A few tangential thoughts on the Lutz controversy. I would caution us all from arriving at too many stead-fast opinions as to the real motivations behind any individual without first questioning them face-to-face. We're all guilty of performing pop-psyche analysis on the motivations of others and, subsequently, performing extrapolations on that analysis as to how their underlying motivations are likely affecting the machinations of multi-million/billion dollar corporations for which they are in charge of running. I'm just as guilty as the rest for having performed these very transgressions.
I don't know Lutz. I've never talked to him. I'm not in a position to analyze his motivations publicly. One of the few bits of wisdom I've seem to have acquired as I've gotten older is a realization that the vast majority personal opinions I've stuffed into my wet-wear are just that: personal opinions. I think I became slightly wiser one fateful day (a day that unfortunately only seems to have been recently) when I came to the astonishing revelation as to what do any of my personal opinions have anything to do with what's really going on in the world. All I really know is what's going on in my little world, and even then, I'm not so sure about that. But that's ok. Having personal opinions about this and that subject did not seem to make me any more of a productive intelligent human being. Possessing opinions inevitably caused me to consume huge amounts of personal resources and energy in the task of defending all those personal opinions I had acquired because sooner or later I would come up against some dumb jerk who didn't agree with my personal opinions, and then it was off to the races again. Granted, there are many of us who live for the thrill of the race, and the stadiums always seem to be full of spectators. But for me, all it seemed to do was make me more opinionated. OTOH, has anyone spoken to Mrs. Lutz recently? ;-) Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.Zazzoe.com/orionworks
