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tragedies of our time and back to the restrictive world of engineering
lingua franca. It is an insidious way to suppress the truth, masked as a
way to actually uncover the truth.

This is so far past the engineering world with its lexicon, its arcane acronyms, and its processes. That whole world fell apart as the forces of human greed, fear, hubris and hope tore asunder the thin veil of
civilization that tells us ``if we just follow the rules, everything will be all right.'' For a select few, the rules were inconvenient to their
financial needs. And so bugger the rules. 340+ people are dead and their families are grieving.

Because it's not an engineering story, I deliberately took the approach of using informal terms and a non-engineering approach to describing what looks like an engineering failure on its surface but is instead a tragedy,
consisting of villains, victims and (hopefully) heroes. I suspect that
PBL's objections to my article, like others that I have received from the engineering community, reflect a kind of professional visceral pain that
their profession had such a large and central role in the execution of this catastrophe. And because of that pain, they are lashing out as shame turns
to anger.

'Tis better to fail-high, or fail low. That is not the question.

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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:11:11 -0800
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