With capitalism, the freedoms enjoyed and the results produced are evidence enough of its merits; whereas with communism perception relies on a delicate balance of power and persuasion, convincing the public of tales and theories, and the consequences of questioning them. Propaganda is that which seeks to place in the imagination that which is not experienced in reality, whereas market forces dictate to men what little they know about what they imagine they can design. This is, perhaps, at the very core of the debate between these two schools of thought: whether society ought to be brought into conformity around designs imagined — notwithstanding the lack of evidence, foresight and basis in reality, notwithstanding the force required to pursue their ill-defined ends — or whether society ought to be permitted to function through the voluntary expressions of individuals left to entertain their own theories, to develop their own visions and explore their own imaginations, to determin...
On the sixth of June, 2013, Asiana Airlines Flight 214 departed Incheon International Airport near the capital city of Seoul, South Korea. Its destination: San Francisco International Airport. Unfortunately for the crew and the passengers of Flight 214, that destination wouldn’t come without incident. On final approach, the aircraft would come up just short of the runway, the landing gear impacting the seawall, causing the Boeing 777 to tumble and the tail section to break off after impact. For the crew of Flight 214, this would prove to be the ultimate test and, for the total 307 souls on board, the most poignant lesson in the risks posed by misunderstood technologies, the dangers of unintuitive systems operated by fallible human beings, and the extreme costs incurred in matters of human life. In terms of numbers, for Flight 214 that cost begins at the three lives lost, the 187 who were injured, and all who suffered and who carry the trauma of the incident. As is the case in virtually...