Dear Editor
Q: What do the following all have in common:
b) Donald Trump
b) ISIS
c) Kinder Morgan TMX pipeline
A: They all make presumptive and premature claims to victory.
Witness the title of Kinder Morgan president Ian Anderson’s upcoming Nov. 3 talk to the Vancouver Board of Trade: “Pipeline Success: Getting to Yes Takes a Willingness to Listen and Learn.”
Despite exuberant chest-thumping and millions of dollars in persuasive advertising, claiming success in all these cases, fortunately, does not equate to having achieved success.
Perhaps they are more accurately examples of Zeno’s paradox: How to get progressively closer to ‘Yes’ without actually ever getting there.
B. Hechter, Burnaby
