No, I didn't mean "more on the auto industry" (I used that title last week), and no, I'm not talking about Alan Moore (for once)...
This time it's Michael Moore (director of Roger and Me, Sicko, Bowling for Columbine and other films) who caught my eye. He's no stranger to one particular American auto company that was all over the news today, and he took this opportunity to write his "so long and thanks for all the fish" to General Motors. It's definitely worth a read.
One part of it immediately brought to mind traveling daughter Tammy, who's in the midst of a 6-week trip through Asia:
"Japan is celebrating the 45th anniversary of its first bullet train this year. Now they have dozens of them. Average speed: 165 mph. Average time a train is late: under 30 seconds."
Tammy wrote to us recently of that exact phenomenon, stating that you could literally watch the station clock tick over to the new minute and turn to see the train arrive. (I noticed similar, though not quite as striking, results in train stations across Europe when I was there in the 80s.)
Anyway, I love some of Moore's suggestions, though I doubt there's the political will in Washington or the intestinal fortitude within the American public for much of it. It's really too bad that a threat has to be imminent and undeniable before people will do anything about it.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
It's really too bad that a threat has to be imminent and undeniable before people will do anything about it. And even then, if you can stick your head in the sand and ignore it, that is probably the safest (and most political) route.
Post a Comment