something that is by now considered “normal”. Apply the new standard to a field like aviation, though, and people die.
Sometimes the hard part is knowing when you must “become one” with the normal, and when not to.
BTW -Fusion; nice!– an awesomely styled car, a la Aston Martin. Nice choice IMHO; BIG bang for the buck on that one. Definitely not a normal auto.
OK, sorry, has nothing to do with the thread topic or BWY to me... so I'll go away now.
- B.
