If Two Trains…
February 2, 2009
Graph from GraphJam
When I was young and confronted with this question (teachers have learned to stop calling on me when I raise my hand) I asked if the trains were on the same track.
“Well, if they are,” I said, “we shouldn’t be wasting time calculating this. We should be stopping the damn trains.”
We are raising a nation of children who, when confronted with an imminent train wreck and the wholesale slaughter of innocent passengers, instead of sorting out methods to relay the problem to the engineers, simply spend time calculating the when-and-where of impact, and how bad it will be.
Which explains reality television, if you think about it.
