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Hi,
I could not find anyone better to direct this post at---. Those I missed---my apologies.
So---I got in my car today around 10 am and was driving around looking at some properties---the radio was set to 91.9 FM and the discussion was about threats---threat perception---people who can foresee threats---the " cassandras "---the speaker was Richard A Clarke.
I listened to him---and I cracked up laughing---laughing at someone higher up talking what I have been talking about for over 11 years over here---and tearful at not being able to push my analysis and thoughts to the highest level in pakistan for the welfare of pakistan.
Raichard talked about Cassandras---and searching for Cassandras for close to an hour---.
The great Pakistani tragedy is---that the powers that are---they don't listen to anyone---they firmly believe that unless they did not come up with it---it does not exist. Because there is no price tag attached to it---unless you cut their heads off for intentionally ignoring the obvious---they won't change.
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/05/23/cautioning-against-catastrophe
Here is anexcert from his book and you can also click on the link to read a little more
"
Chapter 1
Cassandra: From Myth to Reality
T
here are people among us who can see the future.Often they clamor for our attention, and just as often theyare ignored. We are right to discount most soothsayers, but hor-rible things happen when accurate warnings of specific disasters gounheeded. People die because we fail to distinguish the prophet fromthe charlatan.This book tries to find those rare people who see the future, whohave accurate visions of looming disasters.Cassandra was a beautiful princess of Troy, cursed by the god Apollo. He gave her the ability to see impending doom, but the in-ability to persuade anyone to believe her. Her ability to pierce thebarriers of space and time to see the future showed her the fiery fallof her beloved city, but the people of Troy ridiculed and disregardedher. She descended into madness and ultimately became one of thevictims of the tragedy she foretold. Are there Cassandras among us today, warning of ticking disas-ters, whose predictions fall on deaf ears? Is it possible to figure outwho these seers are? Can we cut through the false warnings to tune in "
Hi,
I could not find anyone better to direct this post at---. Those I missed---my apologies.
So---I got in my car today around 10 am and was driving around looking at some properties---the radio was set to 91.9 FM and the discussion was about threats---threat perception---people who can foresee threats---the " cassandras "---the speaker was Richard A Clarke.
I listened to him---and I cracked up laughing---laughing at someone higher up talking what I have been talking about for over 11 years over here---and tearful at not being able to push my analysis and thoughts to the highest level in pakistan for the welfare of pakistan.
Raichard talked about Cassandras---and searching for Cassandras for close to an hour---.
The great Pakistani tragedy is---that the powers that are---they don't listen to anyone---they firmly believe that unless they did not come up with it---it does not exist. Because there is no price tag attached to it---unless you cut their heads off for intentionally ignoring the obvious---they won't change.
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/05/23/cautioning-against-catastrophe
Here is anexcert from his book and you can also click on the link to read a little more
"
Chapter 1
Cassandra: From Myth to Reality
T
here are people among us who can see the future.Often they clamor for our attention, and just as often theyare ignored. We are right to discount most soothsayers, but hor-rible things happen when accurate warnings of specific disasters gounheeded. People die because we fail to distinguish the prophet fromthe charlatan.This book tries to find those rare people who see the future, whohave accurate visions of looming disasters.Cassandra was a beautiful princess of Troy, cursed by the god Apollo. He gave her the ability to see impending doom, but the in-ability to persuade anyone to believe her. Her ability to pierce thebarriers of space and time to see the future showed her the fiery fallof her beloved city, but the people of Troy ridiculed and disregardedher. She descended into madness and ultimately became one of thevictims of the tragedy she foretold. Are there Cassandras among us today, warning of ticking disas-ters, whose predictions fall on deaf ears? Is it possible to figure outwho these seers are? Can we cut through the false warnings to tune in "
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