It’s easy to say we can’t do something, but that’s just a kind of mental paralysis created out of misinformed Rabble.
Among other things, The Rabble said no one will ever want to carry around 15 hours worth of music in their pocket; eat green-colored coconut soup; or read about arcane business mythologies from a crazy-haired Canadian. And, yet here we are now listening to our iPods, eating our thai green curries and reading our books by Malcolm Gladwell.
That doesn’t mean the Rabble has gone away, it just means that it’s moved onto something else to doubt. The Rabble is relentless in their ways because, remember, The Rabble is responsible to nothing but itself. The Rabble tends to dismiss good ideas because The Rabble doesn’t know what one is. Cable Propelled Transit, cable cars, urban gondolas, whatever you want to call it is not popular amongst The Rabble, and that’s okay. Cable doesn’t need The Rabble.
Tune out The Rabble. You’ll accomplish more if you do.
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I’d like to see a citation for that one, and I’d like to repeat Carl Sagan’s famous punchline: “They also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
Yeah, I don’t think such a citation exists, Eric :). As for Bozo the Clown, I think I’ll take that as a compliment . . . Hmm?