04-16-2015, 04:43 AM
"the medium is the message."
In this case the medium got a few minutes of the nation's attention span, and the message has a subtext to the effect that we're not safer despite all the post-9/11 spending and new "security procedures".
This guy was basically willing to die for something he believed in, and that's just awesome.
Perhaps he was "allowed" to succeed so the FAA could continue to justify their (lack of) domestic drone policy. The security sector can certainly regurgitate this "problem" with lots of hand-wringing on Faux News.
In any case, the old "going postal" has been elevated -- hopefully more demonstrations like this will see a redefinition of the term.
In this case the medium got a few minutes of the nation's attention span, and the message has a subtext to the effect that we're not safer despite all the post-9/11 spending and new "security procedures".
This guy was basically willing to die for something he believed in, and that's just awesome.
Perhaps he was "allowed" to succeed so the FAA could continue to justify their (lack of) domestic drone policy. The security sector can certainly regurgitate this "problem" with lots of hand-wringing on Faux News.
In any case, the old "going postal" has been elevated -- hopefully more demonstrations like this will see a redefinition of the term.