Wednesday in the Age of Reason-Munchausen (1988)

Various incarnations of the reported end of the Earth come in a variety of forms:

• Nibiru.
• Planet X.
• The Mayan calendar apocalypse.
• The rapture.
• A new great flood.
• An unstoppable fire.
• A biblical prophesy.
• A supervolcano.
• Or a rogue asteroid or comet slamming into us.

A decision by the same political class and same mindset, and not a few of the same individuals, who thought that Rail was a ‘good idea’.

Sometimes doing nothing is the smarter move. But this political class and mindset has been doing ‘something’ since it thought the Alawai was ‘good idea’; and the SupaDupa Ferry; and the design of the H1. It doesn’t execute all its bad ideas, for example Ski Mauna Kea wasn’t done, but the list of failed, expensive, bad ideas [including what will in the not distant future be the Venice of the Pacific] Waikiki keeps growing. The old Stadium was poorly sited, poorly designed, poorly constructed, poorly operated, poorly maintained. It was not an investment, but an ‘in-waste-ment’.