To get back on track: Yes the Jasons started out as a way for young men to breakthrough the bureaucratic types and yes the Jasons has now been occupied by the likes of Nate Lewis, who was listed as third author of the Jasons report: Reducing DoD Fossil-Fuel Dependence<http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/jason/fossil.pdf> .
Nevertheless there are a number of other Jasons who are listed as contributors, as well as being listed as first and second authors of that report. All it takes is one to break ranks and others may follow. On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 7:21 PM, a.ashfield <a.ashfi...@verizon.net> wrote: > Obviously originality in physics is age related, but that is just a side > effect when it comes to the gate keepers being tiresomely set in their ways. > > > The reason for that is explained by Jerry Pournelle’s iron law. > > Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic > organization there will be two kinds of people: > > “First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the > organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational > bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at > NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet > Union collective farming administration. > > Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. > Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many > professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA > headquarters staff, etc. > > The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep > control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control > promotions within the organization.” > > ** ** > > So over time you will end up with people blocking new ideas and yes they > will be old, but only because it has taken time for them to reach that > position of power as a gatekeeper. It doesn’t follow that old people in > general will be that way. I will be eighty in a few months and was an > early supporter of LENR and tireless advocate – mainly to people who won’t > listen. It is most unlikely I will come up with the theory that > explains LENR although I might have if I were still in my 20s when I was > inventive by nature. >
