Unintentionally, I had a conversation with a reporter, a client, and ahem, myself I suppose while reading this take at HuffPuff: Can Obama get us to the Long View?
When do we start looking at life cycle costs? How can we get past looking at a day on Wall Street like reading our daily horoscope? How can we stop externalizing costs? How do we balance the need for budgeting up front costs with expected or even guaranteed ROIs?
Are these inevitable? Or merely stumbling blocks as we throw out the Rube Goldberg political and cultural apparati of the Baby Boom generation for the Bullet Train of Millennial progress.
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By the way, I was able to catch Dan Rather Reports on HDNet. It is clearly the best news program on television right now and has found a permanent place on my DVR rotation.
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Side note 2: I also recently watched the Behind the Scenes feature on the Wall-E dvd b/c I’m the type of nerd that watches movies with the director’s commentary on. Whenever you sit and think just how competent these movie makers might be when viewing the end product – thinking “wow, this is something that I just CAN NOT do,” and you get to see some of the work in progress, you no longer feel so inadequate. Holy crap the initial story was utter shite compared to where it finished. More like a bad episode of an otherwise mediocre show, Futurama.
Especially when they mention that if it was the end result of one artist working around the clock, it would take that person 400 years to finish the movie. And the finished product is the better for that collective effort, once again undermining Ayn Rand’s notion of the solitary genius.
This is exactly the same reason that I discuss Placemaking as places being greater than merely the sum of the parts. A building is a postcard, a snap shot. A real place is drama.
