{"id":637,"date":"2010-01-08T10:54:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T14:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/?p=637"},"modified":"2010-01-08T10:56:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T14:56:24","slug":"more-proof-perception-is-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/more-proof-perception-is-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"more proof: perception is reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-638\" title=\"TSA as it's known to passengers\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/TSA-200x153.jpg?resize=200%2C153\" alt=\"TSA as it's known to passengers\" width=\"200\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/TSA.jpg?resize=200%2C153&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/TSA.jpg?resize=150%2C114&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/TSA.jpg?w=499&amp;ssl=1 499w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/blog\/cliff-kuang\/design-innovation\/what-should-tsa-logo-look\" target=\"_blank\">fast company&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> quick out of the box on the spectacle we&#8217;ve come to know as TSA, joining the growing chorus of adults clamoring for a better solution to the critical need for effective, efficient security screening techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Nitpicker and general <strong>pain in the ass Christopher Hitchens<\/strong> weighed in with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2239935\/\" target=\"_blank\">surprisingly on-target dissection<\/a> of the agency&#8217;s shortcomings in a snarky even by his acerbic standards takedown of TSA&#8217;s latest security strategy.<\/p>\n<p>By now it&#8217;s pretty clear how the government (for these purposes defined as grandstanding politicians) will react when there&#8217;s a crisis, starting with armflapping that&#8217;s quickly followed by flapdoodle. I&#8217;m simply gobsmacked that the country that won World War II, built a coast to coast interstate highway and then sent humans to the moon&#8217;s surface in machines designed with slide rules &#8211; for those unfamiliar, just google &#8211; and &#8216;computers&#8217; less powerful than the Timex Ironman watch I wear, is made to look foolish and ineffective in this paramount effort to thwart evil.<\/p>\n<p>Public relations professionals instantly recognize the need for crisis management in the wake of unsympathetic coverage of airport shutdowns and agonizing replays of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siebenthalercreative.com\/opinion\/090818_ContinentalTwitter.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Continental&#8217;s for want of a nail flying episode last summer.<\/a> We need better. We want better. We deserve better. As fastco clearly points out, &#8220;They employ people making $9\/hour to <em>defend our national security<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>fast company&#8217;s quick out of the box on the spectacle we&#8217;ve come to know as TSA, joining the growing chorus of adults clamoring for a better solution to the critical need for effective, efficient security screening techniques. Nitpicker and general pain in the ass Christopher Hitchens weighed in with a surprisingly on-target dissection of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[157,69,155,156],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-the-record","tag-government","tag-public-relations","tag-security","tag-tsa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfUeo-ah","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}